Is there a way to stream from the host computer without having the video played on it.

[a1s2_kk]

I want to ask if there is a way to stream from the host computer having the game run in background so that the host computer can be used to work without recognizing the game (seeing it on the screen and hearing the sound).

At the moment it looks like the steam streaming is just a normal VNC playing the host screen and sound on the remote computer and allowing impute from the remote key and moues. When the game is minimized on the host computer it also minimize the game on the remote computer.

It would be great if I could game remotely and the screen and sound from the host computer is not occupied by the game and also the inputs from the remote computer are not shown on the host computer. Like steam on the host would act as a server running in the background and not as a VNC.

[ReBoot]

You have to use virtualization.

[yayuuu]

Partial solution (without using virtualisation) would be to connect a dummy plug ( http://rumorscity.com/2013/12/06/how-to-create-dummy-plugs-for-your-graphics-cards/ ) to your PC so it can detect 2 monitors, move the game to that 2nd monitor and stream it from there. I'm not sure how the steam server sends input to the game, but I think that it might move your real cursor and keyboard. Even if it does, you can still watch the movie on the real screen while playing the game on your fake monitor.

Btw, are there any virtual machines for windows that supports direct X and can run the games?

[[masni] CYKA CLEANER]

Originally posted by yayuuu:

Btw, are there any virtual machines for windows that supports direct X and can run the games?

not really (atleast not cheap :))... only on linux

[ReBoot]

Virtual Box might do the trick.

[TheGuyWho]

There has been a few discussions about this. One way you can do it on a windows system is use the dummy plug option like its been stated above and use something like softxpand to allow for a seperate instance of a desktop to be run at the same time as the one you are using so you can run games that will not affect what you are doing etc (turns your one pc into 2 in a sense). As for virtual machines, theres a few options you can use here. ESXI allows pci passthrough so you could load a windows vm and just give it the video card to do rendering etc instead. There have been a few people who have got this working within the group here and its a good idea if you already have a spare box kinda doing nothing that you want to use however its not so much a good idea if you just have the one machine. You could in theory just buy another card and create 2 vm's one with each card and then use one as your own machine and then use the other as your steam stream box if you wished to but that would be overly complicated compared tot he first option up the top and well. if you are not going to do anything more with it then yeah. its just a waste.

Anyway hope this points you in the right direction, if you do a little bit of searching on here you can find more details about how it works, or just shoot me an invite and ill try and help out.

[yayuuu]

Originally posted by TheGuyWho:

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Wow, thanks! I never heard about softxpand. It sounds like a really good idea.

Currently my PC is a headless station, that I'm streaming games from this to laptop. I have a dummy plug as the only monitor, but I wonder if I could put 2 plugs and run 2 steam clients at once, then stream games to 2 separate clients. That might be a really nice game-server ;)

[a1s2_kk]

Thanks for the suggestion using the dummy plug option.