I Built a Game-Anywhere Server!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- SPONSOR: Use VIP-SCDkey's 30% discount code 'GSVIP' during their May Sale!
Windows 11 Pro ($21): www.vip-scdkey.com/sks/GSVIP11
Windows 10 Pro ($15): www.vip-scdkey.com/sks/GSVIP10
Office 2019 Pro ($47): www.vip-scdkey.com/sks/GSVIP19
I built a server that allows me to game anywhere in the world I want! It isn't perfect and definitely has a few prerequisites, but so far I've been able to play any Steam game on devices like my iPhone, Macbook, Mac Studio, and other off-site desktops!
Learn more about Steam Remote Play: store.steampowered.com/remote...
⭐ Consider supporting us on Patreon! / gregsalazar
Check out Western Digital 4TB SN700 Reds: geni.us/6Widt
Check out some of our Ubiquiti equipment:
Camera G5 Pro (x4): shorturl.at/apETY
48 Port Pro POE Switch: geni.us/JbSgZ
Dream Machine SE: geni.us/QL2DV
Network Video Recorder (NVR): geni.us/YM4Ws
🎬 My studio gear on Amazon:
Sony A7C (Primary): geni.us/lOeoIA9
Sony a6600 (Secondary): geni.us/k8VBToq
Sony a6400 (Webcam): geni.us/24nqw
2x Pixio PX277 Prime 165Hz IPS Monitors: geni.us/bCg4nD
Neewer LED Lighting Kit: geni.us/9VTXr0
Audio-Technica AT2035: geni.us/xvQc
Yamaha MG10XU Mixer: geni.us/d4VvGM
Neewer Microphone Arms: geni.us/1w5Sx2Y
Arrowzoom Sound-Damping Foam Panels: geni.us/EKFxZc
📱 Follow me on social media:
TWITCH: / gregsalazar
FACEBOOK: / gregsalazaryt
TWITTER: / gregsalazaryt
INSTAGRAM: / gregsalazaryt
💻 Join our public Discord server: / discord
🎵 Channel music provided by Monstercat: / monstercat
DISCLOSURES: All Genius links are tied to our Amazon Associate account, from which we earn a small sales commission. Links containing a 'bit.ly' reference forwarding to Newegg are tied to our Rakuten account, from which we earn a small sales commission. All sponsored links and comments will contain the word "SPONSOR" or "AD." Any additional revenue stream will be disclosed with similar verbiage. - Наука та технологія
My favorite combo is Sunshine for the host and Moonlight on the client, it works even outside home with a better performance than Steam Link.
This is the way
Have you run this on an android device? I've been frustrated trying to figure out how to do so with Moonlight. Mouse movement and clicking are a lot less responsive then Parsec, but Parsec drops connections frequently.
@jacelawler1694 I use Moonlight on my Galaxy Tab S7+ at the tablets native res. Mouse input feels a bit off but there's no alternative unless you want to pay $25 to $50 for VirtualHere.
VirtualHere Server turns a device into a server that allows VirtualHere Client devices to use the Server's USB devices over the network. It feels awesome, it's smooth responsive and very low latency.
However the VirtualHere Server is Licensed for only one device and the license can't be transferred to other devices. That's the reason why I haven't bought it.
I still haven't switched to sunshine as geforce experience still works and is a no brainer. Moonlight as a client is the way for sure though.
100% this, but it has limits (limits that will affect Greg) Moonlight on IOS is limited to local network only (this is the case on ipad)
should give Parsec a gander
Parsec would have made this so much easier, especially with the virtual display adapter.
Parsec is THE way to go. Fuck TeamViewer
Parsec is the best way. All you need really is about 10 mb connection with very low latency, quality at 10mb isnt great but SO much better then Steam
The Parsec app has almost no delay; I'm surprised they offer such a service for free.
Great video Greg, Computers are something I've loved for years, I even built my own back in December and that works great, your videos and many others helped me gain knowledge as i consumed alot of what it said in videos, your fix or flop series is very entertaining and can be helpful to many, great videos!
That is awesome! Thanks for watching.
@@GregSalazar Is awesome indeed, I feel like building a pc is always the better option especially if the knowledge is there cause I think i saved hundreds compared to buying a prebuilt cause i think they add quite a bit on for labour, dont think i'll ever buy a prebuilt again, the only thing i struggle with when building pcs is the front panel connectors but i heard some cases actually have the front panel connectors as one connector which sounds cool so that'd prob be a case i would go with for my next build, overall keep up the good work with the videos, very interesting :D
hey greg, love all your videos ive been watching since the start of covid and you've helped me get my mind off of things during tough times due to covid, but im glad you upload consistantly so i have anew video to watch when there isnt anything interesting on youtube, thank you lots.
also your wife is very beautiful btw
This video was educational. Thank you.
