Stream from and play on one computer

[Septus]

Right now, I have a good desktop and an average laptop. My brother also has an average laptop. The laptops can barely run planetside 2, not quite well enough to play. Is there a way I can stream to a laptop planetside 2 from my desktop and also play it on the desktop too? If not it would be great to add this. I am sure I am not the only person in this situation. I don't see much point in streaming if you can't do this.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Septus:

Right now, I have a good desktop and an average laptop. My brother also has an average laptop. The laptops can barely run planetside 2, not quite well enough to play. Is there a way I can stream to a laptop planetside 2 from my desktop and also play it on the desktop too? If not it would be great to add this. I am sure I am not the only person in this situation. I don't see much point in streaming if you can't do this.

I fail to see the point in it. Do you wish to stream to an external device which won't play the game.
In that case, you may as well wish to use 3rd party streaming sites, which offer the function to stream to games for others to spectate. Unless I missed something ?

[Septus]

I want to be able to play on my desktop and stream the game running it a second time on same comp, to laptop for my bro to play with me.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Septus:

I want to be able to play on my desktop and stream the game running it a second time on same comp, to laptop for my bro to play with me.

If planetside 2 support local coop and you simply wish to make as if you had two input sources, I can see the interest in that, even thought I'd be curious about the technical stuff behind it.

Otherwise, if it's "Run two instances of a game for the price of one" (say, if two people were to play the same game at the same time), it's unlikely to happen, as family sharing were to be restricted against that.

Should I failed yet again to grasp the point, please do enlighten me, as my English skills are probably insufficient for me to understand.

[Septus]

planetside 2 is free. My brother has own steam account and ps2 account. this is not about getting things for free it is for playing a game on a bad comp as streaming was intended to do. In this case it is just that I want to be able to play on the comp that is treaming in a second instance of the game.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Septus:

planetside 2 is free. My brother has own steam account and ps2 account. this is not about getting things for free it is for playing a game on a bad comp as streaming was intended to do. In this case it is just that I want to be able to play on the comp that is treaming in a second instance of the game.

Oh, ok, I got it : logged to two Steam accounts on the same computer, one who streams the game, the other who plays it. Sorry for taking so long to understand.

Well, while this may be nice, I do wonder if such a thing is technically possible, as I'm unaware of the internal functioning of the client.

[Septus]

i was able to get logged in to 2 accounts, but hit a wall after streaming to other comp, since you cant just minimize the streamed game and start another beacuse that breaks streaming to do so.

[Black Blade]

I think the only way to really do it will be to using a virtual machine, using something like VirtualBox even that i am unsure abut setting the input, as well as something like that will really eat up resources

To allow something like that from Steam i think will take way too much power from mosts PC's, and you will need a strong PC to do so, i think the only real way for something like these to work is if the games will be build to allow it, as in to run it as two games from one

So over all i really do not think it will be done from Steam it self as it will take too much resources making it unusable for most users

But its just my guess

[Spawn of Totoro]

While Steam does offer a streaming service from one computer to another, it would be very hard to run the same game simultaneously, with one local and one Steaming. As Black Blade pointed out, the system resources needed would have to be doubled at the least. This isn't taking into account the resources and network activity needed for Streaming.

While one day a system that powerful may exist for home use, this isn't that day. What you are asking to do isn't possible at this time due to hardware constraints more so then software.

The point of streaming allow a computer that can't handle the game, play the game. It was made so that you can use the SteamBox in another room and still have access to your entire game library, not to allow a computer to run the same game two times over.

[martin]

Agree with Black Blade, apart from the power requirement (cpu power not psu power).

My (now old) gameing comp has a quad core with threading and 32G. It could host. And I don't think that's anything special.

Assuming both of your computers are Intel based and that they are on the same hard wired network, you could try enabling 'Large packets' via the control panel. It's importannt that you do this on both computers. This won't help speed up internet access but it might speed up your local exchanges a bit - assuming that they both have gig ethernet faclity. Strange rewording of my last word, facility, nothing to do with me.

[Septus]

I am able to run 2 planetside 2s, 1 minimized and 1 playing, with some drop fps and my 8gb of ram running at 85% used but game is still playable. This is done by using a virtual machine. ps2 is an above average graphical game and since I can do that with it, i could probably do it on 90% of other steam games. The problem is that the streaming cant view the minimized game, it views my screen and controls my cursor.