Projecting games from my desktop PC to my TV

[Silent Gunner]

I recently got a 50" Roku TV and want to attempt to project the screen from the PC to the TV. Considering that the Roku TV can display it, is it possible to actually do this? I want to do this for both my PC games and my emulators so that people don't have to hunch around my PC if they want to play a game. Also, things are just more attention grabbing with a 50" screen than a 23"-27" monitor. Also, I don't want a thick HDMI cable running across the room to try and do this. Hence, why I am looking into projecting the screen in some fashion.

Thanks in advance!

[DrHouse64]

I'm afraid HDMI is the only way. I don't know any technology that allows wireless screen projection or through network yet.
If you have a laptop you can try solutions like Steam In-Home Streaming but It won't work for all games.

[DacoTaco]

(02-08-2017, 06:03 PM)DrHouse64 Wrote: I'm afraid HDMI is the only way. I don't know any technology that allows wireless screen projection or through network yet.
If you have a laptop you can try solutions like Steam In-Home Streaming but It won't work for all games.

there are wireless hdmi dongles but suck overal xD

[NaturalViolence]

-wireless hdmi
will cost you $200 and almost always has sporadic reliability issues

-steam link
$50 linux PC that runs steam OS and therefore can do steam in-home streaming, effectiveness depends on the game and whether you use wifi or wired ethernet

-steam os on your own linux htpc

-steam on windows htpc

-nvidia shield tv/shield
$200-300, basically a beefed up android based HTPC that can do nvidia gamestream if you have an nvidia graphics card on the host PC (which works better than steam in-home streaming)

-long hdmi cable
$10+, cheapest and most reliable option, but the least aesthetically pleasing

-hdmi over ethernet via transceiver/receiver
requires ethernet wiring, $40-120 depending, sometimes has hdcp issues with certain content but generally works pretty well with games

[DacoTaco]

since he also wanna do emulators, i dont think the steam options will work, or am i wrong?

[DrHouse64]

Steam In-Home Streaming also works with non-Steam games as long as you add them on Steam, but you often need some workarounds like adding parameters and messing with pads configuration (especially emulators). In some cases it doesn't work at all.

There's a tool called ICE which can help to do this.

[NaturalViolence]

Dolphin is tricky for the same reason games with launchers (why is that becoming so popular these days?) are tricky. It runs a different program before the actual program which can confuse the streaming service. It's been awhile but I remember that I had to make a few changes to the graphics backend settings in dolphin to get it working and even then you're much better off having steam launch the GC/Wii game directly using dolphin instead of going through the GUI.

[JosJuice]

(02-10-2017, 12:16 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Dolphin is tricky for the same reason games with launchers (why is that becoming so popular these days?) are tricky. It runs a different program before the actual program which can confuse the streaming service.

Dolphin's game list runs in the same program (process) as the actual emulation. But of course, it doesn't launch the game window directly, and just that can be a problem. It might also be worth keeping in mind that things like the Steam overlay can mess with Dolphin's graphics backends, for instance by making EFB access from CPU not work.

[NaturalViolence]

By program I meant window.

With most settings in dolphin when you go to run the actual game through the GUI in steam streaming you will either get a black screen or it will continue to show the dolphin GUI and not the game window. I can't remember off the top of my head what settings I ended up having to use.

For the record I would give my left nut to anyone who implemented BT passthrough in dolphin (take BT input from another computer on the network). Because without it playing wii games remotely can be tricky.

[anatomi]

(02-10-2017, 01:54 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: For the record I would give my left nut to anyone who implemented BT passthrough in dolphin (take BT input from another computer on the network). Because without it playing wii games remotely can be tricky.

What do you mean? Bluetooth passthrough is implemented already. Do you mean USB over network? If so, VirtualHere works quite well.