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

[Kris Douglas]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:59 PM, James Grabham <jgrabham at googlemail.com> 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
>> >
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>> >
>>
>> Hmm, I wonder if a network would be capable of handling very high
>> refresh rates of modern gaming systems... Sounds like an interesting
>> idea.
>>
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>
>
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> Mr JE Grabham
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>

An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but
people were taking about this working on the web? No way.

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