Steam Link opens game streaming to most Steam users as it doesn’t require a specific GPU or Android device-if you already use Steam and have an Android device, the odds are it will work for you. There’s also Moonlight Game Streaming, which is essentially NVIDIA GameStream for all other Android devices instead of just NVIDIA’s SHIELD brand of products. Of course, Steam isn’t the first company to offer something like this: NVIDIA has been doing it for a while with its GameStream software, though that is of course restricted to NVIDIA cards and SHIELD devices, serving only a small niche of gamers. This allows you to play games on your MacBook and do the heavy-lifting on your PC, so your Mac will. If you’re streaming to an Android TV, a wired connection is even better. If you already have a Windows PC ideally a gaming PC with powerful enough graphics hardware, enough CPU power, and a big hard drive you can use Steam’s in-home streaming feature to stream games running on your Windows PC to your Mac. Steam recommends using a 5 Ghz Wi-Fi connection if you plan on streaming wirelessly. You cannot stream games over the internet. Your phone (or tablet or Android TV) must be on the same local network for Steam Link to work. The display and control signals are streamed over your local network to your Android device. When you stream a game, it still runs on your PC and uses your PC’s more powerful hardware.

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