Steam deals with the mouse properly and thus I have had no problem with FPS games and other mouse-look oriented games. Even with a Nvidia cpu (allowing full screen gaming) the mouse sensitivity has issues due to the way they deal with mouse input and the cursor. Steam streaming is just much clearer and in a good network much smoother framerate.Ģ) Splashtop does not work well with mouse look style games. Splashtop gives a little bit of a washed out view due to the video compression (not terrible by any means though, just slightly noticeable). That being said, here are the pros to Steam in house streaming:ġ) It's *much* clearer. ![]() My use case is I have a desktop gaming rig hooked up to my TV, and i use streaming (both methods) to play games on low power laptops/tablets around my house (and occasionally outside of my house) Note that I'm not using the beta steam client so there may be fixes down the pipe that I don't have yet (I got annoyed at keeping both desktop and laptop steam clients in sync). I have used Splashtop to remotely play games to my laptops and Windows RT tablets for 3 months so far, and have been actively playing around with Steam in-home streaming for the past week and a half. I really don't like the way that Nvidia is trying to own this space (with splashtop, shield, shadowplay etc.) and I much prefer Valve's open, platform-agnostic approach. My laptop has an Nvidia chipset and I would say that splashtop is definately snappier when the laptop is the host, but my gaming PC is AMD. I know that splashtop has special features that activate only on hosts with Nvidia graphics cards that are supposed to lower the latency and CPU consumption. Splashtop also doesn't support fullscreen exclusive mode, so in order to test it I had to find a game that used a borderless window. By contrast I can do 720p at 30fps with no noticeable latency with SHS and with much better image quality. It was also using around 3mb/s of bandwidth, so the image quality was highly compressed. The latency was way above what I'd call acceptable, really noticeable if not unplayable. I did some comparisons last night - Splashtop uses about 50% of my quad core CPU and gives me around 20fps in game at the native resolution of my laptop (1440x900).
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