There will always be a small amount of input lag and perhaps some graphical artifacts due to the encoding. Streaming will never work as perfectly as hooking a powerful gaming PC directly to your TV. RELATED: How to Get Better Performance from Steam In-Home Streaming You hook up one or more game controllers–or a keyboard and mouse–to the device connected to the TV and it sends the input to the game running elsewhere in your home. Your gaming PC does the work, rendering the game while the image is sent to your TV. Rather than unplugging your PC and hauling it to another room–or buying another powerful, expensive PC just for your living room–you can just hook up a cheap PC to the TV in your living room and stream the game.

They let you “stream” games from a solid Windows gaming PC to another device over the network.įor example, you might have a solid gaming PC in your office, but want to play a game on the TV in your living room.

Both Steam In-Home Streaming and NVIDIA GameStream function similarly.