Building my own Shadow PC

[Revontuli]

Dear community,

 

I posted it here since it is mostly server related in my opinion (correct me if I am wrong).

I have a very lightweight laptop for university purposes and a nice well working desktop which can basically run anything.

After seeing the Shadow video on LTT, I figured it had to be possible to set up something like this for myself. So that, when I am not at home I can host games from my pc and play on my laptop. However, I dont know any open source software that could do this, or what the requirements would be, since I have never attempted this before (I do, however, have quite some knowledge - not an expert - on servers, linux, webservers, webproxies, etc). 

 

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to approach this.

Would be cool if we can together turn this into a how-to guide for other people who would like to do the same.

 

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Findings thus far:

- UltraVNC seems to get close to the job (no testing done yet, just research)

- https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg-vnc This guy seems to have pulled it off, however, without sound, streaming mpegs

 

Thanks in advance!

[LukeNukem9]

2 minutes ago, Revontuli said:

Dear community,

 

I posted it here since it is mostly server related in my opinion (correct me if I am wrong).

I have a very lightweight laptop for university purposes and a nice well working desktop which can basically run anything.

After seeing the Shadow video on LTT, I figured it had to be possible to set up something like this for myself. So that, when I am at home I can host games from my pc and play on my laptop. However, I dont know any open source software that could do this, or what the requirements would be, since I have never attempted this before (I do, however, have quite some knowledge - not an expert - on servers, linux, webservers, webproxies, etc). 

 

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to approach this.

Would be cool if we can together turn this into a how-to guide for other people who would like to do the same.

 

Thanks in advance!

I mean, the closets i can get is to host a new minecraft game on a separate server. This could help to rendr the world by using the servers processor, not the gaming PC's.

[Revontuli]

8 minutes ago, Dubious Gaming: bl4z3 said:

I mean, the closets i can get is to host a new minecraft game on a separate server. This could help to rendr the world by using the servers processor, not the gaming PC's.

Sorry I made a typo, I meant to use the gaming pc to do the hard work, accessing it using the laptop while on the road. I found software called UltraVNC, I think thats where my search has to begin.

[ZestyJalapeno]

If you have an Nvidia card, you could use the Moonlight Streaming Client to do away with any dedicated server infrastructure and just use your PC as a VM which streams to any device. This is only for games though, I don;t think you can remote access your PC from the root directory like an actual server could enable you to do.

[Bearlord]

Maybe I am a little late to reply to this, but Parsec works great for this purpose. Doing exactly that, gaming from my laptop using the power of my desktop at home. Works like a charm.

[Revontuli]

On 12/25/2018 at 8:42 PM, Bearlord said:

Maybe I am a little late to reply to this, but Parsec works great for this purpose. Doing exactly that, gaming from my laptop using the power of my desktop at home. Works like a charm.

Its never too late, Im often very busy so had to set it aside anyways, perfect timing with the christmas holidays, defenitely gonna look into this. Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for

[Ttrakker]

Is Parsec the one for this? My gaming desktop is windows. Would love to host my own cloud gaming server. 

[Revontuli]

15 hours ago, Ttrakker said:

Is Parsec the one for this? My gaming desktop is windows. Would love to host my own cloud gaming server. 

Parsec has worked flawlessly yes. Stick with that!