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Im thinking about building a cheap PC for almost like a media box in my living room. But I also want to use it for a-lot of in-home game streaming. I was wondering if team viewer would be better than steam in home streaming? Also what would you recommend for hardware requirements. I'm thinking about doing 4gb of ram, dual core with clock speed of high 2's or in the 3 ghz range, and then obviously a pretty decent wireless card. I do appreciate any input :)

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Steam home sharing all the way.

 

I can run it on my ultrabook with a 1.5ghz i5, 4gb of ram, and integrated graphics fine, on the receiving end, of course.

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Ahahahah no

 

TeamViewer doesn't do it over LAN. It will stream it over the internet

 

 

 

 

Steam in home sharing is for sure the way to go! :)

You can connect via local IP.

 

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I can use steam in home streaming on an atom netbook that is glued to the back of my TV. You can run it on pretty much anything that will stream video at a high enough frame rate over your network because that is all it is effectively doing.

Disclaimer : I might be wrong.

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They are similar. Steam In-Home Streaming might be better in terms of controller input. To be honest, I've never seriously tried playing a game on Team Viewer. I didn't even know it could connect without the Internet.

 

I think you should go with Steam In-Home Streaming though because that is designed for games whereas Team Viewer is not.

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You can connect via local IP.

 

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Was that added in TV9? Or has that always been a thing? 

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Was that added in TV9? Or has that always been a thing? 

From what I know it has always been a thing and you just connect to the IP like you would with the ID

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I am using Steam in home streaming. Got a rMBP for work, however got media pc with i3 and 650 gpu. OSX cant run most games but now with in home streaming makes it possible to play a game whilst not even on same room. dont hear a pc nagging at me over heat or spinning fans. love it. 

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Im thinking about building a cheap PC for almost like a media box in my living room. But I also want to use it for a-lot of in-home game streaming. I was wondering if team viewer would be better than steam in home streaming? Also what would you recommend for hardware requirements. I'm thinking about doing 4gb of ram, dual core with clock speed of high 2's or in the 3 ghz range, and then obviously a pretty decent wireless card. I do appreciate any input :)

Don't use Teamviewer. Just get something that has hardware H.264 decoding (Intel Iris integrated graphics, or anything from AMD/NVidia basically).

 

Teamviewer would be worse. MUCH MUCH WORSE! There's no hardware acceleration, and no optimization for gaming. I can't imagine it would be anything but horrible.

Steam in-home streaming is basically your best bet, and you really don't need a powerful computer.

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Team viewer is great for what it was designed for. However, the input lag/video lag would be too much to make all but the slowest paced RTS games impossible. Steam in home streaming is a much better solution, and works very well for me, and many others as well. 

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