Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:26:19 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: You know what I want? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:26:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-9Tk+JEm110x/QM3UvFMJ92W9SgUzV70pXVf2czuzYbjmnzQu4P298Wy9giqhL/GBsoi/1094LUlEXIh!uhEm+5JLPxCJH25ids3Vx10yCtUY8kPSDzJ8r5iIcKH1/vah8IyZbPDkRwheetNs0Z2EwjZO X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2777 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >So it got me thinking; you know what would be neat? A *personal* >OnLive server, run from my house that could stream the games in my >library to any compatible device I happened to have in front of me. >Now *that* is something I could get behind. Hey 2010 me, this is me from 2025. Are you happy now? 'Cause you got what you want! Home-streaming is one of the many features included in Steam and I can do exactly what I wished for. Sorry... while searching for an old article I happened to stumble across this post of mine, and it amused me that what I thought incredibly unlikely in 2010 is now such an unexceptional add-in that most people don't even know it exists. I've actually used Steam's built-in streaming to use the big at-home gaming rig to play games my much-less powerful laptop struggled with. It works fairly well; my biggest complaint isn't so much to do with the streaming but having to play on a tiny laptop screen with a tiny laptop keyboard. But the actual streaming works pretty well. In 2010, I had a hard time imagining an ordinary PC could not only run a game at ultra-settings but also compress and send the video over the Internet. I think my original assertion that had OnLive [Remember OnLive? They were a very early cloud-gaming streaming service, like GeForce Now except worse and more expensive] sold their server software as a stand-alone product, they probably would have lasted longer. I most likely would have bought it anyway. But I guess it all worked out in the end, seeing as now I get the same thing for free with Steam.