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[Q]Stream non steam game?

Hello
I don't use steam. I bought games in store.
Is that possible to stream non steam game?

i haven't gotten mine yet but last i heard it either has to be detected in GFE or you can add non-steam games thru steam.

If you add a non-Steam game to your Steam Library (which is very simple and you can find out how to here), you can play it on the Shield by launching Steam in big picture mode. I've done it with a couple games, such as Hawken.

hurrpancakes said:
If you add a non-Steam game to your Steam Library (which is very simple and you can find out how to here), you can play it on the Shield by launching Steam in big picture mode. I've done it with a couple games, such as Hawken.
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Can you run an emulator on the PC and stream it to Nvidia shield in this manner? I was thinking of emulators that maybe don't run too well on android but do so on the PC.

Potbellypig said:
Can you run an emulator on the PC and stream it to Nvidia shield in this manner? I was thinking of emulators that maybe don't run too well on android but do so on the PC.
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I can confirm dolphin works great for gamecube games! I have dolphin setup to my 360 controller,
when i started a game thru steam the shield buttons worked exactly like 360 setup.

blinkdragonid said:
I can confirm dolphin works great for gamecube games! I have dolphin setup to my 360 controller,
when i started a game thru steam the shield buttons worked exactly like 360 setup.
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If you could add a bit to this Google Doc we're working on (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al_tgDiSllFFdGhJQ3p3d1JDTU0wS3IyNjVxdDB6MVE) about Dolphin it would be greatly appreciated

hurrpancakes said:
If you could add a bit to this Google Doc we're working on URL about Dolphin it would be greatly appreciated
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i definitely will once i get my new router with dual band and wireless N. Right now testing games is a little laggy
and i dont want to confuse lag with glitches. but i will help out any way this noob can:highfive:

blinkdragonid said:
I can confirm dolphin works great for gamecube games! I have dolphin setup to my 360 controller,
when i started a game thru steam the shield buttons worked exactly like 360 setup.
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It's not working for me. I have the shortcuts setup and work fine in big picture mode without the shield. But when the shield is streaming and I go to launch a gamecube game, nothing happens.....
Other non-steam shortcuts work fine on my Shield, like Halo 2. How are your shortcuts setup?

Polymira said:
It's not working for me. I have the shortcuts setup and work fine in big picture mode without the shield. But when the shield is streaming and I go to launch a gamecube game, nothing happens.....
Other non-steam shortcuts work fine on my Shield, like Halo 2. How are your shortcuts setup?
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2 ways to link gamecube roms to shield.
Method 1 is to use a batch file or some other script which launches dolphin with your rom, find a utility to compile it to an exe (steam will only trigger EXE files) and set steam to load that. I never got any of the old batch to exe utilities working but did get ironPython working to do the same.
Method 2. Just set steam to open dolphin and manually select a ROM. Probably wont work for big picture (I havent tried nor do I own a shield)

SixSixSevenSeven said:
2 ways to link gamecube roms to shield.
Method 1 is to use a batch file or some other script which launches dolphin with your rom, find a utility to compile it to an exe (steam will only trigger EXE files) and set steam to load that. I never got any of the old batch to exe utilities working but did get ironPython working to do the same.
Method 2. Just set steam to open dolphin and manually select a ROM. Probably wont work for big picture (I havent tried nor do I own a shield)
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Funny enough, the batch file isn't working for me....
But just opening dolphin does, using the touchscreen to select a game with the mouse.

Polymira said:
Funny enough, the batch file isn't working for me....
But just opening dolphin does, using the touchscreen to select a game with the mouse.
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I had a friend who had a reasonable amount of success with the batch file option. Steam will only open EXE files normally so you do have to find a batch to EXE tool, but the only ones I can find now are either confirmed malware ridden, broken on modern versions of windows or both.
The basis of the method is you write a batch file which simply calls [path to dolphin] [path to rom] on the command line, when its run it should fire up dolphin with that rom no problem.
I did get ironPython to open Chrome on my PC once, steam was then able to call the ironPython EXE fine.
Did find a 3rd method last night. Add dolphin.exe to steam. Right click it, go into properties, add the path to your rom as a command line option. Limits you to 1 rom though and I couldnt get steam to let me add dolphin to steam multiple times without copying multiple instances of dolphin onto my computer.
Seems like the regular open dolphin > select game from shield method might be best for now.
Will be great when the dolphin for android port is complete, that is if the shield can run it (shields powerful but you do need a fair old amount of power to emulate a gamecube)

