On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Michael Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Chris Rowson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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@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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Company No. 6135915 >> Registered in England >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@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
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... -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
