Streaming

[kiki443]

Hi

 

Sorry for such a general title I really don't know how else to call this particullar question.

 

Anyway, I want to create a sort of centralised gaming server, but wherever I go I don't get much help, well not in the way I would want, so this leaves me with one possibility to ask if that is even possible.

So here is the full story:

 

I have a desktop PC with powerfull enough hardware to bassically run a particullar game in two instances, and I also have an old weak laptop, that can't really do anything besides basic web browsing, actually I have two of those.

I gave the laptop to my dad, but he wants to play a new game that I do on my desktop PC, I know the limits of that laptop, and that won't be possible to run that game, I can't afford another PC either.

So I did some research, and there is a way through Steam in home streaming, bassically I install Steam on both computers, then run the game from laptop, but the game is actually being executed on the powerfull PC, nice, now my dad can play the game he wanted..., but,  I can't, the problem is that it is like he is actually sitting on my PC playing the game, well if I wanted that, I would just give him that PC.

Now I search for any kind of solution that will allow us both to play our game on a single PC (like setting CPU affinity so that his game runs on 2 cores, while my games run on another two cores on my CPU, it would still fullfill the game's hardware requirements, I just have to lower certain settings), so he can play his game on the laptop, and I can play mine on PC, (or another laptop - if I can't use the desktop PC), but both games are being executed on the gaming rig, which is like I said before powerfull enough for that, The CPU has twice as much cores than needed, I have enogh RAM, and two GPUs).

 

Is this even theoretically possible in any way, and what moddifications should I undertake to make it possible in practice?

[piratemonkey]

2 minutes ago, kiki443 said:

Hi

 

Sorry for such a general title I really don't know how else to call this particullar question.

 

Anyway, I want to create a sort of centralised gaming server, but wherever I go I don't get much help, well not in the way I would want, so this leaves me with one possibility to ask if that is even possible.

So here is the full story:

 

I have a desktop PC with powerfull enough hardware to bassically run a particullar game in two instances, and I also have an old weak laptop, that can't really do anything besides basic web browsing, actually I have two of those.

I gave the laptop to my dad, but he wants to play a new game that I do on my desktop PC, I know the limits of that laptop, and that won't be possible to run that game, I can't afford another PC either.

So I did some research, and there is a way through Steam in home streaming, bassically I install Steam on both computers, then run the game from laptop, but the game is actually being executed on the powerfull PC, nice, now my dad can play the game he wanted..., but,  I can't, the problem is that it is like he is actually sitting on my PC playing the game, well if I wanted that, I would just give him that PC.

Now I search for any kind of solution that will allow us both to play our game on a single PC (like setting CPU affinity so that his game runs on 2 cores, while my games run on another two cores on my CPU, it would still fullfill the game's hardware requirements, I just have to lower certain settings), so he can play his game on the laptop, and I can play mine on PC, (or another laptop - if I can't use the desktop PC), but both games are being executed on the gaming rig, which is like I said before powerfull enough for that, The CPU has twice as much cores than needed, I have enogh RAM, and two GPUs).

 

Is this even theoretically possible in any way, and what moddifications should I undertake to make it possible in practice?

you could set up a virtual machine. but unless you have a mid tier or higher cpu it could be a bad time. what are the specs? there are could be a way to limit steam streaming to 2 cores or something

[kiki443]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3400g 4.1 GHz OC - 4 Cores iGPU@1.7GHz OC

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x8 GB 2933 MHz - 2 GB VRAM for iGPU VEGA 64

GPU: Gigabyte Aourus RX560 4GB VRAM

Monitor: 60 Hz 1080p

 

Specs for laptop:

AMD Turion p2 560 (I think...), dual core 2.5 GHz

AMD Mobility radeon HD 4200 256 MB VRAM

8 GB RAM

Screen resolution: 1366x768

Refresh rate: 60 Hz

[piratemonkey]

15 minutes ago, kiki443 said:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3400g 4.1 GHz OC - 4 Cores iGPU@1.7GHz OC

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x8 GB 2933 MHz - 2 GB VRAM for iGPU VEGA 64

GPU: Gigabyte Aourus RX560 4GB VRAM

Monitor: 60 Hz 1080p

 

Specs for laptop:

AMD Turion p2 560 (I think...), dual core 2.5 GHz

AMD Mobility radeon HD 4200 256 MB VRAM

8 GB RAM

Screen resolution: 1366x768

Refresh rate: 60 Hz

using a vm to use steam could work. that would introduce a performance hit though. you could try to optimize the streaming using different encoder and decoder settings. besides that there wouldnt be very much you could do, as your system doesnt have the best specs to do streaming and that stuff. hopefully it works out

[kiki443]

1 minute ago, piratemonkey said:

using a vm to use steam could work. that would introduce a performance hit though. you could try to optimize the streaming using different encoder and decoder settings. besides that there wouldnt be very much you could do, as your system doesnt have the best specs to do streaming and that stuff. hopefully it works out

Ok, thanks.

 

What components do You recomend for such setup?

[piratemonkey]

Just now, kiki443 said:

Ok, thanks.

 

What components do You recomend for such setup?

if youre getting by just fine with your computer, maybe using that config for another computer. that way you could stream from that computer your dad or whoever, or he could play on that. if you were to update your system, then i would say either a 3600 or 3700x, so you could keep your motherboard. then maybe update to a 2060 or 2070 nvidia gpu. even tho i love amd, nvidia has better streaming performance, which could mean better performance. either building the new system or upgrading should help