I’ve gotten back into my Steam library because of NVidia’s GeForce Now service, but there’s a handful of games I own but can’t play because the publishers won’t let NVidia stream them. The most resource intensive game I’m interested in is probably Batman: Arkham City, though I’d also like to use Dolphin to emulate some older Wii/GC games. What I’d like to do is add to my stable of NUCs/NUC-like systems in my networking closet, and stream to my Shield TV. I tried doing this with my fastest NUC, which is still only a Pentium SIlver J5005; while it’s at least got QuickSync, my expectations were very low, and I got about what I expected. The encoding process ate up every available CPU cycle, and left nothing to actually run a game. Would something like this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/mini-pc-review-the-ryzen-5-pro-2500u-powered-minisforum-um250/ do what I’m looking for? Anything else I should consider in the <$400 price range?
I think the problem is that under Linux only Nvidia GPUs do hardware accelerated streaming with Steam. Last time there was some work ongoing to get it working wth AMD GPUs as well, but I am not sure if that is available yet.
Oof, it sounds like that puts a pin in the AMD-based system, unless I want to run Windows (I don’t).
Apparently same with Intel GPU based systems. Maybe you can find a small PC where you can add a lower end Nvidia GPU via PCIe slot?
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3050602228716269850 aww snap