Boosting streaming performance at home with Steam
Boosting streaming performance at home with Steam
Hey there! So you're thinking about repurposing an old P4 and some older NVIDIA GPUs for H264 acceleration in your home streaming setup. That's a cool idea—getting those older components to work could save you money and give them a new life. Just make sure you check compatibility and performance limits with the 3.5GHz Pentium. What do you think it might handle?
I've used an Acer Aspire One D255 with Intel Atom n450 (1 core, 2 threads) running at 1.66Ghz as my streaming client. It performed smoothly at 30fps in 480p. My "server PC" is in my profile but runs on a Pentium G645 and GT630. The game I played was Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box. I'm hoping you can boost FPS and resolution with a P4 and GT210. EDIT: the netbook's graphics card is an Intel GMA 3150 with 32Mb of very slow DDR2 memory.
Maintaining wifi connections is optimal when both server and client devices are linked via cables. (Latency can differ significantly over wifi.)
I own an e8400 and a NVIDIA 610 equipped with gigabit Ethernet. Streaming 1080p at 60fps is proving challenging. Switching to a more capable GPU such as the R7 250 might improve performance.
Would running at 30 frames per second be feasible? It sounds like a trial you're planning...