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Steam in-home streaming available to all

Steam in-home streaming available to all
Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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The latest Steam update includes the much anticipated in-home streaming feature. Game streaming has been part of the experimental beta version of Steam for a while, but is now stable enough for everyone to enjoy.

Steam in-home streaming allows you to stream certain games over your home network to play on another computer. This means your powerful gaming PC can stream games to a less powerful computer. The feature supports Windows, OS X, and even Linux. Valve’s SteamOS is also supported, of course.

Steam isn’t the first to provide game streaming. NVIDIA GameStream technology allows PC users to stream games to their NVIDIA SHIELD consoles. GameStream is actually more powerful than Steam as it allows players to stream games from any internet connection.

I had a chance to try out Steam in-home streaming at this year’s Game Developer Conference and was surprised how fluid everything was. DiRT 3 ran smoothly and control input never lagged. Low latency for controls is especially important for racing games.

You can try out Steam in-home streaming for yourself by having the latest version of Steam installed on two computers on your home network.

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Source: Steam

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