{"id":67048,"date":"2014-05-21T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67048"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:40:51","slug":"steam-in-home-streaming-out-of-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-in-home-streaming-out-of-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam in-home streaming available to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Steam update includes the much anticipated in-home streaming feature. Game streaming has been part of the experimental beta version of Steam for a while, but is now stable enough for everyone to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Steam in-home streaming allows you to stream certain games over your home network to play on another computer. This means your powerful gaming PC can stream games to a less powerful computer. The feature  supports Windows, OS X, and even Linux. Valve&#8217;s SteamOS is also supported, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Steam isn&#8217;t the first to provide game streaming. <a title=\"NVIDIA GameStream\" href=\"http:\/\/shield.nvidia.com\/play-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA GameStream<\/a> technology allows PC users to stream games to their NVIDIA SHIELD consoles. GameStream is actually more powerful than Steam as it allows players to stream games from any internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to try out Steam in-home streaming at this year&#8217;s Game Developer Conference and was surprised how fluid everything was. <a title=\"DIRT 3\" href=\"http:\/\/dirt-3.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DiRT 3<\/a> ran smoothly and control input never lagged. Low latency for controls is especially important for racing games.<\/p>\n<p>You can try out Steam in-home streaming for yourself by having the latest version of Steam installed on two computers on your home network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Steam: <a title=\"Steam for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a> | <a title=\"Steam for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/steam-for-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/13378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/fifa-14-mobile-updated-with-world-cup-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA 14 mobile updated with World Cup content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/wolf-among-us-episode-4-screenshots\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wolf Among Us Episode 4 screenshots revealed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/watch-dogs-aiden-pearce-is-another-boring-anti-hero\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Dogs&#8217; Aiden Pearce is another boring anti-hero<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Steam update includes the much anticipated in-home streaming feature. Game streaming has been part of the experimental beta version of Steam for a while, but is now stable enough for everyone to enjoy. Steam in-home streaming allows you to stream certain games over your home network to play on another computer. This means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-in-home-streaming-out-of-beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam in-home streaming available to all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330718,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67048\/revisions\/330718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67048"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67048"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67048"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}