I've been doing this for years. Parsec goes up to 4k 240hz and comes with a virtual monitor driver for headless setups. All I have on my desk is a laptop and the gaming rig is in a rack in the garage.
Do you have a guide if someone else was to do this?
This video came in perfect timing as I am trying to do this but don't feel safe to keep my PC on while I'm outside my house. Anyways wonderful video Greg.
Why's that?
@@NickzAndMikz what?
why do you feel unsafe leaving your pc on?
@@BW-hk2xn Its a kind of instinct, you don't know what could go wrong. What if a resistor decides to give up and starts a flame etc.
@@coolbusterreal2736 Life must be absolutely terrifying inside your head
Thank you @GregSalazar ! I primarily game on PC and have been looking for a way to play games on a TV. I just sold my PS5 but I do want to occasionally game on a big TV but also don't want to buy or build a completely new gaming rig. Now I can just reuse old hardware or old laptops I have laying around.
I use my Steam Deck to remote play at my living room PC. Works pretty well for the most part. A dedicated 8bitdo controller does wonders to make it feel like a console experience. Would be interested to see your implementation of a Steam Deck or ROG Ally. I would recommend an OLED Steam Deck if you do look into them due to the Wi-Fi 6e over Wi-Fi 5.
Love your "everyman" approach to the PC space. Keep up the good work.
This is one of the best case uses for a home server.
Great vid this is what i have set up in my house i have my main computer upstairs and can then play anywhere i want in the house or outside if i want. best thing i've done for sure
"No, but seriously tho do you want to clean it."
Nice one. Maybe network boot with Auto-start Steam might work, too? This way you wouldn't need to let the main system run all the time sucking dust and using power.
Steam remote play is great! I have used it in the past to play games of my pc on the couch using just a Chromecast with Google TV and a controller.
Ahh Greg you have totally immersed me into the pc building hobby. Built my own, dismantled mine and rebuilt with new parts and built my friend one with the leftovers and then rebuilt myself a retro PC and now building my grandmother one next week (that she will probably be annoyed with because of how fast everything moves and loads 😂).
Nice one Greg, I'm going to the remote play a go.
i dont use team viewr, i use vnc viewer, can have multiple computers setup for it and very convinient , just pullup the viiewer and double click on the computer you want to control and it connects
Love the video carnt wait for more mate
Iv been using parsec for years now
And running win10 as the os for my gaming rig on the server side lol
Hows the video card power connector as it looks verry tightly cable managed
hope you keep the projects coming
Love the series
I KNEW THOSE WERE YUGI OH CARDS IN THE BACKGROUND. lol
I just did something similar once I got gig fiber installed. I use Moonlight on my remote devices which uses Nvidia’s software to stream the games. I’ve tested everything from 1080 144hz to 4k 120hz. Flawless experience
I want a home server sort of like this but for streaming all my dvds and Blu-ray’s to my multiple TVs.
Hey Greg, nice content! I am really interessted to build a gaming server and have 2 questions:
1) the server need high end hardware?
2) is possible playing the games on the TV then? I have 55" LG oled 120hz and i wish use them for gaminfg without a PS5/X-Box.
Thanks
Greg, that's an impressive setup, especially for a networking newb. After experimenting with many sorts of server software from bare metal to UnRaid, I settled for a standard Windows 11 box opened up to contact by all my other PCs. I don't run it headless because that would add complexity that I don't want; I just go to the server and do what I need to do (rarely anything) using it as a local machine. It meets my active storage, archival storage, and backup needs. But I'm still fascinated by this series.
I appreciate it! And I feel ya on standard Windows. So much simpler and even a bit of upside for a single client. My goal is to set up a second WVM to tie into the same storage pool and compute resources. Waaaay above my pay grade right now, but a long-term goal for sure :-)
@@GregSalazar I might someday "upgrade" my solution, but for now just being able to store files centrally (with NO cloud) and access them from any machine in the house is sufficient.
Does the nVidia GPU support GPU virtualisation so you can pass it though to all your VMs Greg?
One cool use for a high end gaming server would be using other devices as thin clients to provide gaming without requiring multiple PCs for multiple people. Craft Computing was experimenting with this recently and seems to be the go-to guy for that sort of subject although his setup uses NVIDIA Tesla cards instead.
woah no way im this early! long time watcher, love what you do brother
I appreciate ya!
@@GregSalazar likewise man
My bro and I play using parsec. I am guest on his pc because he has better upload. It works great.
ngl that bend on the 12vhp cable scares me
this is interesting, I'm interested in a follow up video; especially on the topic of the fake displays/headless displays.
I'll give it a try.
lol has his steam showing, gets LOOTS of friend requests, ooof! Love your videos sir!
