Tuesday, August 25th 2015
NVIDIA Readies a PS4 SharePlay-like Feature for GeForce Experience
NVIDIA is giving final touches to a feature that's similar in function to PlayStation 4 SharePlay, called GameStream Co-op. Accessed through its GeForce Experience app, the feature will let you share your game over the Internet with your friend, letting them either take over control (and get you through a level you're stuck with), or play co-op multiplayer with. The way this works is that your systems renders the game, and streams it across the Internet to them.
NVIDIA is planning to get GameStream Co-op into the hands of as many gamers as possible, by the minimum system requirements of the host PC rather low. You need at least a GeForce GTX 650 graphics card to get started. The guest PC has even lower system requirements, including not needing any discrete-graphics, and just Google Chrome (the game streams to them as a web-page). The only notable requirement is an Internet bandwidth of at least 7 Mbps (upstream) for the host, and 7 Mbps (downstream) for the guest. NVIDIA plans to put a working beta of this feature in the hands of gamers by September.
Sources:
GameSpot, Many Thanks to TheMailman78 for the tip.
NVIDIA is planning to get GameStream Co-op into the hands of as many gamers as possible, by the minimum system requirements of the host PC rather low. You need at least a GeForce GTX 650 graphics card to get started. The guest PC has even lower system requirements, including not needing any discrete-graphics, and just Google Chrome (the game streams to them as a web-page). The only notable requirement is an Internet bandwidth of at least 7 Mbps (upstream) for the host, and 7 Mbps (downstream) for the guest. NVIDIA plans to put a working beta of this feature in the hands of gamers by September.
19 Comments on NVIDIA Readies a PS4 SharePlay-like Feature for GeForce Experience
Back to the topic on hand yes 7Mbps is more than most people get on upload but based on previous game streaming requirements its still decent. Now does it work stand alone? Ie can I stream the game from the den to the living room and play it on the vig screen via a lesser powered machine?
If it don't let you stream for some odd reason in the house just use Steam :), as i know you can stream a games from one PC to another and even take control of the game too.
Both screens stay on it's not like it stops you watching it on both systems in fact i never noticed it stop me doing stuff from the laptop or PC.
EDIT
Just tried it with Solar 2 with it being small and easy to try was was able to do input from both systems at the same time.
I use STEAM streaming nearly daily. I stream from my PC to my Surface, my TV, or another PC I have that isn't capable of gaming otherwise.
Over here it's $3 per 1GB...
With that kind of upload (7Mbit) you are basically limited to Fiber or improved Cable. Question is wat kind of Resolution you get at 7 Mbit, and what you would need for 1080P or 4K.
on topic... so you're all telling me I've been waiting for something that's been here the whole time? *runs home to try it*
So is it one game install running and rendering multiple instances, one for local player and one for each remote player? That sounds like it's a heap of legal trouble. Sounds like it's going to need multiple game installs (with different licenses) on the same machine (if it's powerful and/or virtualized) or different machines, and stream the un-used machines or VM's to the remote player(s). Anyone have more information on how the co-op feature works?
Stop saying something you don't know.