https://geekyschmidt.com/categories/steam/Recent content in Steam on Geeky Schmidthttps://geekyschmidt.com/images/papermod-cover.pnghttps://geekyschmidt.com/images/papermod-cover.pngHugoenCopyright ©2002-2026, Nicholas Schmidt; all rights reserved.Fri, 10 Nov 2017 04:15:57 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2017-11-10-steam-bigpicture-streaming/Fri, 10 Nov 2017 04:15:57 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2017-11-10-steam-bigpicture-streaming/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>In both of our homes I have a Unix server for a variety of uses, but something that has been on interest for awhile was <a href="https://getsteam.com">Steam</a> in Home Streaming. In essence it takes the frame buffer of the video card and remotely displays it on any other machine running Steam.</p> <p>The benefit, for me at least, is two-fold. It is cheaper and easier to drop a GPU into the server than it is to upgrade the laptop and it allows for me to have a remote <a href="https://www.khronos.org/opencl/">OpenCL</a> machine that I use in my security research.</p>