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Steam: now has working beta of in-home streaming capability for games and apps

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40hz:
The people who are capable of streaming aren't the target market for porting games to Linux.  If someone has a Windows box to stream off, chances are they'd be willing to use that box for the game anyway.
-kamahl (February 07, 2014, 09:58 AM)
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I think that's the point being made. There isn't enough of a current market to pursue Linux porting - and now that an alternative is available, there's even less incentive to pursue it at this point.

FWIW I've found almost every Linux user I know keep some Windows capability in-house. Even if it's just a VM, hand-me-down laptop, or a PC picked up cheaply second-hand. And since a diehard Linux zealot is far more likely to pick up a SteamBox (if they're an avid gamer) and stream from that, there's not much reason reason to create a native Linux port.

IMHO the biggest 'problem' Linux has for gaming is it's refusal to willingly allow any DRM mechanism into its environment. Something all the big game companies mostly insist on. So... No DRM on your PC? No game for you!

Deozaan:
In-Home Streaming is now out of beta and available for everyone.

And if it wasn't mentioned previously, one of the nice additional benefits of the In-Home Streaming feature is that you can now be signed into your Steam account on multiple PCs at the same time. This means you can also download games/updates to multiple PCs at the same time.  :Thmbsup:

(Or you can just play remotely, so that you don't need to download the game(s) on the second PC at all...)

skwire:
In-Home Streaming is now out of beta and available for everyone.-Deozaan (May 23, 2014, 05:45 PM)
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For what it's worth, we (my oldest daughter and I) tested this yesterday using my desktop PC (nice gaming rig) and her laptop (not much a gaming laptop, i.e., HD3000 graphics chip).  I used FarCry3 as the test game and the whole experience actually worked out pretty well.  For a game like that on her laptop, typically, we have to really reduce the graphic settings in order to make the framerate playable.  However, using the streaming functionality, we were able to play FC3 on her laptop with MUCH better graphical quality than if we played directly on her laptop.  There was some screen tearing on the laptop side that reminded me of the effect you get when you play with a framerate higher than the refresh rate of your monitor.  However, we could have probably reduced that by using a lower resolution to play at as I think her laptop was struggling to keep up with the video decoding that drives this functionality.  At any rate, it was pretty damn slick overall.   :up: to Steam.   :D

And if it wasn't mentioned previously, one of the nice additional benefits of the In-Home Streaming feature is that you can now be signed into your Steam account on multiple PCs at the same time. This means you can also download games/updates to multiple PCs at the same time.  :Thmbsup:-Deozaan (May 23, 2014, 05:45 PM)
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Mouser and I were discussing this very thing yesterday in IRC.  And, yes, this is a VERY nice side benefit.  Beforehand, if you logged into Steam from a second computer, it would punt you out of the first one AND remove your saved password.  A right PITA to re-enter if you use randomly generated passwords like me.

(Or you can just play remotely, so that you don't need to download the game(s) on the second PC at all...)-Deozaan (May 23, 2014, 05:45 PM)
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That is correct.  However, you CANNOT play games from multiple computers at the same time.  Not even different games.  That is, only one computer can be playing one game at any one time.

wraith808:
That is correct.  However, you CANNOT play games from multiple computers at the same time. Not even different games.  That is, only one computer can be playing one game at any one time.
-skwire (June 06, 2014, 10:05 AM)
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Making sure I understand this... you cannot access anything from the shared library from multiple computers at the same time?

skwire:
Making sure I understand this... you cannot access anything from the shared library from multiple computers at the same time?-wraith808 (June 06, 2014, 11:24 AM)
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Correct.  I started Game-A on Computer-1 and attempted to start Game-B on Computer-2.  A warning box appeared stating that Computer-1 already had a game going and would be disconnected if I were to continue attempting to play on Computer-2.

Steam: now has working beta of in-home streaming capability for games and apps

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