System requirements?

[loppantorkel]

What are they for the client, or where do I find them?

[loppantorkel]

It seems I'm unable to stream games to this:
MacBook Pro 2,2
Intel Core 2 Duo
2,16GHz
3GB RAM

I get "Streaming Client Failed" for all games.

[ReBoot]

Well, check for firewalls preventing free communication between the server and the client. Both have to have the discovery port available. No idea what that is, but you can just allow the Steam binary.

[Alpha7]

I believe that "we" the beta testers are the ones who are going to be figure out the system requirements.

I don't believe valve has made any yet and are waiting from feedback from the betas.


I'm 2 out of 4 for computers that can handle the streaming, although the two that didn't work are like 7+ year old PC and a 10+ year old laptop.

[blaklabz]

I've seen people running streaming on ATOM processors. I would agree with ReBoot sounds like a networking issue. Also are you running a solid connection? Correct me if i'm wrong gents, but I do believe it's Ethernet>moca>powerline>wireless. So it's best to stream things on a solid connection without spikes. I'm running my SteamOS/Streaming over MoCa and it works GREAT!

[Kablammo]

Certainly sounds like a networking issue. I have a MacBook Pro 13" (late 2011) and I can stream most games in my library, any failures have been due to game compatabilities I believe. Also stream to my little media box which is running on an AMD A6 with 4gb of ram (win8) and again that runs very well on games that don't just error out in the first place (also I'm suffering from a bad network in general as I'm using HomePlugs in an old building which I think is where I get most of my problems)

[[ROTT] hackman]

Do you guys think I would be able to stream to a Pentium 4 at 2.8 GHz? My dad's PC is too weak to handle Train Simulator 2014 and I would like to stream it to his PC.
However I really don't wanna go through all the trouble if some of you guys can tell me beforehand that a Pentium 4 won't be able to handle the decoding...

[gobZ]

I just tested this last night, streamed to my gf's laptop which i had plugged into the big tv. it is actually my mums old laptop, specs - p4 2.2ghz, 2gigs ram everything else is bad obviously. i played the new thief flawlessly across a wireless connection, in short they have done a freaking good job on this and client specs dont need to be high at all.

was going to get a ps4 for convenience but now might just make a rubbish media centre pc with a blue ray drive lol

very impressed.

[BlueBlur92]

I'm streaming to an Intel Celeron 900 @ 2.2GHz, it's a single core entry level Toshiba laptop. It uses Intel integrated HD graphic with 128MB of VRAM, and only 2GB of system RAM (the VRAM is shared with the system RAM). I am doing this over wireless, and other than the occasional lag spike, I have been able to run most everything I own. Games like Dungeon Defenders, Assassin's Creed III and Sonic Generations generally play well, while my heavily modded Skyrim and Castle Crashers (for whatever reason) are a bit too stuttery for my taste.

[wt7]

A week ago it wouldn't work, but now streaming to HP Mini 210-1000 ..... Intel Atom with integrated graphics. I'd say they (minimum hardware requirements) are pretty low.

[wt7]

↑ wireless

[GrackleBOI1938]

If I were to make a minimum requirement for this, I would say that the host machine and the client machine's NICs should both be capable of at least150 - 200 Mbps Transfer rate and a router that can handle that can handle that much bandwidth. In most of my testing, I had my bandwidth set to unlimited, and the estimated allocated bandwidth for most games hovered around 45-50 Mbps, so I guess the Minimum would be set around 30 ish? Any thoughts, because other than that, it seems like the only hardware requirements on the client machine are the the same requirements that would make it good at streaming from netflix or onlive or any other streaming service.

[GrackleBOI1938]

And this may go without saying, but when it comes to wireless, 5GHz seems to be much more preferable to 2.4GHz. I have a dual band wireless card on my client PC (err, tablet) and I've tested on both bands. I've also tested it on my ten year old tough book with xubuntu with moderate results.