What is a streaming rig?

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Ok, I see people build PCs and calling it streaming rigs, I don't get it. How does game streaming and everything works?

[Jaybird]

It works by the GPU in your main rig encoding the output to your network this allowing you to game on a shield or a cheap PC located in your family room.

[failblox]

http://store.steampowered.com/streaming/

[ImBleu]

Ok, I see people build PCs and calling it streaming rigs, I don't get it. How does game streaming and everything works?

 

Similar to things like Nvidia Shields (GameStream) and Steam in-home streaming:

 

The computer will render the game (or movie etc) and then output the signal as a 'video' to another device while receiving the signal from the other device for keyboard movements. This allows you to play AAA games on ultra books etc, or a Intel NUC in the living room. 

 

Its just basically screensharing.

 

 

Unless you mean streaming as in twitch, in which case it's just a High performance PC able to render/play games and have enough horsepower to push it all to twitch at 60fps.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

It works by the GPU in your main rig encoding the output to your network this allowing you to game on a shield or a cheap PC located in your family room.

 

Wow, how is that possible lol. Does the receiving PC need to have any good GPU card or what?

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Similar to things like Nvidia Shields (GameStream) and Steam in-home streaming:

 

The computer will render the game (or movie etc) and then output the signal as a 'video' to another device while receiving the signal from the other device for keyboard movements. This allows you to play AAA games on ultra books etc, or a Intel NUC in the living room. 

 

Its just basically screensharing.

 

 

Unless you mean streaming as in twitch, in which case it's just a High performance PC able to render/play games and have enough horsepower to push it all to twitch at 60fps.

 

Oooooh I see. So the good PC (outputing) renders all the stuff and converts that into a video and PC receives only video... ok ok. Is there much a delay?

[Jaybird]

Wow, how is that possible lol. Does the receiving PC need to have any good GPU card or what?

Nope. Just need to have a decent network to carry the stream. More bandwidth in the network will reduce latences.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Nope. Just need to have a decent network to carry the stream. More bandwidth in the network will reduce latences.

 

Ok, and I see that Steam has it built in. But let's say I would want to stream my desktop or just a game without using steam service, how would one do that?