Hi!
I just bought the Nvidia Shield, and was wondering if there is a way to use the game streaming from my pc, even though I have an AMD graphics card (r9 390 8gb).
Has anyone dealt with this/know of a way?
Thanks in advance!
Hi!
I just bought the Nvidia Shield, and was wondering if there is a way to use the game streaming from my pc, even though I have an AMD graphics card (r9 390 8gb).
Has anyone dealt with this/know of a way?
Thanks in advance!
Linkme: KinoConsole
not sure if that bot works in this subreddit. but that's the name of an app that works reasonably well for me. it's not good enough to play FPS games on but simpler/slower games work fine. that's with my r9 290
In my experience they work... but not as well as Gamestream. Kino is "mostly playable" and probably the better one in my experience but it might vary depending on your setup.
Try Splashtop, I bet you'd gave good success there.
If this is your setup and you don't want to replace that graphics card at this time, you might be better off returning the Shield (if you still can) and getting two separate devices: Google's Nexus Player, and Valve's Steam Link. The total will come to less than the Shield, and you'll be able to do the game streaming to the Steam Link. In my understanding, one of the primary selling points of the Shield is the ability to stream games, right?
What I've recommended is actually the setup my partner and I have. He purchased the Nexus Player, and I the Steam Link. I've had the Link for a bit over a month an a half now (I was in the early-access preorder), and I'm really happy with the performance and latency (or more specifically, the lack thereof). I've been doing the In-Home streaming even longer than that, though, using an HTPC running Ubuntu, and I was also very happy with the performance on that.
Even if you want to keep the Shield because you got it for the moderate selection of native games and the online game streaming thing, not just the Android TV part, you may still want to consider getting the Steam Link for local streaming. Steam can take advantage of the hardware acceleration for video encoding on both AMD and Nvidia cards, and you can stream any non-Steam games (including emulators) if you take the couple seconds to add shortcuts for them to your library. I've successfully streamed a number of games this way, including Battlefront , StarCraft II and Minecraft , so it even works when an interstitial launcher like Battle.net or Origin is involved. It's compatible with pretty much anything you'd care to throw at it. It'll even stream games from my Ubuntu installation, not just Windows.
EDIT: If you don't want to spend the $50 on the Link at this time, you could also grab an older laptop or PC and throw SteamOS or Ubuntu + Steam on it. As long as it has moderate graphical capabilities (i.e., it needs to be capable of decoding high-ish bitrate HD video), you should be able to easily turn it into a streaming client on the cheap. If you think you'd want to do that and need any help, I'd be happy to help walk you through it. As I said, this is what i'd been doing up until mid-June or so, but I had to take the old desktop I was using as my HTPC to replace our home server when it broke down.
No. AMD will not work. If you have faster than 10MB Internet and the right router you can use the cloud streaming service.
No. However, you can look into steam in home streaming or steam link.