Good idea. maybe next step @ home
I haven't encountered that game server, but it's interesting.
Watching Greg play yugioh was a bit wild
When you pronounced the server name each time I kept hearing “Old Lebron” 😂
I used TrusNas Scale and run a windows vm. Took forever to get the rtx 2080 ti to play nice with a windows vm. Was trying to figuire out if I could use my server as a stream rig and ran into issues with the vm not picking up the capture card correctly and obs detecting the video card.
Hey Greg, have you done a follow up to the mac challenge yet?
Hi Greg, would you happen to know how to install the ReSizeable Bar, in the BIOS of an Asus Strix X99 Gaming motherboard? I just recently bought an RX7600 XT and wanted to utilize AMD's Smart Access Memory if I can. My motherboard, though old and no issue of sort having 6900K cpu, has an option Above 4G Decoding in its BIOS but no ReSizeable Bar menu. Thank you for the informative yet entertaining videos you create.
Does anyone know why my secondary computer (that I use as a server) turns on whenever I start my main PC?
wake-on-lan is disabled.
I'll recommend as well, like someone else already did in the comments, Sunshine server and Moonlight client. Works from anywhere as long as the internet connection is good.
I also noticed you didn't enable HEVC video in steam link, which is basically H.265 video compression. It's better than the default H.264. Gives you better image quality on the client at lower bitrate/bandwidth cost.
I toggled this on and off several times and noticed compression issues in playback with 265. Not sure why.
have thought of building one, but prob i need data server more
Hey Greg I was wondering if you could help my with an issue I'm having I don't know if you usually help people in the comments like this, but while I'm running games my pc randomly doesn't output audio or picture and I have to restart the system. After I restart I have to reinstall the latest drivers again and it will repeatedly happen after about half an hr, however sometimes it does do it around 2 minutes after starting a game up, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Where is a Good place to the download for Windows 10 Pro?
what is that air blower gun called?
I like to c u do tutorials on how to use trueNAS how to setup raid one, what are the best NAS OS’s and how to setup raid one on synology NAS’s
You won’t be able to play multiple games directly from the server but with your full game library on the server you set all games to update immediately and then on your other gaming PCs in the house you can install the games directly from the server to the gaming pc that you want to play currently and any updates will pull down from the server and the games can be on older ssd drives because you don’t need to play directly from the server which nulls the 4090 and to be honest I don’t think you need the 4090 for a remotely remote play
can you using moonlight and sunshine and set up tailscale vpn to stream from outside of your house?
I did this last year but with my PC and a laptop. Thou I used my phone's hotspot. My current SIM plan is unlimited 100MB/s down and up. I played AC 1 and it didn't stutter at all.
Best server case I have ever seen, i needed. Name please or link please, I would appreciate it very much. Thxs Greg for the content.
How do I get my hands on that vaccum you used to clean the PC?
So you are not bouncing off Steams servers if you have IP sharing enabled. The steam servers are just there for the initial bit to give the client the global IP address of your server and then handle the initial port forwarding. That is the point of IP sharing. To allow you to connect without having to use Steam servers to redirect traffic.
Where are your rails to properly mount the server in the rack?
I have rails for most of my servers. Aldebaran rests atop my UPS (which sits on its own beefy rail) and doesn't need one.
Wonder if you can use parsec instead of team viewer/ quick assist :) edit: you could try using moonlight/ sunshine or parsec to stream instead. Im genuinely interested to see if you have a better experience outside of home with these :)
Maybe you mentioned it and I didn’t catch it, what did you use to dust off the pc?
Also, have you thought about using moonlight and sunshine to stream? (Based on NVIDIA Gamestream)
Does the server get loud at all? I thought about doing one but don’t wanna have a jet engine in my living room
I keep it in my server closet with active ventilation. I don't even notice it in the next room or even while walking by it under load.
I don't need a PC gaming everywhere server, but I want to make a Android gaming everywhere lol. I'd like to remote into like bluestacks and fire up a game I can't get on my ipad for example when Im out and about.
Greg since you are doing proxmox now. Can you do the mac OS VM with a GPU passthrough and try editing there would be fun for you. I guess
you cant stream some games from a virtual machine because the game knows that the pc is not an actual one, the anticheat doesn't allow this because hardware bans would not be effective anymore. to my knowledge you can stream these games from a normal windows pc.
crap he explained it as soon as I posted this comment
I loved your shirt. I'm number one fan of the band Creed. TOP 1 band of my life. Did you hear about their return on the summer of 99 cruise?
I saw them in concert during their first reunion tour for Full Circle 👍
Xbox controllers are your friend for most of the titles you showed. Native plug and play (or Bluetooth) on most Android devices.
Parsec also works great as a steam streaming alternative, if you have games in other game libraries.
