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

[Kris Douglas]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Michael Wood <admin at x3n.me.uk> wrote:
> 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
>>         >
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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
>
> 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

Indeed, and the FPS running Crysis... well.. in this case is a lot
less than a video.

Would be an interesting thing to see when PDA's come into it, HL2 in
the garden using the D-Pad on a PDA...



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