Abburo Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 I recently decide to try steam streaming between 2 computers at home. I was simply amased playing a game on my wireless conected laptop. I have curiosity: does anybody try stream DCS over steam? Romanian Community for DCS World HW Specs: AMD 7900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090, HOTAS Virpil, MFG, CLS-E, custom
KaspeR32 Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 I heard about this. I wasn't sure exactly what it was though. The game "runs" on your gaming PC, but streams to another device that you can play it on? For example, Could I hook my joystick up to a laptop and play from that while it "runs" on my main PC? Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
cichlidfan Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 For example, Could I hook my joystick up to a laptop and play from that while it "runs" on my main PC? Yes. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Abburo Posted January 29, 2015 Author Posted January 29, 2015 Well... still trying to figure out how to connect the controller to my laptop and be seen by the game. What I can see right now on game controllers within game setting are the ones that are connected to the main rig. I am currently using stream steam to play Arma3 and DayZ. They are working like charm. My laptop remain cool as ice, no processing at all on its side, all the work being done at main rig level. Today I tried playing on a netbook (obsolete hardware, 1GHz AMD C30 and 2GB RAM). On 10" display a slow paced game like DayZ is perfect. I can play it anywhere in house ... excellent FPS ... amazed, really amazed about this option! Romanian Community for DCS World HW Specs: AMD 7900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090, HOTAS Virpil, MFG, CLS-E, custom
Cnuke Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) Thanks for posting about it! I gave it a try as well with an ancient laptop. One that I need to revive every couple of months by taking out the 9500m graphiccard and bake it in the oven for 8-10 minutes. ;D (nvidia bumpgate) I used my current DCS WORLD beta installation from ED (outside steam). By using the option to add the executable from a non-steamgame to the steamlibrary. I had some issues getting the controls correctly setup, as for example I had to restart DCS on the main pc to get back all the controls for all the modules back as all things appeared to be gone. And then another restart, but then launched from the laptop with the streamfunction. Then there appeared a new Valve joystick control column added to the controlsmenu. I used an xbox 360 pad on the laptop. It's impressive that it works easily without issues. A small bit of lag while flying but not so problematic as you might expect. Really impressed as well. Funny stuff :) Edited January 30, 2015 by Cnuke
Abburo Posted January 31, 2015 Author Posted January 31, 2015 Oh... excelent hint about controller. I have to try more because I was unable to add this function to Arma3 Romanian Community for DCS World HW Specs: AMD 7900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090, HOTAS Virpil, MFG, CLS-E, custom
Abburo Posted January 31, 2015 Author Posted January 31, 2015 I used my current DCS WORLD beta installation from ED (outside steam). By using the option to add the executable from a non-steamgame to the steamlibrary. I did not read very carefully first time, then I realize the above statement.... and this is just AWESOME. Thank you for the hint! ;) Romanian Community for DCS World HW Specs: AMD 7900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090, HOTAS Virpil, MFG, CLS-E, custom
Cnuke Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) I did not read very carefully first time, then I realize the above statement.... and this is just AWESOME. Thank you for the hint! ;) Great you got it. You can add a videoplayer program to your steamlibrary with that and watch a movie on a tablet with streaming. Anyway I did some testing, and I think I write a little easy tutorial. Here it is :thumbup: Edited February 4, 2015 by Cnuke
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