The question is similar but not identical to this one.
I've got a powerful gaming PC, which is a little noisy. While playing competetive FPS and such, this isn't much of a problem due my headphones block the noise.
However, playing couch-coop with friends is no fun with it, due it's too loud. Also, sometimes I like to play a SP RPG or something, where high fps doesn't matter and a reasonable ping is no problem.
The setting is as following: - Strong gaming pc with i7 CPU and Crossfire 280x as computing machine - HTPC with quadcore Intel Celeron as displaying machine - Some LG TV as displaying device - Connected via wlan (300mbs)
I looked at Steams in house streaming, but it doesn't work with my TV (It says display device is reacting too slow).
After reading a little, It seems like the biggest issue is the limited bandwith of 300mbs. I've no problem playing at 720p, but for steams stream, it still wont work.
What possibilities do I have to lower the requiered bandwith, except even lower resolutions? Maybe a way to lock fps to 20fps, lowering specific settings (like SOAA) or something?
Alternatively; Is there any devide where I can plug in a HDMI-TV for output and two xbox360 controller for input, which can perform as some kind of terminal?
The games I would like to stream don't require the crossfire power at all. I've got two GPUs. Isn't there some kind of server-software which I can use to assign one GPU for rendering one GPU for encoding the rendered material? This would lower the required bandwith in a way, that the celeron could receive the encodet material, decode it and bring it up to the TV.