Hey all, I’ve got an under powered laptop that I would like to stream Steam games to from my main PC (main PC has an AMD 9070XT, laptop has something like an Nvidia 1660). What I need to do is still be able to use my main PC while streaming to the laptop at the same time.
I’ve looked at solutions like moonlight, and I don’t recall it worked very well or didnt support having a virtual display. I don’t know that this is possible on Linux, but seems to be pretty easy to do on Windows.
What are my options here? Is it even viable to have a fully usable desktop while also utilising the GPU to stream games elsewhere?
Edit: ended up using Wolf and seemed to work perfectly. Certainly good enough to do what I set out to achieve, thanks for the recommendation.
Steam’s in-home streaming takes up both devices. When you’re moving the mouse and pressing keys on your client (the underpowered laptop), it’s sending those same key presses and mouse movents to the host (your gaming PC). Computers don’t really respond well/aren’t designed to have multiple users in the same desktop environment at the same time.
Another user linked Wolf which uses Docker containers, or you’d need to set up a virtual machine inside your gaming PC that would become the host instead.
Is it possible? Sure.
Is it viable? No.