How do I stream what's happening on one PC to another, whilst giving the second PC control of what I'm doing? I'm basically talking about a broader version of Steam's Remote Play technology, but one where I don't have to run Half-Life to use it. I've got a rubbish laptop and a quite snappy desktop, so it would be nice to be able to use the desktop around the house, so I can edit video files in the garden, call people names in the bath, that sort of thing.
I know this seems like quite a basic thing to figure out on my own, but I've been looking around and I just get conflicting search results about live streaming.
>Either way, don't expect much in the way of framerate.
It'll work seamlessly up to 4k60 if the desktop PC is connected via gigabit ethernet to an 802.11ac router. Any lesser setup will be a bit janky. Xiaomi and Honor do cheap routers with good performance, but I'd recommend a Tenda mesh setup if you want full coverage in a large-ish house.
>Steam's Remote Play technology
Steam Remote Play will stream your desktop and is better optimised than most VNC apps.
So I thought of a workaround. I added a non-Steam game to Steam, a DS Emulator, and ran that, alt-tabbed out with the PC keyboard and ta-da, portable desktop. Presumably you can run any programme as a "non-Steam game", so maybe something with ultra-low system usage might be a better idea as this emulator is hungrier than I thought it would be. The laptop itself is so sluggish it's actually faster at streaming my PC than performing any processes of it's own. You do have to set it up at the PC itself, but as far as I can tell if I wanted to I could now use my phone as a hotspot and take my PC anywhere I like. Unless I accidentally pressed the Windows key on the laptop, then I'd be knackered.
Here's a terrible Halo meme you wouldn't be able to see if I was on my laptop, as proof, or something.
>>27663 I don't understand why you've had to do this. Others have already stated that Steam Remote Play has desktop streaming built-in. Why can't you just use that?
>>27665 That's not true, the only guides for desktop streaming on Steam are for doing the exact same thing I talked about doing in my post. Feel free to show me where the desktop streaming option is on Steam, maybe I'm just being blind, but I can't see it in Steam's settings, broadcasting, profile.
>>27666 This is exactly what I asked for in my OP so, err, thanks, I don't understand why you're trying to sound smug though. Plus, that's a Microsoft application and is therefore likely radiating a serious amount of black magic and I'm already running Windows 10 AND 8.1 on the laptop so I really don't need any more of that. I had to have my motherboard consecrated just stop the PC from attacking me in my sleep.
>>27667 Well, I use the app on my Samsung TV. The app itself has a 'desktop' button but I find that doesn't work very well so I rarely use it.
I start up the app and connect to Steam - it starts in Big Picture mode. I minimise Big Picture mode and boom, there's the desktop, with full mouse and keyboard control.
>>27668 I tried the Big Picture Mode method but whenever I try to stream it from the PC I just get a pop-up telling me "Laptop is no longer available for streaming" and then it immediately reconnects. I have no idea why. I'm doing the exact same thing with my method anyway, I can use literally any application on my PC, it's really a moot point.
>>27667 >This is exactly what I asked for in my OP so, err, thanks
Yes, that's why we suggested both it and VNC. I have no idea why you ended up dicking around with Steam after that.