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    Direct connection remote gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by kuksul08, Dec 1, 2011.

  1. kuksul08

    kuksul08 Notebook Consultant

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    Kind of an odd question for you guys. I did a lot of searching and can't find a solid answer. Most questions I found pertained to people playing a video game through an internet remote desktop - and most internet connections are not fast enough for this. My question pertains to connecting them directly via a cable.

    I've got a laptop that can play BF3 on low settings and a desktop in another room that can play BF3 on high settings. For a few reasons, I much prefer using my laptop with a larger screen monitor and whatnot.

    Is it possible to connect these two computers somehow so that I can control the desktop with my laptop and play BF3 through that connection? The goal here would be to let the desktop do the rendering and only streaming the image to the laptop.
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    At 1920x1200, single link DVI requires almost 4Gb of bandwidth; at the top of the consumer scale you've got 1Gb networks. Either the video will have to be compressed/decompressed or you'll have to run at a fairly low resolution...neither is going to perform well so something like remote desktop isn't going to work.

    Maybe with a TV tuner you could pull this off but again with encoding/decoding it might not work and if it does you'll suffer on visual quality because of the compression. Not sure.
     
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    If you don't mind the lag then try "StreamMyGame".
    StreamMyGame

    Kinda gimmicky -
    *You have to pay for higher resolutions.
    *Sign in to their website to run it - gotta have decent upload/download Internet speed

    I'm surprised they still haven't come up with a offline local LAN version, considering their capturing/encoding/streaming algorithm seems far better than your average VNCs.

    They do have a "Broadcast over LAN (view only)", not sure how well that's gonna work if you plug in a pair of wireless mouse and keyboard to the host (desktop) computer...

    StreamMyGame Windows PC to Windows Laptop Tutorial - YouTube
     
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    I assume that you are talking about streaming from within your house? Why upload the stream and then download it again? :confused:
     
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    Looks like it, not sure why.
    But that "Broadcast over LAN" doesn't seem like it requires Internet connection... so I don't know.
    StreamMyGame - Broadcast over a LAN

    Someone who actually used this service might know more.
     
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  6. kuksul08

    kuksul08 Notebook Consultant

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    Yes I am talking about doing it within my house. My internet is not nearly good enough to do anything like that - it has to be some kind of direct connection.

    Okay, so if I am understanding this properly, ethernet is not physically capable of the bandwidth required?
     
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    Yea, i think bandwith is the issue. You'd have a better experience running the required connections (aka KVM Switch). VGA/DVI/HDMI(+1 for sound) to your tv. usb hub (or wireless) for your mouse/keyboards.

    How far is the distance? I think the max for USB is something like 5m if you don't use a wireless mouse/keyboard. HDMI should be fine.
     
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  8. kuksul08

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    Err, it's probably 15 feet if I ran it through the wall, or 40 feet on the floor.
     
    kuksul08, Dec 2, 2011
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    there's USB 3.0 that supports 5Gbit/s now, though I'm not sure if there are any network drivers that can use the full bandwidth.
     
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    In practice you only ever get about half that with USB.
     
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