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blinkdragonid said:
I can confirm dolphin works great for gamecube games! I have dolphin setup to my 360 controller,
when i started a game thru steam the shield buttons worked exactly like 360 setup.
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Are you still able to GameStream Dolphin ? I'm having no audio using 5.0 rc 34 or 4.0-7941
Any ideas ?

Xinput emulation + streaming possible?

The main challenge with streaming from a non nvidia or lower grade nvidia gpu is
xinput.
Despite streaming the game flawlessly Controller support does not work on the shield gamepad natively, they just work as keyboard WASD etc buttons for playing games which is not comfortable.
Is it possible to overcome this limitation by getting SHIELD recognized as a 360 controller/detected as a xinput device.
This would complete the gaming experience. Somehow this is done in GFE and shield's native streaming.

Not sure what you mean. Are you trying to use the native nvidia streaming or something else? If it is something else you can try to use the xbox360 controller emulator.

chevyowner said:
Not sure what you mean. Are you trying to use the native nvidia streaming or something else? If it is something else you can try to use the xbox360 controller emulator.
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streaming via splastop, and I want to emulate the 360 controlled on the shield gamepad.
example
I connect 360 controller to pc, now the game will work with controller support on.
I stream the game to my shield, But i dont want to use the attached controller on the pc, I want to emulate the controller on my shield.

Don't know any way to do that one.

Kainy does this perfectly! And has many other great features. Say goodbye to x360ce!

NVidia Shield acting as a "controller" for other devices and cross device syncing

NVidia Shield acting as a "controller" for other devices and cross device syncing
Hey Guys,
I have searched and would like to know 2 things:
1) Can the Shield be used as a simple bluetooth controller for other devices? Say I want to play a game on a larger tablet. I know in console mode the other way can work (another blue controller controls the shield), but I want to know if the shield can control say a nexus 10.
2) Is it easy to have cross device syncing of emulators? I want to play say, Mario 64 on my shield on the bus ride home and then switch to my larger tablet and continue.
Thanks guys!
-brandon

I dont think so, well at least Nvidia doesnt say any word on it in their features. But I guess with some additional software and/or maybe Root it will be possible, but why would you need it to act as a Just Controller ? I mean 250$ controller too expensive, dont you think? You can play any Android games on it, so you dont need controller for Android tablets, Xbox360 doesnt have bluetooth, PS3 has its own controller which is much cheaper and I think even better. If you plan on using it for PC games, whats a point if you can Stream PC games to Shield and play on TV in other room?

[Q] Stream non shield supported games?

I am considering picking a shield up for my wife. I got her Elder Scrolls Online, and she very much enjoyed playing it with a controller. I used Xpadder to map all the controls and it worked wonderfully. My question to anyone with a shield is could i stream ESO to the shield. I know the game isnt officially supported, BUT if i used a third party app such as splashtop I could easily see the game on the devices screen. But would i be able to map the keys into xpadder? How does the shield connect to the computer? It would be AWESOME if this was possible, I just have no idea how i would map the shields controller to the PC.
Thanks in advance for any answers!

I'm not sure about ESO, but you can stream any non-Steam game to the Shield by adding the program/app to your Steam game list.
As for Xpadder, the Shield uses Xinput when playing games over game stream, so if you can get xpadder open and map the controls to a 360 controller, you should be able to then use the Shield with Xpadder when game streaming. Not 100% certain on this though, so you'd have to try it first.

suprgamr232 said:
I'm not sure about ESO, but you can stream any non-Steam game to the Shield by adding the program/app to your Steam game list.
As for Xpadder, the Shield uses Xinput when playing games over game stream, so if you can get xpadder open and map the controls to a 360 controller, you should be able to then use the Shield with Xpadder when game streaming. Not 100% certain on this though, so you'd have to try it first.
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Awesome! I think I will pick one up and give it a shot. Thanks!

