[ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

[Michael Wood]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:59 +0100, James Grabham wrote:
> Gigabit Ethernet probabally would be.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Chris Rowson
>         <christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Interesting in the newest computer games but can't run them
>         because
>         > you're on Linux?
>         >
>         > Stream My Game now allows for a Windows gaming PC to stream
>         it's
>         > output and accept input from a Linux based PC. Basically,
>         this means
>         > you can set up a headless Windows box on your home network,
>         put your
>         > cutting edge games like Crysis / Quake 4 etc onto this
>         'server' PC,
>         > and access them from your Linux based PC.
>         >
>         > The video I link to shows a guy running cutting edge games
>         in this
>         > manner on an Asus Eee PC.
>         >
>         > Demonstration video here ->
>         > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/17/crysis_on_eee_pc/
>         >
>         > Product website here ->
>         http://www.streammygame.com/smg/index.php
>         >
>         > Cheers
>         >
>         > Chris
>         >
>         > --
>         > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>         > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
>         > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
>         >
>         
>         
>         Hmm, I wonder if a network would be capable of handling very
>         high
>         refresh rates of modern gaming systems... Sounds like an
>         interesting
>         idea.
>         
>         --
>         Kris Douglas
>          Softdel Limited Hosting Services
>          Web: www.softdel.net
>          Mail: kris at softdel.net
>         
>         Company No. 6135915
>         Registered in England
>         
>         
>         --
>         ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>         https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mr JE Grabham 

Er... The video shows the EEE using wifi, It's not massively amazing as
you can stream movies over pretty small amounts of bandwidth with a bit
of cache and or the right compression. granted a movie doesn't quite
have the same fps but it's not that far off.

keyboard and mouse movements don't need much bandwidth either. 

Still pretty cool though

Michael