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From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
6 Sep 2014 22:32
To: milko
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Last gen used AMD too (on the xbox at least) and it didn't help. Consoles just use them cos they're cheaper I think, same reason low-end gaming laptops do.
If they actually see Gallium through things may change but... yeah, not holding my breasts.
From: koswix
6 Sep 2014 23:33
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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Cool. I will start watching out for deals then.
How many gigabytes tbh is normal these days? I have 8 tbh in my laptop. And a GT 750m. And an i5. Hang on, why don't I just get an hdmi cable?
EDITED: 6 Sep 2014 23:34 by KOSWIX
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
7 Sep 2014 00:34
To: koswix
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You can get by on 4, 8's ideal.
From: Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)
12 Sep 2014 11:23
To: koswix
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On a slightly different note, I nearly shit myself with glee yesterday.
I have an (old) gaming rig, Core 2 Duo but with plenty of RAM and a decent graphics card...it'll play everything I'm interested in (strategy games, Civ and the like). This is upstairs in an office and I rarely get to play games these days. I've recently reinstalled this PC from scratch, installed Steam for the first time in about 2 years, an noticed a feature I'd not heard of. In-home streaming.
I have a Lenovo Q190 running Windows 8.1 & XBMC as a HTPC in the living room, so I thought I'd give this a go...now my main machine is below Valve's recommended specs (Quad) but what the hell, I'm not playing fast-paced racing games and the like, and I have a wired (over powerline) network.
So, last night, I was playing X-Com on my dirty great big telly and it was bloody brilliant...had a crack at Anno 2070 as well, and although I kept getting slow encode warnings, and the occassionally blocky/fuzzy image, it was perfectly playable. I love this feature, it's the shizzle.
I don't know why I have said all this.
From: ANT_THOMAS
12 Sep 2014 12:40
To: Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)
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Well I didn't know about in-home streaming. Shame it's now working on Linux yet.
It may well be something that gets me back into some gaming.
From: Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)
12 Sep 2014 13:03
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Everything I've read says it's now working on linux...haven't got a linux box to test it though.
From: ANT_THOMAS
12 Sep 2014 13:24
To: Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)
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But no 64bit client
:(
Means I can't use an OpenElec system as the frontend.
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)
12 Sep 2014 13:45
To: Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)
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So... this could be quite interesting if it works as seamlessly as they imply. I've got gigabit ports in the office and next to the TV, so that part's sorted. All I really need is a quiet PC capable of handling the TV-side stuff - I wonder if one of the Intel i3 or i5 NUCs would do that well enough? I do have my current Q9550 PC (due for an upgrade very soon) which I could re-purpose, but I'm not sure how quiet I could make it, and it's a full-size ATX motherboard.
From: ANT_THOMAS
12 Sep 2014 13:48
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR)
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I'll have a look but isn't it just a case of decoding a video (or similar) at the client end? So nothing too beefy would be required.
I imagine an i3 or i5 NUC would be fine (that's total speculation though).
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
12 Sep 2014 18:31
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Anything that can decode h.264 should be fine on the client end. My netbook works fine (over wifi, amazingly, though I hear wired is really recommended).
But yeah, home streaming is pretty cool. And you can stream anything, doesn't have to be a game and it doesn't have to be on Steam. You can add any program to Steam and then stream that.