Minimize Game's Window just on Streaming PC

[GiNgiLLo]

Hi all,

I am testing this new feature "Steam In-Home Streaming" that is really awesome and useful.
Since now, I did not have any problem, using a wireless connection I just need to lower the details to minimize the lags; But I have always had more than decent results (In the future I will opt for a wired connection).

However, I think that a very fundamental and necessary feature is missing. Indeed, it is very useful if you can stream your game from a strong pc to a notebook, such that you can play your game on television, but it wuold be really better if you could uses your strong PC also for other functions during the streaming.

In a practical way, the problem is that if you minimize the window corresponding to the game on the strong PC that is running the game, the same happens to the PC that is receiving the streaming.

This is very bad, because in this way your strong PC that is running the game is not avaiable for other uses and functions.

If another one of my family wants to use the strong PC, while I am playing to the notebook, receiving the streaming from the strong PC, it is impossible. Because if this person minimizes the windows of the game on the strong computer to do something else (using the browser for example) the same happens to the notebook and we cannot simultaneously doing some things.

This means that Steam In-Home streaming block 2 computers, whereas you are using just one.

I think that it is a main and fundamental feature that you would have to add.

Just give the possibility to minimize the window of the game on the pc that is running the game, such that the same minimization does not happen on the other PC, in this way the pc that is streaming can be always used also for other stuffes.

Thank,

Good Work!

[Bizzquik]

I was just thinking the same think.
It would be nice if the host computer could just run Steam in the background so that all other functionality of the host computer could be done at the same time, too. (Web browsing, media watching, etc)

Requiring the main computer to be fully occupied by Steam essentially means two computers in the household are unavailable for other family members to use.

I hope Valve is working on a way to run In-Home Streaming in the background (or minimized as just another active program on the Windows start menu).

[Agmy]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/522730700096587625/

[GiNgiLLo]

This sounds really good, but I still think that would be a feature directly offered by Steam In-Home. I still believe that Valve absolutely have to add in some way this feature directly in Steam In-Home without the need of any other software, hardly asked by the greater part of the community.

However, very good and interesting advice!
Thank!

[a1s2_kk]

Yes this is a main feature of the streaming. Otherwise it is just a VNC.

[The Duck of Destiny]

What if an alternate user was created and logged-on on the host computer and have that run the streamed game, and have others just use the main profile for normal use (e.g. web browsing and the like)? It would solve the problem of having it run in the background.