This has completely changed my future plans for home pc gaming, as I was already considering building a 2nd gaming pc to keep in the living room (albeit a bit underpowered and on a budget). I was already running a 50 foot HDMI cable and bluetooth connection from our bedroom to the living room in order to play games like Resident Evil 6 on our big screen. Steam In-Home streaming seems like it could eliminate that mess of cables and placate an annoyed fiance.
Well, how does it work? (via linus tech tips)
So how did it work out for me? In short, pretty damn well.
My main pc specs:
i7 3770k
AMD Radeon 7870 XT (Tahiti LE)
8gb of ram
Corsair SSD, Velociraptor, Some Standard 7200 rpm drives
My streaming device specs:
i7 3840QM
8 gb of ram
Intel HD4000 integrated graphics
My home network specs:
10/100 going through 2 powerline adapters (we rent so I can't run my own data drops at the moment)
Wireless N network via my bargain TP-Link WR841N
After some fiddling, I found the streaming to be pretty good. The sound and video was quite clear and was coming out at full resolution. I didn't find out how many FPS I'm currently getting through the stream, but from my understanding that is dependent on your network infrastructure. I'm sure once I get my home gigabit network up and running that will jump.
There is a slight input delay. I was using my wired xbox 360 controller attached to the stream laptop and there was a delay of a few milliseconds. This might be a problem if you're playing a game that requires some twitch reaction play, but it should be fine for most single player games.
I'll post some HQ videos up once I get some more data, but from my initial impressions of the beta, I'm quite pleased and I can't wait until it gets officially rolled out to the masses.
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