Valve makes Steam In-Home Streaming available for everyone

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Valve has been remote-desktopdienst for Steam open for everyone. With the service users within their own home network to install games and play from each system to which they are on Steam to be logged in. Steam In-Home Streaming works on multiple operating systems.

With In-Home Streaming lets Valve games on a high end system to run, to stream over the home network to other computers. Thus, users can, for example, on their laptop or htpc gaming, even if that itself is not powerful enough. Users can also games remotely install and start, and they can play a game on system A and this continue on system B. On all systems the user must be on Steam to be logged in.

Valve recommends for the central game system with a quadcore-cpu-to-use, while the clients can use a gpu with h.264 acceleration. In addition, the service the best using a wired network, according to Valve. With a hitch, users can adjust the settings to speed takes precedence over image quality and vice versa, they can reduce bandwidth. The client runs on Windows, OS X, and Steam OS/Linux, but the host can only run on Windows draaien.De the service ran from the end of april already in beta for a limited group of users, and at present it is still a beta, but now anyone can use it.

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