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David Wolfe Sep 21, 2014 @ 7:26am
PowerPC? Is it possible?
I know that Steam doesn't support PowerPC.
But..
Is there SOME possible way that I'm able to get it to work?
I really am not looking to actually play Steam games on PowerPC, I just wanna use the streaming feature.
I am aware of Limelight, however that only works on Nvidia cards if the host has it. However, the host (my laptop) has an intergated AMD card (don't kill me, I'm going to get either the Alienware Alpha or Cyberpower PC.

Host:
AMD Sepron
1GB DDR2 ram
Amd Integrated Graphic card
Lubuntu

Receiver:
Debian
PowerPC
256mb of ram.
Intergated Graphic Card (AMD)

Thank's for the help guys. Much appreciation. So much wow.
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kreiselhoschi Sep 21, 2014 @ 8:12am 
You answered yourself in the first line. ;)
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David Wolfe Sep 21, 2014 @ 8:56am 
Originally posted by kreiselhoschi:
You answered yourself in the first line. ;)

Welp, glad we got that sorted.
So let me get this straight.
There is NO way to stream steam games to PowerPC computers?
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XÆЯO_Vince Sep 21, 2014 @ 10:04am 
You might be able to get something to work with "xrdp-ng" on your host Steam PC and a PPC compiled build of FreeRDP client on your Debian PPC box. Xrdp-ng can provide experimental RemoteFX support to remote 3D graphics but its all very experimental.

This might be helpful info:

http://sourceforge.net/p/freerdp/mailman/message/31292375/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVwrq563czY
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rrrrex Sep 22, 2014 @ 1:40am 
I'm not sure about host machine. I have phenom x4 920 and with 2 threads software encoder i can afford only 720p@30fps. My client machine has core i5 mobile cpu, with power saving mode and software decoder it can't compute that 720p@30fps fas enough. So if we go back to your machines, we can see, that they probably will not cope with 480p@30fps. What else would you expect from 10 years old computers? Probably, your host machine can deal with decoding.
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kreiselhoschi Sep 23, 2014 @ 9:19am 
Neither the host, nor the client will be capable to handle this. Remeber: the host has to do the encoding PLUS running the game... well, Solitaire might work, but there´s no sense in streaming this. Adding the RDP server needed to run on the host, it will even raise the load.

The client will most probably not be able to run it´s OS and decode the stream. Besides, the 256MB RAM are shared with the integrated graphics, too. It might be able to decode an ultra-low encoded stream in software, but where´s the fun in that? Image quality will make you think you´ll have eye cancer.
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David Wolfe Sep 23, 2014 @ 9:43am 
Thank you all for the help. I will be getting a new computer and I will be finding a way to put use to that...
That...
256mb computer...
Even the Raspberry Pi has more ram than that...
And a better processor.
0_0
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kreiselhoschi Sep 23, 2014 @ 12:37pm 
Yeah. It has, indeed. Peas and pears... ;)

By the way: are you german? At least speaking german?
Last edited by kreiselhoschi; Sep 23, 2014 @ 12:39pm
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David Wolfe Sep 23, 2014 @ 12:46pm 
Originally posted by kreiselhoschi:
Yeah. It has, indeed. Peas and pears... ;)

By the way: are you german? At least speaking german?

I do know a bit of German. I'm not 100% German but maybe 10% because my grandmother is a native German.
I am Asian-British due to the Asian part from my parents and the British part because I was born in Britain.

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