Is it possible to stream non Steam games?

[Surogat]

Is it currently or will it in future possible to stream non Steam games that are added to the library?

[Doc Shenanigans]

I'd like to know this as well.

[Storm]

In it's current stage you can only stream Steam Games

[8BitCerberus]

When you say "only Steam games" do you mean only games you can actually buy on Steam, or that it just doesn't work to stream games you launch outside of Steam. If the former, damn... hopefully this gets added. If it's the latter though, have you tried adding the game as a non-Steam game to your Steam library and see if it streams then?

I've got several games like Mincraft, Diablo 1-3, Starcraft 1&2, several GoG Windows and DOSBox games, and a few prototypes from various Humble Bundles that only exist as stand-alone, Morrowind: GoTY discs (though this one I re-bought on Steam during the winter sale). Would be nice to be able to stream these by adding them to my Steam library as non-Steam games.

[Storm]

Only games that have been purchased from the Steam store.

[puntloos]

How's this for an answer: Of course it's possible. Valve just needs to see that this is a feature people would like to see.

That said, there are already plenty of solutions for this (look up VNC, for example) so they might choose to focus on other things first, rather than worry about all the (security!) implications of taking control of someone else's desktop rather than just 'playing a game'.

[Storm]

You can control the desktop within the current Home Streaming, simply alt tab on the host machine

[XÆЯO_Vince]

Originally posted by Matt:

You can control the desktop within the current Home Streaming, simply alt tab on the host machine

Have you tried launching any non-Steam games or even programs like Microsoft Office? That would be neat to see.

[fearlessfrog]

Ok, couldn't resist

Here's FIFA 14 via Origin, being played on a Mac(!) via Steam Home Streaming:

http://i.imgur.com/P9BasnL.jpg

[Storm]

Originally posted by fearlessfrog:

Ok, couldn't resist :D:

Here's FIFA 14 via Origin, being played on a Mac(!) via Steam Home Streaming:

http://i.imgur.com/P9BasnL.jpg

How did you get it to launch? Did you just alt tab out to desktop? Non-Steam doesn't show in my game list

[fearlessfrog]

Yep, just ALT - TAB, it's just using the desktop. I have 3 screen eyefinity, so I can just use another monitor and slide stuff in.

Here's a fun one. A desktop view of the desktop streaming to a Mac OSX, that's um, streaming back. Infinite Home Streaming!

http://i.imgur.com/00tbe6O.jpg

[Storm]

Yeah, just tested it myself. While nice, a official solution would be great

[nobread]

Originally posted by fearlessfrog:

Yep, just ALT - TAB, it's just using the desktop. I have 3 screen eyefinity, so I can just use another monitor and slide stuff in.

Here's a fun one. A desktop view of the desktop streaming to a Mac OSX, that's um, streaming back. Infinite Home Streaming! :D:

http://i.imgur.com/00tbe6O.jpg

lol thats great. Hope steam 'ignores' this 'bug'

[EndTimeKeeper]

yeah I found that if you hit alt tab you can do any thing you want with it you can open browsers watch movies run benchmarks any thing really lol. I found the best game to launch to start the stream is the first tomb raider as its really old and hardly takes any power to run.

[RockandGrohl]

Yeah of course it does. I've been playing Witcher 2 (bought retail) DmC, Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham etc and all I did was add them to my Steam list. Ez Pz.

[fearlessfrog]

Originally posted by RockandGrohl:

Yeah of course it does. I've been playing Witcher 2 (bought retail) DmC, Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham etc and all I did was add them to my Steam list. Ez Pz.

This is a new feature added during the beta, as a lot of these posts were made before the streaming non-steam library entries got added.