Need advices on streaming on lan gaming

[Tartaros]

Right now I use my laptop to work and some light gaming outside home and the desktop for everything I do at home, gaming, watch videos, etc. I'm planning on have my desktop formatted and keep it debloated from everything that doesn't fall in gaming: no video, no music, no extra software, not even chrome.

I play online games and sometimes I watch videos while gaming, youtube and those sort of things, so I use 2 monitors, have games in windows instead of full screen (with the consequent framerate drops) and I'm tired of that hassle and bloat in my gaming rig. So I thought on trying this game stream on lan, do everything on the laptop and having my desktop streaming on lan to it. But I have some questions about it.

-Since I do online gaming, how much lag does this system puts in them? Something noticeable (more than 150-200ms)? It doesn't?

-Related to the previous question, how much input lag has this system?

-I have done a quick search and it seems game streaming software are growing like mushrooms in autumn. Any recommendation? I plan on streaming to another windows pc but I have an android tablet and maybe I would be interested in streaming to it, in fact streaming not only games but video would be really interesting if that can be done. I don't mind using more than 1 software. My tablet has a quad core cortex cpu @ 1,6ghz, 2gb of ram and a mali 400 gpu.

-Can I use the steam streaming system in games that aren't from steam? Let's say LoL.

In my system specs there are my 2 computers' specs.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mussels]

why not use the gaming PC as a gaming PC, and the laptop for the other stuff? thats how i have my setup.

 

[Tartaros]

That's what I thought at first, but I always fall in doing everything in the desktop when I'm at home, so this can keep me from misuse my desktop. Also I sometimes watch videos while playing, having the game in the desktop and the video in the laptop would mean swap the soundcard to the laptop or using the speakers, which I don't want to. Also it's interesting to be able to play in other part of my home.

 

[Mussels]

just try it with steam in-home streaming for a quick test and see how that goes for you, to decide if you want to continue down that road.

 

[Tartaros]

I have set up the pcs and I have tested the steam system. Steam games work flawlessly but I still have to find a solution to non steam games, I can do streaming with them through steam but the quality is poor and I have some small input problems. I'll try some other software and see how it goes.

 

[Chainreaction]

I have set up the pcs and I have tested the steam system. Steam games work flawlessly but I still have to find a solution to non steam games, I can do streaming with them through steam but the quality is poor and I have some small input problems. I'll try some other software and see how it goes.

You can actually use steam in-home streaming for non-steam games as well.I have tested it with Origin and even with WoW too.Both works wonderful, though you might want to have a remote connection just in case to fix if any problem occurs at host (gaming pc side) If you have another software for that in mind, can you please share your experience with that too ?

 

[Tartaros]

You can actually use steam in-home streaming for non-steam games as well.I have tested it with Origin and even with WoW too.Both works wonderful, though you might want to have a remote connection just in case to fix if any problem occurs at host (gaming pc side) If you have another software for that in mind, can you please share your experience with that too ?

Precisely I have tested WoW on steam and I found 2 problems. First, there is some mouse input problem, the camera does strange moves when I try to walk using both 1 and 2 mouse buttons. Second, the image quality drops when I turn hardware decoding in one of the 2 pcs, I'm still trying to guess which one, but the point of hardware decoding is to lessen the impact on the pc so maybe I should try to give steam a fixed bandwith. Like I said, steam games worked perfectly, but this one not so much.

I have read something about using twitch and obs, it was quite strange but I have used obs in the past and gives more control in that regard. Maybe I'll try if I don't find other better way.

 

[Tartaros]

Well I have found the input problem, sometimes it's the left mouse button who gets "stuck", that's why the camera does strange moves sometimes. I have set the maximum bandwith in steam and the quality problems have fixed, still I have some artifacts if there is a lag in the host computer, but it's nothing.