Valve is
continuing to update their recently launched in-home streaming beta, this time adding the ability to support "streaming non-Steam games in the Steam library". Thanks to this change, even if your games aren't actually available through Steam, simply adding them to your library will now allow you to beam them across the cyberspace.
While your head may be spinning at the possibilities, this change now means any game can be streamed through Steam in-home streaming, simply by clicking the "Add a Non-Steam Game" option. In essence, this essentially bridges the gap from Windows to Linux or Mac computers. So go ahead, why not beam across Solitaire to your big screen TV and enjoy that crisp velvet-coated virtual card table.
Of course all of this relies on the infrastructure being stable and reliable, something that
users are noting is still a long way in the current beta form. As always though, this kind of system is always going to (hopefully) get better as time goes on.
In related Steam news Valve has also revealed a new list of 50 games to have been greenlit this week, just a fortnight after the last 50. You can find the
full list over here, but among the more notable ones includes Catlateral Damage, the pet project of designer Chris Chung in which you play a cheeky cat knocking objects off surfaces. Cat-tastic.
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The In-Home Streaming beta is being trickled out via email invites
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Had steam installed on my media centre PC (which is pretty average specs - and in the lounge room) and my normal gaming PC and streamed DOTA2 with no issues (I was watching a tournie).
I plugged in my Xbox 360 wireless controller into the Media Centre PC in the lounge room and fired up Borderlands 2, worked flawlessly.
So yeah, pretty freakin' awesome!
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specs of machinery and network equipment plz
Posted 07:36pm 24/1/14
Just the Surface Pro tablet haha
Intel Core i5-3317U Dual-core 1.7 GHz (Turbo Boost to 2.6 GHz)
4gb RAM
No GPU
and I'm just using Telstra's stock cable router. NetGear Network Gateway CG3100
Certain games run better than others but no worse than 30fps ... Tomb Raider ran amazingly and the control lag was extremely minimal and hardly even noticed it. Took on about 10 mobs in Arkham Origins and didn't get hit once and countered every attack. didn't affect my gameplay what so ever. Played it over WiFi as well. Serious Sam 3 played pretty well except for a maybe 10 second gap but it's still in beta and I haven't tweeked a single thing. Just jumped right in.
Posted 07:42pm 24/1/14
nice results!
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PC <- WiFi -> Surface Pro <- HDMI -> 52" TV and playing with Xbox 360 controller
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I really want to get my hands on the steam controller now.
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I will say there was a slight bit of latency in movement, but this was only picked up when using mouse/keyboard. Using a controller you couldn't tell the difference. This was all tested over a gigabit ethernet connection, my PC specs are as follows:
Windows 8.1
8GB DRR3 1600MHz RAM
Intel Core i7-3770k @ 3.50GHz (not OC)
GeForce GTX 570 with 4GB GDDR5
So pretty sub-standard GPU though somewhat high quality CPU. Can't wait for the Steam controller.