Xbox and PlayStation controllers also have native support on iOS.
I'm actually working on a similar project.
Top 10 let’s goo
for me moonlight + sunshine has WAY better quality and input lag than steam/parsec. on local network at 1080P it does need about 120mbit of bandwidth but i can't really tell im playing over the network on a different machine
Greg hates dust.
Supppp thats really cool honestly.
Sup00p
I love Noctua fans, but I'd use their Industrial or black fans that suit that system better.
wow you have a ultra wide dont even know you can hook up two devices i use my ultra as dual monitors i play my ps5and consoles on one the other is for my streaming rig it amazing me how ya ultra wide owners dont know of the kvm switch build on those bad boys or picture in pcture mode or picture by picture mode does your monitor uses two divices in one monitor ?
I doubt all ultrawides have that
OFC I know about PIP and PBP. I don't have a use for it at this time. Prefer single ultrawide...
What was the name of the Yu-Gi-Oh! game that you played?
NICE T-SHIRT BROTHER
Bro looks like pre-covid Linus.
As a truck driver I play my games over my phones connection....not hotspot but my actual phones connection....on my laptop anywhere in the US and dont have an issue. Works for me 90 percent of the time. Unless you just have horrible service in the area.
*cough* *hack* PDA *Cough* NET *cough*
Uhmm....excuse me....
:-)
Would you be able to run games on a Chromebook?
Useless trivia time: Did you know that Nvidia used to make motherboard chipsets? I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 with an nForce 4 chipset.
Stand back, Greg's dusting his server...
Like an expensive steam deck or Asus ally
Setup up a VPN into the environment, RDP to the actual server. Best way to keep it safe. This is the setup we would do for clients who wanted their server to be 'safe".
The problem with RDP is the response time is not fast enough for gaming. Using a VPN into the environment will also affect the latency experienced while gaming. Wireguard is faster but still not as fast as opening ports on the firewall. But you mentioned secure, a self hosted VPN will always be the most secure because you are opening the least number of ports on your local network, you are correct there.
Sunshine/Moonlight
House tour please!
you will want to use nvfbc
The network admin in me is like, I hope you have a firewall a hardware firewall, and a VPM, your system if not configured correctly has all the doors open and just asking to be hacked,
You likely missed our older videos where we outfitted the server rack with tons of Ubiquiti hardware (mentioned that in this video as well), including a UDM-SE.
I feel like there was a core misunderstanding with how this works. You are not using "Steam Servers" if you are not performing a direct connection. All that means is rather than talking directly between the two machines with no hops in between, you are routing the streamed game over the Internet.
I see carpet , no go
When we designed this house, we elected for carpet in only one place... my office. MUCH better for sound and eliminates the need for annoying and expensive rugs (which are essentially carpets anyway). It's a non-issue.
instead of steam remote play you should use sunshine + moonlight, much better performance and latency
I didn't have much of an issue at all with performance _or_ latency outside of cell service gaming.
sounds like a job for a xeon and a beefy gpu
Anyone here using a remote power button? I'm using one to turn on my pc and Parsec to play remotely. Seems good to me.
Seems like I’d rather have the extra 2tb than raid for games that can easily be redownloaded.
I understand the argument - I just don't have a need for 4TB worth of games.
'tool-less' drives, and then 4 screws on the heatsink 🤦🏼♂️
You keep it in a house in an open cabinet, surely you're not surprised its dirty , every server cabinet I have ever built, is fully enclosed with plenty of exhaust fans and all four covers on cabinet and locked in a clean room?
It's dirtier in 3 months than any of my other systems that I never turn off, so yes, I was a bit surprised. Even fully enclosed units become very dirty.
Uhm Greg gvg mall can help you out with a os key😅
Nice shirt! 🤘
I don't understand RAID for games.
I get it. Most folks would prefer the 4TB since there's nothing too sensitive stored that can't be backed up via Steam cloud, etc. I just don't have a real use for a full 4TB. Would rather have the backup just to save time. I don't often play more than a few games ever at a time.
Comment for the algorithm.
Creed
I normally don’t comment before watching the entire video, but for the love of God, I hope the Creed shirt is a joke.
Don’t hate on a man of culture 🤌
Cool T-shirt! Creed are back on tour after many years
Hello!!!
Hi!
Day 13 of asking for a watercooled system
Greg using a touch bar kinda cringe 😣
did pretty good for being a server noob. i actually went to school for networking and all that and have since forgotten most of it. and btw, dont need to have redundancy when steam has everything stored in the cloud. downloading and reinstalling dont take but a cpl minutes these days esp with fiber inet now.
I don't have fiber where I live. But my downloads are still faster than local transfer for some reason. I just didn't need 4TB of space for the games I play.