I’ve gotten back into my Steam library because of NVidia’s GeForce Now service, but there’s a handful of games I own but can’t play because the publishers won’t let NVidia stream them. The most resource intensive game I’m interested in is probably Batman: Arkham City, though I’d also like to use Dolphin to emulate some older Wii/GC games. What I’d like to do is add to my stable of NUCs/NUC-like systems in my networking closet, and stream to my Shield TV. I tried doing this with my fastest NUC, which is still only a Pentium SIlver J5005; while it’s at least got QuickSync, my expectations were very low, and I got about what I expected. The encoding process ate up every available CPU cycle, and left nothing to actually run a game. Would something like this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/mini-pc-review-the-ryzen-5-pro-2500u-powered-minisforum-um250/ do what I’m looking for? Anything else I should consider in the <$400 price range?
I think the problem is that under Linux only Nvidia GPUs do hardware accelerated streaming with Steam. ~~Last time there was some work ongoing to get it working wth AMD GPUs as well, but I am not sure if that is available yet. ~~ Edit: I guess: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4890
Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/hkt13x/poor_performance_in_steam_inhome_streaming/
Oof, it sounds like that puts a pin in the AMD-based system, unless I want to run Windows (I don’t).
Apparently same with Intel GPU based systems. Maybe you can find a small PC where you can add a lower end Nvidia GPU via PCIe?
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3050602228716269850 aww snap