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Article #694612Re: Lets talk about gamestreaming
From: Toby Newman
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:48
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:48
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On 2015-10-27, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote: > Am 25.10.15 um 07:51 schrieb Toby Newman: > >> I tried Steam In-home streaming earlier in the year. >> Server was a moderately powerful Win7 PC, client was Fedora linux, >> infrastructure was GigE ethernet. >> >> I found that the overhead of encoding the video cost about 10fps on my >> host PC, and there was a big detriment to video quality. I gave up on >> the idea and ran HDMI through a CAT-5 adapter instead. >> > Did you use hardware encoding? I just used Steam defaults. >> That's not been ideal either; At 1080p there are occasional dropouts >> so I have to run at 720p. Depending on if I want to play on my main PC >> or send it to my living room means I have to reconfigure my PC's video >> output and default soundcard. Can't find any way to automate this at >> the moment and it's a real PITA. >> > Mhh I never had dropouts on normal ethernet. > The only game where I really have a significant drop in fps is the Witcher 3 > but that game drives my machine anway to its limits. This is key, though. The fact that there's an overhead at all means I'm not getting as many frames as I would if I just sat at the proper computer. That's why I don't see the appeal of in-home streaming. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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