• Playing games on a different PC over a LAN?
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Basically, is it possible for me to connect my Linux netbook to my PC so I see the PC's display on my netbook screen, and can play games on my netbook, using the PC's hardware to process it. Like that cloud computing thing, but just over a LAN. Are there any tools to do that, preferably free ones? I suck so badly at explaining stuff.
but... you're connecting it to a PC why not just use the PC unless you're using like a billion ft ethernet cable
Long story short: You can do it, but even on LAN the delay between input and output is going to make any first person shooter just about unplayable.
Ah OK.
Current methods for controlling a pc via LAN (Remote desktop, VNC, etc) aren't supported by Direct3D/OpenGL. Forget latency issues, the game won't even open.
If you've got gigabit ethernet, you can compress and stream at a very high quality and framerate outside of your standard set of remote desktop programs and protocols. The only thing you'd need VNC for is control inputs. Hell, you could even pipe your HIDs directly to your network controller and skip VNC altogether. However my argument still stands, given the latency caused by the methods it would take to get it working, you're better off just not doing it at all.
[QUOTE=M_u_d;17322221]Current methods for controlling a pc via LAN (Remote desktop, VNC, etc) aren't supported by Direct3D/OpenGL. Forget latency issues, the game won't even open.[/QUOTE] Well you can play games over LAN with streammygame, but the latency ruins it for FPS games
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