[Q] nSHIELD (port) as mini Gaming PC

Hey guys, I had this idea I wanted to run by the community for feedback before I really started digging into it.
I attend PAX East every year and love being able to do Bring Your Own Computer for the LAN fest area. The big problem is my distance from Boston and the size of my PC Tower. Rather than focus on the biggest and beastest of Rigs, I wanted to try the other side of the formula.
The nSHIELD Portable is a decent little machine and seems to have less hardware issues than its newer nS Tablet does. What I want to eventually do is load Ubuntu onto it which would allow me to load Steam and then hook it up to the LAN network at PAX and play games with the other attendees. I currently have a Portable and am just looking for new ways to get more life out of it.
Does anyone have any experience in loading an OS onto the device or experience even in trying to do what Im describing? Any help is welcome
Thanks~

K41N2358 said:
Hey guys, I had this idea I wanted to run by the community for feedback before I really started digging into it.
I attend PAX East every year and love being able to do Bring Your Own Computer for the LAN fest area. The big problem is my distance from Boston and the size of my PC Tower. Rather than focus on the biggest and beastest of Rigs, I wanted to try the other side of the formula.
The nSHIELD Portable is a decent little machine and seems to have less hardware issues than its newer nS Tablet does. What I want to eventually do is load Ubuntu onto it which would allow me to load Steam and then hook it up to the LAN network at PAX and play games with the other attendees. I currently have a Portable and am just looking for new ways to get more life out of it.
Does anyone have any experience in loading an OS onto the device or experience even in trying to do what Im describing? Any help is welcome
Thanks~
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i don't know specifically, but I know there are some apps that help install Linux into android because android is based on the Linux kernel and can run it, try going on YouTube and searching Linux on android, or android Linux

K41N2358 said:
Hey guys, I had this idea I wanted to run by the community for feedback before I really started digging into it.
I attend PAX East every year and love being able to do Bring Your Own Computer for the LAN fest area. The big problem is my distance from Boston and the size of my PC Tower. Rather than focus on the biggest and beastest of Rigs, I wanted to try the other side of the formula.
The nSHIELD Portable is a decent little machine and seems to have less hardware issues than its newer nS Tablet does. What I want to eventually do is load Ubuntu onto it which would allow me to load Steam and then hook it up to the LAN network at PAX and play games with the other attendees. I currently have a Portable and am just looking for new ways to get more life out of it.
Does anyone have any experience in loading an OS onto the device or experience even in trying to do what Im describing? Any help is welcome
Thanks~
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Couple of problems with this:
To run Ubuntu you'd need a framebuffer driver compatible with Linux. Some people get around this by running a VNC viewer locally and basically loading up an X11 environment in the background. Performance for gaming would never be there.
Steam is X86 only. The Shield Portable is ARM, which I highly doubt will get a port of Steam. Even if it did, there are no games on steam that currently support ARM. And even if you cross compiled....
You'd be unable to run most OpenGL (think Linux's directX) games due to poor feature support. OpenGL ES is a smaller subset of functionality from the full OpenGL (which games like Half Life and Counter Strike run on) and OpenGL ES is what the Shield supports. To ad insult to injury, the Shield Portable only supports OpenGL ES 2.0 not the newer 3.0, meaning even less flexibility and programmability (less possibility for titles to be ported).
Sorry to burst your bubble. With GameStream though, you could game stream over the internet assuming there was enough download bandwidth where you were. You'd be better off looking at a Haswell based ultrabook if you want thin and light basic gaming.

you can not run PC games natively on a Shield, no matter what operating system it has.
with emulators such as dosbox turbo you can emulate older PCs, not faster than a Pentium 1, so you can only run DOS games and if you have a lot of time on your hand install Windows 95/98 to play games such as Half Life 1.
So for PC games you're better off with a Windows tablet.
Intel Atom Baytrail based tablets are fast enough to play games such as Portal 2.