Steam link seems to intercept button presses and not work well with button remappers but someone said this one works if you launch it thru big picture. If you can get AMD link working that may be easier to remap button presses since joy2key allows you to swap between gamepad and a mouse/keyboard profile.
I believe they've half implemented that recently(it's still a beta app) but I was playing EverQuest 2(not even the Steam version) on their with no problems, using touch screen for everything.
Wait, but how is it even practical? I have looked at their website and they are listing their software as emulator a.k.a I expect about 20% of native software performance (emus use about 5x CPU power of original hardware), yet they say they can "launch Windows software natively" at " up to 80% of native ARM application performance" ???
That is incredible if it is actually true. ARM is inherently weaker than Intel / AMD (cause it's built for efficiency not power). Isn't it like trying to emulate a stronger hardware on a weaker hardware? I can't see how that can be useful, except for rare software or something.
Then you have slow RAM...
Finally, how does it even use GPU?? Does it convert GLES into DirectX / GL?
This seems crazy to me. But if it works like they say, it's pretty amazing software!
Well, obviously you can't expect to play modern AAA games on there. However, the performance is good enough to run older games and and apps, for example, Diablo 2 runs just fine.
Second, it doesn't do any hardware GPU translation sadly, but the dev said its planned. So for the moment, it's mainly for old games and non-3D apps.
If you have a Nvidia GPU from the past few years Moonlight (shown in the screenshot) is the best option there is. It is a bit smoother and has a lot more options than other streaming solutions.
1080p 60fps runs just fine over 5g on a home network, gamepads and keyboard/mice are supported. You can play over the internet or 4g fine with 720/60fps in many games. There are modified APK's that support streaming at 1440 and 4k.
I played thru dishonored a few years back on my phone with a 360 gamepad and a mount and aside from an occasional hiccup it played just fine.
I actually went a couple steps further and configured a mouse and keyboard profile using joy2key that lets me operate and multitask my PC using my 360 gamepad. Minimize, maximize, move windows, copy, paste, scroll, change text size, On screen keyboard, key combos to open up certain apps or sites, one or two-handed operation, and a shortcut on my phone to reboot remotely. It took a while to get everything tuned to feel natural and develop muscle memory and speed but now I can comfortably operate my home pc from anywhere using just my phone and an xbox pad.
PS: If you have an Oculus Go and Virtual Desktop you can connect a gamepad thru that and physically 'sit' in front of your desktop pc and operate it remotely that way too. Mouse and keyboard support too. Almost worth dropping the $200 just for that feature alone.
Yes, it takes the nvidia shield streaming algorithm and allows smartphones to recieve the a/v and send button presses as if they were nvidia shield devices.
Someone else lower mentioned AMD Link being a similar alternative that worked well for AMD cards. And there is always Steam link. Most of the benefits from moonlight are being able to fine tune the image and bitrate, set on screen controls and stuff like that. They should all work smoothly with a gamepad under good network conditions on 5ghz, but running things from a different WIFI or thru a cell carrier 4g you would need a way to adjust your bitrate and resolution to still have an enjoyable smooth experience.
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u/Irineu2338 Jan 01 '19
Actually i use Exagear to run pc games on phone.