I'm not looking to stream play onto a 3rd machine. Games which ran really poorly on my HTPC, like F1 2013 and Prototype, run perfectly on my Mac via the Bootcamp Windows partition, and are Windows versions of the games. Will be trying this out later tonight for sureĬlick to expand.Most my games are Windows only, hence the partitioning, but the Windows partition of my Mac is still more powerful than my Windows HTPC.
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Now I can essentially utilise the power of the Mac, and stream Steam over my WiFi to my lesser Windows PC which is sitting under my telly already. I have a "lesser" PC which is already hooked up to my telly but is not powerful enough to run a lot of the games I have, which is why I partitioned Windows onto my Mac in the first place, as that's far better spec than my Windows PC. Now though, seems I can scrap that plan, forget about the long display port cable I have stretching across my front room, and take advantage of this instead. I also got a display port 3m cable to stretch from my Mac to my larger telly. I have a wired 360 pad which I use on it, but I just yesterday ordered one of those wireless receivers for the wireless 360 pads, so I can use one of the wireless ones and kick back on my sofa while playing. It's good, but wasn't enough HDD allocation really, so I removed it, partitioned again but with 500GB this time, plenty space for games now Sounds great, I just the other week removed the Windows VM I had on my Mac, partitioned 100GB with Bootcamp and installed Windows on there just for Steam, to enjoy Big Picture mode.
You can load the operating system, as it is entirely open source, but none of the Steam components.Īnywho, hope that helps answer your questions. Now where the unfortunate bit about the closed source comes in is that that includes their streaming: I had in mind of a cheap ARM machine (possibly even the Pandora or Pyra) that would use SteamOS to stream games from a networked Windows machine, but apparently that isn't possible.
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What it is also bringing to the table is a streaming feature: if you have a Windows PC with Steam installed you can have your SteamOS connected to your TV streaming the audio and video from your Windows PC (which is able to run the games that down't have Linux modes) over the network.
You boot your "TV PC" and it starts steam and there are all the games you've bought that have Linux equivalents. Now, for starters it is a Linux client so all their current Linux offerings will (should) just work. As I understand it, the client is still entirely closed source which is unfortunate as I'll come to in a moment. SteamOS is a Linux based operating system that idealy has the Steam client built into it.
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