Hello Dolphin Forums.
I've been a long time lurker but very recently decided to make an account just to share some cool new nifty things we can do with Steam's In-House-Streaming.
For a long time I have been playing NGC and WII games on my computer in HD (and sometimes in 3D)... just to re-play or play in HD.
However I've hated that if I wanted to play in my Den, on the couch, on my nice big TV, I would have to move my whole desktop out there, which would be a pain for just emulated console gaming.
But now with Valve's latest addition to Steam In-House-Streaming, my issue has been resolved.
I now use my laptop to stream from my desktop, into my den on my beautiful TV. NGC games in HD! Who would have thought?
If you've got a decent laptop/media pc and you have your gaming rig coop'd up in your room like me, all you need is a steam account.
As of right now (may/25/2014) In-House-Streaming is not enabled for "Non-steam" games yet. To fix this, enter the steam beta via "Steam>Settings>Account>Beta participation>Change".
Initially, in-house-streaming had already blown me away with its responsiveness and screen quality. I played through an entire campaign in l4d2, while streaming with In-House-Streaming, without a single hiccup. (mind you I have a gigabit switch between my laptop and my desktop).
Now what really gets me is the support between the two machines. Sitting in my den, with my xbox controller plugged into my laptop, I launched dolphin via In-House-Streaming and voila! Dolphin on my desktop, in my bedroom, properly uses the xbox360 controller input from my laptop. Wow!
How cool is that!?!
This has seriously changed my way of gaming alone. I'm going to be so much more comfortable playing emulated gamecube games in HD.
Now for the sad part... so far I haven't been able to get the Wiimote to work yet (connected to my laptop)
I'm no coder for dolphin, so I guess I've stopped here. I been able to try connecting my wiimote to my desktop via bluetooth and launching stream on my laptop- for the very reason that the wiimote just loses connection because I'm so far away from my desktop :(
Oh well.
This is pretty darn cool anyway- seriously neat stuff happening.
Specs of my PC's in case:
Desktop: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.7 GHZ, Nvidia GTX 660 ti, 8gb ram.
Laptop: Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.0 GHZ, Nvidia GT 555m, 6GB ram.
Thoughts?
Good? Bad? Am I wasting my time posting here?
I've been a long time lurker but very recently decided to make an account just to share some cool new nifty things we can do with Steam's In-House-Streaming.
For a long time I have been playing NGC and WII games on my computer in HD (and sometimes in 3D)... just to re-play or play in HD.
However I've hated that if I wanted to play in my Den, on the couch, on my nice big TV, I would have to move my whole desktop out there, which would be a pain for just emulated console gaming.
But now with Valve's latest addition to Steam In-House-Streaming, my issue has been resolved.
I now use my laptop to stream from my desktop, into my den on my beautiful TV. NGC games in HD! Who would have thought?
If you've got a decent laptop/media pc and you have your gaming rig coop'd up in your room like me, all you need is a steam account.
As of right now (may/25/2014) In-House-Streaming is not enabled for "Non-steam" games yet. To fix this, enter the steam beta via "Steam>Settings>Account>Beta participation>Change".
Initially, in-house-streaming had already blown me away with its responsiveness and screen quality. I played through an entire campaign in l4d2, while streaming with In-House-Streaming, without a single hiccup. (mind you I have a gigabit switch between my laptop and my desktop).
Now what really gets me is the support between the two machines. Sitting in my den, with my xbox controller plugged into my laptop, I launched dolphin via In-House-Streaming and voila! Dolphin on my desktop, in my bedroom, properly uses the xbox360 controller input from my laptop. Wow!
How cool is that!?!
This has seriously changed my way of gaming alone. I'm going to be so much more comfortable playing emulated gamecube games in HD.
Now for the sad part... so far I haven't been able to get the Wiimote to work yet (connected to my laptop)
I'm no coder for dolphin, so I guess I've stopped here. I been able to try connecting my wiimote to my desktop via bluetooth and launching stream on my laptop- for the very reason that the wiimote just loses connection because I'm so far away from my desktop :(
Oh well.
This is pretty darn cool anyway- seriously neat stuff happening.
Specs of my PC's in case:
Desktop: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.7 GHZ, Nvidia GTX 660 ti, 8gb ram.
Laptop: Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.0 GHZ, Nvidia GT 555m, 6GB ram.
Thoughts?
Good? Bad? Am I wasting my time posting here?