Customer asked about remote gaming is it possible?

[Galdorf]

A customer asked if he could control a game remote i have tried this before with remote desktop software logmein ect. framerates are horrible as it is not designed for games is there anything that is?.
Must be something out there that can steam video at a decent rate.

 

[14049752]

Not a chance.

There is a server side gaming service called OnLive, but it's still in very early stages. If you live in very specific areas, it'll work for you, but outisde that you're going to get bad latency issues.

Same with trying to do it through residential broadband. Most games aren't going to play nice with any kind of remote desktop solution, let alone the insane amount of lag it'd introduce to the controls and feedback.

 

[iisjman07]

Would be a very nice thing to be able to do, but realistically I'm sure this can't be done atm

 

[Majestic]

A customer asked if he could control a game remote i have tried this before with remote desktop software logmein ect. framerates are horrible as it is not designed for games is there anything that is?.
Must be something out there that can steam video at a decent rate.

While this can't be done at the moment due to terrible framerates, there are many games that can be played from anywhere without a very powerful machine and they are free as well.

Battlefield Heroes and Quake Live are just two that come to mind. There are more.

Majestic

 

[Galdorf]

Ok after half an hour of googling i came up with this:
StreamMyGame
it streams the video as video and has a remote program sort of like capturing game video compressing it then stream it out 640x480 for free.
It works much better than using remote access program.

 

[14049752]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about StreamMyGame. I tried it for like a day a while ago. Didn't work so well for me, but it's worth trying.

 

[Galdorf]

Then there is ONLIVE as well not sure how good it is though guess ill have to try it. You can play games from them remote say on an ipad or laptop,iphone,itouch you basically rent the game to play remote sounds interesting.

 

[14049752]

I mentioned Onlive in my first post.
OnLive has two problems. If you're not close to their servers, the games are (reportedly) unplayable. It's not widely available. You have to sign up and get on a waiting list and hope that your broadband and computer speed is fast enough.
You also can't play the games on your actual computer. Maybe this isn't an issue, but if the guy wanted to play WoW remotely for some reason, he couldn't.


To elaborate on my StreamMyGame problems, the games would play reasonably well across my lan. Over the internet, though, forget it. It also seemed to take a LOT of CPU power on the system that was running the game. I think that was a year and a half ago that I tried it, but I'm not sure.