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Hey everyone.
I'm trying to use Steam In-Home Streaming, but I'm having some issues.
I'm streaming from an Alienware laptop with a 7970m GPU and i7 3630 processor, so it should handle any game I throw at it, so that's not the issue.
The problem is, I get a bit of a "slow decode" error on the client laptop.
The problem I've seem to have figured out, is that the client laptop is using software decoding instead of hardware decoding.
Okay, so I enabled hardware decoding for the client laptop in the Steam settings, but when I take a look at the statistics, it still says it's using "libavcoder software decoding with 2 threads".
I want this to be hardware decoding, but I'm not sure what exactly I have to do on my laptop's end to get it activated.
I have downloaded the Dx redistributable file, but that hasn't seemed to do much of anything. For some reason Steam just refuses to decode using my hardware and it puts too much pressure on my CPU so I get a bit of choppiness.
By all accounts I should be able to do this, but I'm missing some key step that I can't seem to figure out.
Any ideas how to get Steam to use hardware decoding instead of software?
I'm trying to use Steam In-Home Streaming, but I'm having some issues.
I'm streaming from an Alienware laptop with a 7970m GPU and i7 3630 processor, so it should handle any game I throw at it, so that's not the issue.
The problem is, I get a bit of a "slow decode" error on the client laptop.
The problem I've seem to have figured out, is that the client laptop is using software decoding instead of hardware decoding.
Okay, so I enabled hardware decoding for the client laptop in the Steam settings, but when I take a look at the statistics, it still says it's using "libavcoder software decoding with 2 threads".
I want this to be hardware decoding, but I'm not sure what exactly I have to do on my laptop's end to get it activated.
I have downloaded the Dx redistributable file, but that hasn't seemed to do much of anything. For some reason Steam just refuses to decode using my hardware and it puts too much pressure on my CPU so I get a bit of choppiness.
By all accounts I should be able to do this, but I'm missing some key step that I can't seem to figure out.
Any ideas how to get Steam to use hardware decoding instead of software?