Steam In-Home Streaming allows you to stream a game from one machine on a network to another. The idea being that your powerful desktop machine will run the game and stream the picture and perform input/output through a weak computer attached to a living room TV.

• Update: The section on the pc called 'In-Home Streaming' is now called 'Remote play'. In this video I will be showing you how to stream the Steam games on yo.
• As a workaround until the issue is resolved, you can use an older version of streamingclient.exe and it'll work. Just replace the streamingclient.exe in your steam folder with this one, which is the one prior to the update.

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One of the problems it faces is wifi latency. Most homes won’t have ethernet cables built into the walls. I only know two people who are so prepared so the rest of us will have to use wifi. I’ve used power plug networking in the past but the resulting broadcast of radio signals makes me fearful for the sanity of any long wave radio fan or CB radio junkie in the locality.

All you need to do is log into Steam on two computers on the same network. On both PCs you’ll need to enable in-home streaming. To do this, click the Steam menu in the top left corner of the. If you have several PCs at home, you probably had the chance to try Steam In-Home-Streaming (IHS): the solution made by Valve to stream games from Steam from one PC to another. It works surprisingly well, so that you can play your demanding games on a feeble laptop as long as your gaming PC is running somewhere in the house. So I got a new desktop and I installed steam. When I go to the library I cant run the games on new PC., I can only stream. Then In-Home-Streaming and remove the.

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The video above demonstrates a lot of latency and stuttering when Metro Last Light was played over a wifi network. However, ethernet worked fine with only slight lag. Here’s a thread on the Streaming Group forum looking for feedback and this thread that should be a good read.

Initially I was more excited about streaming than family sharing but the latter works just fine, and even works when the (slave) computer is offline (so the master computer can be used to play games too). I even went and bought a HDMI cable just so I can hook the laptop up to the tv. Much simpler than fiddling with streaming but then I might not be the target audience am I?

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