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it is a point of no return (europe.pub)
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what internship are you doing?

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[–] 32 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Is it worth it after that's all said and done?

I'd love to power gaming in my house from a central server, but I keep imagining that it would be spotty and frustrating as hell.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Game streaming is good, but not perfect. It's useable, but you do get the occasional stutter, dropped frames, connection issues, etc. Not to mention increased input lag.

    If you must have your PC in a different room, you'd be better off buying an optical hdmi cord. That's what I do for gaming on my TV after playing a few games through various game streaming apps and getting fed up with it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I've seen this idea a few times now. How do you get your controllers to connect? Say I want to keep my PC in the basement and have a TV on the second floor. How do I connect the controllers?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I've done this a few ways:

    Optical thunderbolt to thunderbolt dock.. so the dock would be next to your tv and you plugin to the dock with whatever. This works amazingly well.

    Game streaming over Ethernet - moonlight/sunshine do a great job, on a high quality network it's not noticable. Only downside is they don't forward microphone, so you end up doing some gymnastics to get microphone input.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I run a USB to Ethernet adapter from my PC to living room TV along with a optical HDMI cable, I even have a second HDMI for when I want to run a second portable monitor on the couch arm rest for notes and stuff

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Your mileage will vary some hardware has better support than others latency can be an issue on titles that are sensitive to it.

    Rocket league is unplayable but survival craft games play really well!

    The most straightforward approach to dabbling with it would be to install classicoldsongs Apollo on a windows machine it includes virtual display drivers that just work out the box, pair a moonlight client and see how it works for you!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Years ago, I used Moonlight to cast to an Nvidia Shield. It worked pretty well, although it still required a lot of back and forth to tinker with things on the host PC. Still, it was better than the Steam Link at the time. Recently, I tried using the built-in streaming in Steam to play on a different PC in the house, but it was much the same story: lots of back-and-forth, launchers were annoying, and sometimes it wouldn't display on the right screen.

    Maybe virtual machines would be an improvement.

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