StreamMyGame streams PC games to your PS3

The battle lines between PC and console gamers just got a little blurrier -- a new app called StreamMyGame allows any Windows or Linux box (including the PS3) to stream Windows games over your LAN. It's not the most complicated tech in the world -- it sure sounds like optimized VNC to us -- but the PS3 compatibility is certainly interesting, in a complicated, installing Linux sort of way. Downloads appear to be free right now, and pretty much any game is compatible -- but we can't help but wonder why you wouldn't just play at your gaming PC in the first place.

[Via DigitalSpy]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 8:14AM]

You still need the computer capable of playing the games, all it is is a really neat relay, it relays video to the PS3, and the PS3 relays control inputs to the computer. and, um, you can build an ok gaming computer for under $500 if you build it all yourself.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 6:29AM]

How many days ago did i like you to this story? lol

[eMWu Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:11AM]

So what if I wanna run a game on my main (powerful) PC and play it using my laptop over lan/wifi. Is there a way to do it?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 9:06AM]

OK this is the dumbest product ever. All it is doing is sending frames (images) of the game running on your gaming PC to your PS3 in the Living Room. So your PC now needs to run the game, than run the app which creates the images and send them to the PS3. You then need the PS3 to display these images. All of this will introduce a ton of lag. Next, the PS3 is not actually running the game so your controller must still be connected (can be wirelessly) to the PC.

Next, most people would be using this to connect their PC to their large HDTV in the LR. Thing is, you can do this directly anyway via a flipping DVI or HDMI cable.....

Dumb dumb dumb. I have to LOL at this ****.

[FaberfoX Posted Jan 16th 2008 11:08AM]

Are you stupid or just can't read?
My pc is in a room too far from my big tv to use a cable.
Also, this app sends video and audio from the 'server' and receives control information from the 'client', so no, you don't need the pad connected to the pc.

[Kamilion Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:14AM]

just streamed a perfect, high detail, ~40fps 1024x768 world in conflict session from a X2-5600+/8800GT to a 1.7Ghz fujitsu lifebook ultraportable with Radeon Mobility U1 (Basically a radeon 7500 with no hardware texture and lighting) over 802.11G. No discernible lag. Game looked and played beaaautiful. My friend shat a brick seeing his crappy old laptop running ubuntu that could barely run battlefield 1942 playing World in Conflict as good as his fancy gaming PC.
Then I showed him the PC. His words: "*explicative* *explicative* *explicative* that's cool!"

Don't have a PS3 to test, but I'm sure it would do fine, as this is only high-res variable-framerate MPEG4 with the controls tunneled over a SSH backlink.

Modern nvidias and ATIs seem like they can encode this in hardware somehow. I can see no slowdown on the X2 between it running and not running.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:15AM]

Your post makes no sense. The Nvidia drivers work like a charm, and don't make anything look bad for better framerates. The new ATI cards are a steal for their price, but the drivers (Catalyst), as far as I know, have sucked for quite a while.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 5:07PM]

They are going to have a serious amount of competition from HDMI as well other technologies already in the market.

I have problems believing that it will work in the first place, but the only benefit that I see under ideal conditions, would be to use the PS3 as an interface and access much better audio and visual interfaces. I have no problem giving them the benefit of the doubt that this actually works flawlessly, but even so, it begs the question: Why their product?

Well the interface is not so unique, since I have a pretty damn good wireless controller for the PC already. It may not be a Six-Axis controller, but then again how many PC games could benefit from that in the first place? Air Sims need their own special interfaces as well. The VAST majority of all PC games need a good keyboard.

The better audio and visual is easily accomplished by HDMI. You can purchase HDMI cards for your PC already, and they are extensively used in high end multimedia PCs for home theater. HDMI can also be pushed across CAT5-CAT6. So can USB.

So if your purpose was to be able to play PC games on a 40-inch plus home theater screen in the comfort of the living room, or to distribute games across the network to multiple PCs....

A server with Alcohol running can distribute the images of the games and remote instances can mount them perfectly, HDMI can push the PC display anywhere WITH the audio component simultaneously, and USB across TCP/IP coupled with a good wireless keyboard+mouse combo.

I just see this solution as unwieldy, and probably won't compete well with other technologies.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 8:47PM]

Anyone actually try this? I downloaded the software to try it out and it somehow seemed to cause an "Active Desktop Recovery" background and lost Start menu firefox link on reboot, which was necessary since the installer crashed windows explorer. Don't know if this was just a fluke or if the software is crappy but I'm no longer interested in messing with it.