sujith Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 A new stable Steam client update has been released by Valve and the developers have finally enabled In-Home Streaming for everyone.The In-Home Streaming feature allows users to stream games from a Windows operating system to a Linux-powered machine that also runs Steam. This is the solution proposed by Valve that practically enables Linux gamers to play any Windows-only titles, although it's rather cumbersome, to say the least.Like any other major Steam update, the latest has been preceded by a flurry of smaller ones in the Beta branch of the software. This is basically just a collection of those features and fixes that were already available for all users of Steam Beta.According to the changelog, the handling of corrupt data during downloads has been fixed, several small memory leaks in the Steam client have been corrected, a rare crash that occurred when workshop image update was performed inside the library details view has been fixed, DLCs can now be disabled in the DLC properties page for a game, and some AppVerifier errors and warnings caused by Steam that could make it hard for games to use AppVerifier have been fixed.The other big feature that is being worked on by Valve developers is called Big Picture. This is an interface for Steam designed to work on big screens and controlled with the mouse or gamepad. Big Picture is more than just a skin for Steam, which means that a lot of extra effort is needed to make it function as it should.This latest update for Steam introduced a large number of changes and fixes for Big Picture. For example, a new profile section has been added to the main menu in order to replace the old community section, all games are now filtered by default "On Platform" rather than "All Games" if you are not on Windows, the pending friends invitations are now collapsing into a single friends list entry, and a case where after accepting a friend invite on the web it would only be partially updated has been fixed.Also, the Big Picture movie audio and video synchronization has been improved, the performance in some cases with the Big Picture window has been improved on the Linux platform, the movie playback support and the support for animated gifs has been improved as well, and adding non-Steam games is now directly supported in Big Picture.SourceOfficial Announcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Linux Users Can Now Play Windows Games on Steam with In-Home StreamingWow, Linux!!!After a being around for more than 2 decades - that must be quite an achievement. :clap: :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizin Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Now the gap between the two OS's will shrink....but I assume a very fast internet connection is required to stream games, just like what Onlive requires . I have a 14Mbps line but still games stream at a snail's pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodel Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Now the gap between the two OS's will shrink....but I assume a very fast internet connection is required to stream games, just like what Onlive requires . I have a 14Mbps line but still games stream at a snail's pace.You're kinda of right in that yes you do need a fast net connection, but what actually happens here is that you have one box with your steam on it, and then you stream to another box in your house, so you ideally need to hardwire the two, you also need a high end spec pc for the one your streaming too, where the one host machine can be medium range, but needs a fair decent GPU to handle the streaming.I expect this is laying the grounds for the steambox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#return 1337 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) So, this requires you to have a separate Windows box, running Windows, with a dedicated graphics card?What the fuck is this point of this?Might as well use the Windows box. Edited May 23, 2014 by #return 1337 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 yes it is, just test streaming on windows.....anyone? have tried steam on linux..share here please,,thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) more details about above topic here you go >>>>>>>>>>>>>http://store.steampowered.com/streamingSupport article for troubleshooting go here >>>>>>>>>>>>>https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3629-RIAV-1617Enjoy.. Steam streamingmy Shadow.97 game Library Edited May 23, 2014 by iih1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) @sujithForgot to say...thanks nice sharing. for who love Steam..i guess.. Edited May 23, 2014 by iih1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hated On Mostly Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 So, this requires you to have a separate Windows box, running Windows, with a dedicated graphics card?What the fuck is this point of this?Might as well use the Windows box.It's part of Valve's goal to bring PC gaming into the living room and reduce PC gaming's dependence on Microsoft who make a lot of decisions Valve does not like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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