brokaaa
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hey there,
I'm normally playing Civ6 on a PC (Win10 with i7 3.4Ghz, Radeon R7 260x and 24 GB of RAM). I tried to stream the game onto my my macbook (MBP Retina 13'' 2015, i7 3.1 Ghz, no graphics to speak of, 16GB of RAM) via the steam client.
It works in principle. However, there are 2 annoying issues:
1. scrolling/zooming is not exactly smooth...there's a certain delay until full resolution is re-established after zooming etc...feels kind of like when a youtube video is scaling down resolution if the connection slows momentarily; also graphics generally don't look too pretty (bearable...but not as sharp somehow). Wifi should be able to transmit the data across fast enough I guess (my macbook says it gets 145 Mbps from the router and the PC is on a cable anyway); maybe there's some transcoding or something involved in the streaming process that is too much for my machine? Civ6 graphics run smoothly on the PC itsself.
2. I can't seem to change the client (macbook) resolution; there's a setting for that in the steam application but no matter what I choose, it seems it's always displayed at what is probably native macbook Retina resolution....which makes the icons/text very small etc; also I suspect this contributes to the poor graphics performance...any idea on why I can't change that? I'd love to at least try a lower client resolution and see how it works out....
another weird issue: I can't even change the resolution from the main menu in-game (on the PC)...there's only 1920*1080 available (which is the default and maximum resolution of my display, but it generally supports lower resolutions of course)
edit: if I change PC display resolution in Windows before starting steam, it will of course adapt to the new resolution and will also then stream that resolution to the client...however, performance ist still not that great and this procedure is a bit unsatisfiying of course (particularly since there are setting built into the steam client to deal with this stuff)...
thanks for any help!
brokaaa
I'm normally playing Civ6 on a PC (Win10 with i7 3.4Ghz, Radeon R7 260x and 24 GB of RAM). I tried to stream the game onto my my macbook (MBP Retina 13'' 2015, i7 3.1 Ghz, no graphics to speak of, 16GB of RAM) via the steam client.
It works in principle. However, there are 2 annoying issues:
1. scrolling/zooming is not exactly smooth...there's a certain delay until full resolution is re-established after zooming etc...feels kind of like when a youtube video is scaling down resolution if the connection slows momentarily; also graphics generally don't look too pretty (bearable...but not as sharp somehow). Wifi should be able to transmit the data across fast enough I guess (my macbook says it gets 145 Mbps from the router and the PC is on a cable anyway); maybe there's some transcoding or something involved in the streaming process that is too much for my machine? Civ6 graphics run smoothly on the PC itsself.
2. I can't seem to change the client (macbook) resolution; there's a setting for that in the steam application but no matter what I choose, it seems it's always displayed at what is probably native macbook Retina resolution....which makes the icons/text very small etc; also I suspect this contributes to the poor graphics performance...any idea on why I can't change that? I'd love to at least try a lower client resolution and see how it works out....
another weird issue: I can't even change the resolution from the main menu in-game (on the PC)...there's only 1920*1080 available (which is the default and maximum resolution of my display, but it generally supports lower resolutions of course)
edit: if I change PC display resolution in Windows before starting steam, it will of course adapt to the new resolution and will also then stream that resolution to the client...however, performance ist still not that great and this procedure is a bit unsatisfiying of course (particularly since there are setting built into the steam client to deal with this stuff)...
thanks for any help!
brokaaa
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