I wonder if Steam remote play would allow me to play my graphic intensive games on a laptop that is nowhere near as powerful as my desktop? Probably would, since my desktop would be doing all the heavy work and my laptop is just streaming the video and sending inputs remotely?
@Kilroy it does, if the network is up to it. It works scarily well in fact.
@jacel Nice! So the only inhibitor will be my internet connection at wherever I happen to be (and whether or not my home wifi is acting up, but as long as my ISP can connect to the gateway I can actually reboot that remotely if necessary)
@Kilroy (I was also assuming the native steam streaming rather than Remote Play Together - games have to opt in to that, I think?)
@jacel Oh yeah I don't do the remote play together (most of my games are either single player or offer online multiplayer as well as (sometimes) couch co-op stuff, but I do think that is a genius idea. I was talking the native streaming so I can play my games when away from the desktop, which is usually when I'm at a hotel. Generally when I'm at home I'm able to access the desktop, so that's never an issue
@Kilroy aha, if you're hitting the internet you'll likely see a more annoying level of latency.
It can work but it's a lot less of a reasonable expectation on consumer connections.
I was assuming LAN-stuff.