I have been using this on and off in beta. If possible I highly recommend a wired network connection. I have been testing it on a WRT54GL and that was not always sufficient. When my AC router is not misbehaving (ASUS RT-AC66U) I've been able to play online FPS shooters surprisingly well. Fighting games or FPS that are heavily twitch based won't work, but pretty much anything that can suffer the occasional frame drop or isn't precision works well.<p>tl;dr You may need an N wifi router or better that is rock solid to make things run smooth.
I've been using this more and more lately. Most recently to play Dark Souls 2 on a laptop in the living room rather than having to be sequestered upstairs in the office.<p>It's pretty amazing how well it runs, with the input lag being minimal and the quality of visuals far surpassing what the laptop could actually handle on it's own.
It's really working great, I've been using it for about the past six months (beta) and it always went great, way better than expected. I wasted hours and days trying to come with a similar solution and it always sucked. Glad they came up with something actually <i>enjoyable</i>.
To anyone running headless systems, it's worth mentioning that this works extremely well for remote control of network systems. I've played with it a bit so far and I'm quite impressed with the low latency/high quality.
So if I want to stream Steam games to my TV, what sort of client hardware do I need on the TV end? Is there an inexpensive box I can buy and use for this purpose? The support articles are kind of vague on what the system requirements for clients are...
"With good hardware and a fast home network, you’ll forget the game is running remotely."
But with bad or moderate hardware you'll experience wonderful 5000 ms latency and have a horrible time.<p>It seems like you would need an HTPC anyway to load up steam and send the video from that 2nd computer to your TV. The whole process seems pointlessly convoluted.<p>I'd rather have wireless hdmi or even a really long hdmi cable from my good computer to wherever the tv is.
I tried to do this with VNC a long time ago, so I could play Wizardry 8 on a laptop in the backyard. My wifi couldn't reach to the shady spot of the yard.
Whoa, I will have to try this with Raspberry Pi - "How to make 35$ SteamBox".<p>Btw, just tested it on my MacBook Pro, its awesome to start some CPU/GPU intensive game and play it without fan noise and heat :) Also interesting thing - you can add nonsteam games (battlefield, guild wars, heck even applications - WinSCP etc) and stream them ! This is awesome !