Tv and gaming

[shawnmfdon]

I have a modest htpc setup. An amd a10 7700k Apu like 12 GB ram and a couple tb hard drives I mainly use it for Hulu and Netflix but I do play steam games on it. My question is would it b possible to put a gpu in it and maybe a sound card to have 2 separate audio streams I want to b able to play games on my Dell monitor with headphones and my wife watch her shows on Hulu at the same time

[Enderman]

No you would need to do something like 2 gamers 1 CPU.

[Bombastinator]

20 minutes ago, shawnmfdon said:

I have a modest htpc setup. An amd a10 7700k Apu like 12 GB ram and a couple tb hard drives I mainly use it for Hulu and Netflix but I do play steam games on it. My question is would it b possible to put a gpu in it and maybe a sound card to have 2 separate audio streams I want to b able to play games on my Dell monitor with headphones and my wife watch her shows on Hulu at the same time

This sounds like a windows10 question, which I suck at.  You’ve got to send the audio from one program to one place and the audio from a different program to another place.  It’s theoretically possible.  There was a time when windows could do it.  It was mostly about windows being primitive as hell though and didn’t have its own audio.  I don’t know if windows10 can do it or not.  I can think of ONE way that would work mostly by avoiding windows.  But it’s ugly and complicated.  There are probably better ones.

more: potential ridiculous overcomplication

run a Linux system, virtualize windows inside the Linux system... and @Enderman’s post just came up.  Well I guess that answers the windows10 thing.  This might just be a dumb way to do what he said...

 

In which I bull forward anyway for probably no good reason:

Anyway you need a separate sound card and two GPUs.  One can be lowball though.  The a10 might have an apu im it which would be fine.  You pass through the big gpu and the discrete sound card to windows inside the VM, and let your wife run Netflix on Linux using the processor apu.  Tv would be plugged into the apu and the motherboard audio.  Gaming monitor would be plugged into the discrete gpu and the headphones into the audio card.  There might also be a USB solution that avoids the pcie audio card with some other sort of something.

 

Cheapest thing to do is probably spend $20 on a cheapass pi, run Linux on it, hook it up to the TV, and have two separate computers.  Or buy a used $20 core2duo office machine.