Steam in-home streaming issue

lincsman

lincsman

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Hi there, and thank you for reading my post. I recently bought a laptop with an I5 6200, 8GB DDR4 RAM with a GTX 940mx. I can run a few older games on it but for higher end games I want to stream from my desktop. I did so and it worked great, except for a really annoying blackout of the screen every 20 seconds. It goes black for a split second, but is really annoying. I did a quick google search and Steam forums had a post with someone saying that AMD graphics cards have that issue, and that it is being worked on. Well that doesn't really help me much because nowhere in my laptop or desktop is there a AMD card. So before I search through many things on google I'm asking if anyone here knows a solution.
if it helps, my desktop specs are in my signature and my laptop is an Acer Aspire E 17 E5-774G-503H.
any help is appreciated. Graphics drivers are up-to-date on both systems.
 
If the issue is coming from Steam and is being worked on there isn't much you can do... AMD seems to have problems with Steam programs... Rust kept crashing because of the new AMD driver, one of the reason i moved onto ARK Survival too...
 
Punk said:
If the issue is coming from Steam and is being worked on there isn't much you can do... AMD seems to have problems with Steam programs... Rust kept crashing because of the new AMD driver, one of the reason i moved onto ARK Survival too...
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"Steam programs". You mean, like... the vast majority of games released on PC? He also stated he doesn't have any AMD hardware...? Rust is likely crashing because it's in Early Access, can't really pin that on AMD. Lol on going to ARK for stability. That game runs like poop.

Streaming has been pretty hit or miss in my experience. Is your laptop plugged in and in high performance mode? What kind of home network do you have set up, as it relies mainly on that.
 
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Well it runs well now except with Dirt 3 (ugh). I read that I should disable hardware encoding and it worked, except with Dirt 3 but whatever I rarely play that game. I am renting and my landlord just put a new router with 5G in a number of months ago. We are with Shaw and have one of the fastest internet speeds not that that matters with this. Yes it is wireless through the router. I don't have my laptop in high performance mode because I have yet to figure out how to change that. I think it maxes out at 2.6Ghz and apparently it should be able to go to 2.8. if any of you know how to do that I would appreciate the input. I went into BIOS as on my desktop I can change the performance settings there and didn't find any such options. I also looked for advanced options and didn't see it. Not too impressed with this computer's (laptop) BIOS but no big deal. I'm going to google how to change the performance settings and get back if I find any.
 
couldn't find crap on google. So yeah I could use some help with adjusting the performance settings on my laptop :).
 
Darren said:
"Steam programs". You mean, like... the vast majority of games released on PC? He also stated he doesn't have any AMD hardware...? Rust is likely crashing because it's in Early Access, can't really pin that on AMD. Lol on going to ARK for stability. That game runs like poop.

Streaming has been pretty hit or miss in my experience. Is your laptop plugged in and in high performance mode? What kind of home network do you have set up, as it relies mainly on that.
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Read too fast for AMD hardware my bad.

Rust and AMD have been throwing the fault at each other and nothing has improved for a while about this issue. There was an update a week ago though, haven't checked since. ARK is fine, I'm pretty sure you haven't played for a while. The only problem is the lag when servers are full. Both are early release but still releases and both generate lots of money and players so it is in AMD's interest to make it work too, let's not point the finger only on Rust when a driver update from AMD screwed the stability of a game.
 
I too have had issues streaming Steam games across the house.

Took about 5 minutes to get it proper, which included shutting down and restarting the receiving laptop. My desktop is hardwired though.

I was only able to play Surgeon Simulator, and even then was crammed on performance as it looks like more of an emulator. You basically have a remote desktop connection to the other PC.
 
Actually the desktop is wired and the laptop is wireless (5G). I got some lag once this morning but it's actually been working well. might have been downloading something and stopped it. I saw on CPU-Z the processor go to 2.8 so it must be on performance. It would be difficult to go wired for both because I'm renting a room and I'm only really entitled to one cord. I had some issues with opening the game but restarted the laptop and it worked.
 
Have you tried using a switch so you could connect both computers wired. I added a switch and now have 2 laptops and 3 desktops connected to my router over one ethernet connection from my router. I once had 3 desktops running from a switch on the other end of my house and it work great. I am only mentioning this because I believe a wired connection will give you better access to the internet.
Dallas Jack
 
If you have a RJ-45 connection (I assume you do for the desktop connection) then yes you could. The switch would use the same cable that your desktop is connected to but split it into multiple outputs.
Dallas Jack
 
No , not at all. I have used KVM's in the past but the switch I am talking about is a RJ-45 connection. It will allow you to plug in to a single RJ-45 ethernet port and have multiple ports.
 
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