Your own GeForce now?

[The Torrent]

If I have a spare pc in my house and my mate has a shitty laptop how can I set up a GeForce now type of interface so he can connect and play some games.

 

ik teamviewer etc. But that seems clunky and a lot of latency to me unless that’s the same as any other way.

 

im thinking some out of thing u know like steam link u can use to stream ur pc onto ur phone like thwt but not for local.

 

or any other assorted computer remote control low latency service that allows all keyboard input.

 

thanks

[Kilrah]

Unless you have insane upload speeds it would end up being trash. Lend him your PC instead...

[Lurick]

Just now, Kilrah said:

Unless you have insane upload speeds it would end up being trash.

Even with insane uploads that still wouldn't overcome the obvious latency penalty in even the best scenario and make it pretty much trash from that alone.

[RGProductions]

Actual user of GeForce now (the windows one) here- it’s still garbage. Game streaming isn’t ready, and I honestly think it never will be

[The Torrent]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Unless you have insane upload speeds it would end up being trash. Lend him your PC instead...

About 50mbps upload so idk where that’s placed,

 

 

but what’s the best that is possible. which software has the least latency?

[Lurick]

7 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

About 50mbps upload so idk where that’s placed,

 

 

but what’s the best that is possible. which software has the least latency?

Let's assume good conditions and you're wired end to end, no wireless in the mix. You're looking at probably around 50 to 100ms of latency from your home to his, assuming decent coax cables and that you're both on the same ISP, plus any overhead a remote client will introduce as well and you're probably looking somewhere in the neighborhood of 100ms to 200ms+ of latency at least. Toss in some bad connections, different ISPs for additional hops, high network load or wireless into the mix and that's going to go up like crazy.

This is all spitballing by me based on averages that I've seen and it could be lower or much much higher, it's hard to say.

[lufihengr]

Like @Kilrah said, unless you have a god-tier internet connection, it's not going to be playable.

 

The 3 real options are:

 

1. Lend the PC to your friend

2. Have your friend come over to your house to play.

3. Run a network cable (most likely needs to be fiber) from your house to your friends house. You need to reserve about 100 grand for this, if it's less than like a few miles

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, The Torrent said:

If I have a spare pc in my house and my mate has a shitty laptop how can I set up a GeForce now type of interface so he can connect and play some games.

 

ik teamviewer etc. But that seems clunky and a lot of latency to me unless that’s the same as any other way.

 

im thinking some out of thing u know like steam link u can use to stream ur pc onto ur phone like thwt but not for local.

 

or any other assorted computer remote control low latency service that allows all keyboard input.

 

thanks

Actually steam has this function?

 

I'm not sure if it works for all games but I kinda think it should. It's like remote play on ps4 basically. 

 

I tried it recently with a friend who has shitty satellite connection and he complained a lot about lag - didn't stop him from beating me in a fighting game though haha. 

 

I guess the lag wouldn't be actually so bad with a normal Internet connection and I think people exaggerate the issue tbh.  I played fighting games with Japanese friends - so about 300ms ping,  and it worked just..   fine honestly? 

 

 

Just try it out on Steam! I'd say.

[The Torrent]

9 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Actually steam has this function?

 

I'm not sure if it works for all games but I kinda think it should. It's like remote play on ps4 basically. 

 

I tried it recently with a friend who has shitty satellite connection and he complained a lot about lag - didn't stop him from beating me in a fighting game though haha. 

 

I guess the lag wouldn't be actually so bad with a normal Internet connection and I think people exaggerate the issue tbh.  I played fighting games with Japanese friends - so about 300ms ping,  and it worked just..   fine honestly? 

 

 

Just try it out on Steam! I'd say.

Steam can do it over wifi? I thought it was local only?

[Kilrah]

It is local only but you can create a vpn with things like hamachi so that 2 distant computers appear on the same network.

 

Note that you need to share your Steam credentials then, and can't play a Steam game while your friend does.

[StackUnderflow]

Try Rainway or Parsec, discover how shitty it is, then give up on it.

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, The Torrent said:

Steam can do it over wifi? I thought it was local only?

I'm honestly not quite sure what you want to do but no, it's like PlayStation remote play - I just found it odd no one mentioned it. 

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

 

PS: seems to be multi-player only, but I don't quite understand why it wouldn't work for games that have both :thinking:

 

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

It is local only

Well this ^  isn't

[Kilrah]

Yeah but this is a different thing, it's only for games that have 2-player play on same PC, the 2nd player can be located remotely.

 

[The Torrent]

On 12/29/2019 at 2:04 PM, Mark Kaine said:

I'm honestly not quite sure what you want to do but no, it's like PlayStation remote play - I just found it odd no one mentioned it. 

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

 

PS: seems to be multi-player only, but I don't quite understand why it wouldn't work for games that have both :thinking:

 

Well this ^  isn't

So it works I found out if u both u and ur mate use them same IP address vpn then it tricks it.

[Mark Kaine]

2 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

So it works I found out if u both u and ur mate use them same IP address vpn then it tricks it.

Nice,  that's kinda what I figured.

So I'm curious though, what games did you try?