Nvidia Shield Portable Steam
The ultimate portable for serious gamers.
Nvidia shield portable steam. The basic requirements are a wi fi router and a modern gaming pc with a geforce gtx 650 or higher desktop gpu. The service is all free on the shield side you just have to own the game. Sonic 4 episode ii expendable. 1 verify all of your software applications including geforce experience steam and nvidia drivers are up to date.
If it will run i ll pick one up and make it the dedicated xcloud rig the shield looks cool. This thread is to capture information and assist users who are not able to stream pc games to their shield or launch steam from within shield. Geforce gtx 650 or higher desktop gpu notebook. Both are connected to ethernet.
Is there a problem with this update 2 4 5 28. Nvidia kepler based geforce gtx 600m or higher notebook gpu the full list of supported gtx gpus for notebook is. During network scan it only detects 1 potential host computer running steam. Rearmed android browser and miracast.
I saw a thread about it but there wasn t enough info to come to a verdict. This effectively turns the shield into a steam link. It seems to randomly select which name it chooses to show once the scan is done either showing host computer 1 or host computer 2 never both. The detailed requirements are.
Seems to be unique to the nvidia shield portable as the shield tv 2018 and remote play from a laptop both work perfectly. Optional update this software upgrade updates shield portable to android 5 1. As part of this update several apps and features that are not supported on android 5 1 will be removed including. From next generation android games to wirelessly streaming pc games shield is gaming the way it s meant to be played.
Some tips to help you troubleshoot your issue. Now you can stream any game you own from your own pc. Has anyone definitively got xcloud to run on an nvidia shield portable with the built in controller. 880m 870m 860m 850m 780m 770m 765m 680m 675mx 670mx and 660m.
For games that aren t on the streaming service but you own on steam you can install the steam link app. It works now i need to know why with the last nvidia geforce experience update i can t stream normally. It only officially supports nvidia s own android based shield devices but with a third party open source gamestream client known as moonlight you can stream games to windows pcs macs linux pcs iphones ipads and non shield android devices. There is a huge list of free games too.
No i do not want to use the steam link app in the play store on my nvidia shield tv nor does anyone else who was intrested in getting the configured game streaming packaged device the point of buying it was that the consumer would be able to play whatever directly and not bogged down with multiple devices working together to allow game play so kind sir what i would like to do is actually.