The streaming quality from a gaming PC to a laptop is not ideal—do you know if there are superior options available?
The streaming quality from a gaming PC to a laptop is not ideal—do you know if there are superior options available?
Hi everyone, my gaming laptop is running slowly and seems to have issues with its graphics card. One of the two SLI cards appears to be failing, causing crashes and driver problems—SLI hasn’t worked for more than a couple of hours. I’m thinking about switching to a dedicated gaming PC for streaming, since my home doesn’t have enough space for a full desktop. However, using Steam’s in-home streaming with my boyfriend’s PC gave me only mediocre results, especially for non-steam titles like World of Warcraft. The visuals are washed out, there’s heavy compression, and the images feel slightly blurry. My laptop is a Lenovo Y510p with GTX 755m cards; does that matter? My boyfriend’s system runs a GTX 970 with an overclocked i7, and the problems seem to be on my end only. I’ve tried adjusting the streaming settings and using unlimited bandwidth, but it still isn’t great. The laptop is connected to WiFi, while my PC has a gigabit link to the router. Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!
I hope I could connect Steam to a console. Probably, with a long HDMI cable I could use the second HDMI port.
Which games are you all playing? Are they the same as before or something new? Outdated drivers would make the artifacts look bad, or the graphics might be too intense for your 755m. You might want to fully remove the drivers and then reinstall them.
When using wireless streaming without a wired connection, ensure your router supports AC power and consider a 2.4GHz model for better performance. Otherwise, slower speeds might affect activities like high-quality video streaming.
@ZeusXI , we tried Skyrim and World of Warcraft, both on Ultra settings. Are you talking about the laptop SLI not working? Because in that case, it has never worked, and I have kept my drivers updated for the 2 years I've had it, so I'm confident drivers aren't the issue. @DXMember , I would, but as I said in my post, there is nowhere in my house to have a full desktop setup sadly. That's the only reason I'm looking in to this solution. @Sors and @Mr.Meerkat , That is probably the problem. We have a non-AC router that's connected to an AC router (giving us two networks, 2.4 GHz and 5GHz), however my laptop is unfortunately not capable of AC wifi. My connection to the router is max. 30 Mbps when we have a 100 Mbps internet connection, but I will test it having the laptop plugged in to the router.
Regardless of your internet speed, what matters most is the amount of data your devices and router can process together. Your laptop is limited to about 30Mbps on a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connection. If you connect it via Ethernet and all three devices support 1Gbps, then the total bandwidth would reach 1Gbps.