StreamMyGame now available, play PC games on your PS3
- Posted January 14th, 2008 at 11:43 EDT by
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With consoles becoming more and more powerful, it seems logical that console owners should be able to share in the PC gaming experience by being able to play PC games on their systems. This long hoped for feature has now become a reality for PS3 owners following the release of StreamMyGame.com.
The software provided by this website is one that will convert the audio and video portions of the PC game and convert it into a "Game Stream." Once converted, the information will be sent over the user's home network to a second computer, PS3, or Linux-based device, to then be able to view as well as play the game with the StreamMyGame player.
StreamMyGame acts as a media server and is available to just about anybody with a PC running Windows XP or Vista, and will be compatible with all PC titles based on Microsoft's DirectX8, DirectX9 and DirectX10 (including the highly acclaimed Crysis). The resolutions are also scalable all the way up to "Super HDTV" (3200 x 2400).
"Playing the latest PC game on the PS3 is now a reality at HD resolution and fast frame-rates," commented CEO Richard Faria.
"I have a PS3 in my living room and PC in my office and my two kids both have old PCs in their bedrooms. Now we can play games anywhere around the home. StreamMyGame's technology networks the power of a main PC so it can be used to play high end games on other PCs, PS3s and Linux devices."
Later this spring, StreamMyGame will be allowing users to play their games over broadband networks that are "sufficiently capable" that would allow their PC games to be available to them over "Remote Play." This feature adds yet another notch on the PS3’s exclusive features, which other systems just aren't capable of producing.
Source: StreammyGame
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 2:41am GMT - January 15th, 2008
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I'm curious as to what does the actual processing? I know the PC converts it but does the PS3 render everything? If so, he!!o Crysis.
C'mon guys, can we get rid of the he!! ban? We can't even type he!!o.
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princevegeta1980
- 2:57am GMT - January 15th, 2008
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well im still not going to invest 1000 euros in my pc, i prefer saving this to invest in my ps3, plus the only pc game that i would like to play is crysis but like the game sold bad maybe crysis will be ported to ps3, well i hope so, if not we still have kill zone 2 to look forward to
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The Cleaner
- 6:32am GMT - January 15th, 2008
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PC gaming has moved past "HD" ages ago so Im not sure what the point of this product is. I've been playing PC games on my HP L3065 display at a native resolution of 2560 x 1600 for the past two years.... That's twice as many pixels as offered by 1080p. To run it you just need a 8800GT which doesnt cost too much. I'm using an 8800 Ultra with room for another but so far Ive not needed the other card in SLI
The new SLI Mobos coming through can hold 3 x 8800Gxx cards or the new 9800GTX. Better still 2 x HD3870X2's for four GPU's and 4GB of DDR4 video memory. My question is why would I want to use my PS3 to do the rendering? It has a GPU marginaly better than a 7600 and has just 512Mb memory shared with the system. I dont understand the benefit.
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Motoken
- 7:56pm GMT - January 15th, 2008
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"With consoles becoming more and more powerful, it seems logical that console owners should be able to share in the PC gaming experience by being able to play PC games on their systems." um, wtf? you cant play games through any system, you can stream the video and sound and thats as far as it goes, you still need to spend a shiz load on a nice PC to play any new games.
and why dont you just hook up your PC to the TV with a few cables, i'd imagen that it would be much easier then setting up a network, just to stream sound and video.
Only use i see for this is, if you happen to have a really good computer, a big house, and you just happen to want to play your games in your living room.
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The Cleaner
- 2:08pm GMT - January 16th, 2008
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Maybe they are really just using the PS3 to provide the HDMI port to the TV screen - IE: the PS3 doesnt do the game processing or graphics rendering but rather passes through the signal via its HDMI port and maybe helps out with some simple scaling. I cant see any more use for the PS3 than that.
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