[feature-request] steam in-home-streaming

Hello everyone

Steam is currently testing its In-Home-Streaming-Feature. As a user of the Steam-Beta-Client I had the chance of using this feature and I am very amazed. Short wrapup: with this Steam-Version you can stream any game in your local network from one machine to another with less power.

Currently AC is able to start (tested with 3D-accelerated Launcher) but you can only see the background-image. I guess this is due to the fact that the launcher is implemented with HTML. This seems to be a problem for the streaming host-to capture the image but of course it is a great thing for customization (modding).
So I dont know if there is a way to make the current launcher Steam-streaming ready or if this is something that the modding community could provide...maybe in form of a custom launcher which is implemented with a classic 3d-executable.

The second point is the wheel, which is currently not forwarded from host or client. But the steam-guys are already working on it. As far as I know the interface for joysticks (and wheels?) is DirectInput. So maybe the AC-guys could speak with the steam developers to understand the streaming technology and decide if it would be possible for AC to be streamed using a wheel in the future. For example latency is more important in a racing game than in a RTS.

Why is streaming cool? I can only speak for myself but a decent GPU makes a lot of noise so this is nothing I want to have in my living room. And playing AC on a big TV is great but my HTPC (AMD Richland APU) struggles with more than Hotlapping. In a Race the FPS drops to 20 whereas my Desktop runs smooth at 50-60 which much higher graphics. So streaming the game would be a blast

 

does anyone know if there has been any progress on this issue. Just tired today and it still seems to be unsupported.

 

Currently my cockpit is setup in a room where I don't have a dedicated PC. The only thing preventing me from purchasing this game is the lack of in-home streaming support.

I'm sure most have a dedicated sim PC, but some of us would like to be able to have 1 PC that can run multiple content for each room of the house.

 

I'm shocked this is still not supported. Come on guys, it's been over 2 years.

For anyone else struggling with this, what I do is launch the game remotely with TightVNC, start racing, close TightVNC and then start in-home streaming. This works but it's a huge pain, and I still have to do controller setup physically at the host PC.