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[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
STEAM

Can someone help me?

My Limelight works but when I'm inside "Steam Big-Picture" and try to launch a game, the menu fades for a few seconds and then comes back, no game starting. It's been like this for days now and I cant stream the games anymore... Anyone else with similar problems? I've tried Steam Beta too...
[Shield General] Zaza9999:
I haven't been able to pair Limelight to GFE. I keep getting this error:

GFE error: Streaming session has failed due to a game management error. (Error code: 522)

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both GFE and my drivers, as well as multiple reboots. I also tried something mentioned on page 78, namely to move both the x86 and 64 bit versions of the NvStreamSrv folder to the same drive and point the registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\NvStreamSrv to the new location. Nothing has worked. If anyone could help I'd greatly appreciate it.
[Shield General] nk33:
I have that problem when the resolution of the game is set too high for the client monitor. Try changing the resolution to a lower one in game locally, then try again.
[Shield General] welly_59:
How do i add games to the list of games on my device? For example i have deadlight in my steam library but it doesnt show in list of games in limelight, do i need to add it to gfe somehow?
[Shield General] Shattermatter:
+1

That's funny. I'm in the exact same position right now.. :o A Guide would help a lot, since it somehow doesn't work on my FireTV. There's definitely something I'm doing wrong..
[Shield General] MalaBouM:
Yes you must add your games in gfe if you dont want use steam big picture

Envoyé de mon K00C en utilisant Tapatalk
[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
That didn't work.

Some months ago it worked without any problems and I could have max resolution and Nvidia(?) would scale it before streaming.

I have the same problems on both my Laptop and smartphone (OnePlusOne).

This is what happens (Recorded on my OPO):

[Youtube]Ybu89tGLeu8[/Youtube]

Forgot to mention that I cant launch the games from Limelight either (except for Minecraft and LOL)

---------- Post added at 03:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------

Add them as custom games (non-steam games) inside Steam and then add Steam to GFE.
[Shield General] nk33:
Ok, when your accessing from your droid, dont go through steam…. Just make sure youbadd the shortcut to gfe click straight into it.. No need for steam
[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
Well, as I added to my original post the same time you responded:

"Forgot to mention that I cant launch the games from Limelight either (except for Minecraft and LOL)"

I cant launch any "fullscreen" game, games with launchers works tho.

I also want to play through steam cause I own games that doesn't add to GFE (Older pc games for instance), but first I need to get ANY game to work...
[Shield General] nk33:
Ok, my bad mate. Not sure what else you can try apart fron deleting the pairs… I know you uninstalled but sometimes deleting the pairs and re-pairing works better
[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
Pairs? As in the same game inside GFE and Steam?

I just tried it out and I can start games from GFE, but not from Steam BigPicture. If I run Steam BigPicture from the PC without any limelight involved everythings works great...
[Shield General] estabon:
Is there a way to play games with no internet?

Hello,

I want to know if/and how I can stream games from my PC to my Tablet without using outside internet? Can I create my own network in my home that runs just this. I noticed last night that I was getting horrible stuttering because my kids were on Netflix. I want to know if I can setup a independent system in my home for just gamestreaming that wouldn't need internet from my ISP. I am assuming my PC would have to push out some kind of wifi signal to my tablet at a high rate of speed to do so. Anyone else done this before?
[Shield General] nk33:
This does use your own network as well as internet… .it works with both
[Shield General] estabon:
Is there a way to make it not work with intent and just my own network?
[Shield General] illuminerdi:
I'm using Limelight on a Tegra 4 device (the ADT-1) and I absolutely LOVE it, big thanks to all your hard work on this - it has enabled me to play my PC library on my TV and it is so awesome.

I ran into a bit of a problem yesterday that I'm not sure exactly who to turn to though: I'm using a Madcatz CTRLR paired to my ADT-1 and it works great most of the time. However during the Steam sale I picked up a new game that it *doesn't* seem to work properly with: How to Survive.

For whatever reason, this game does not read the Start or Back buttons when playing it via Limelight. If I hook up a 360 controller to my PC directly it has no problem reading them, so it's not some kind of issue with the game - at least in terms of reading controller inputs.

Has anyone else run into a similar problem? I'm not quite sure if this is an issue with Limelight not correctly sending the inputs to the game correctly, or if it's something else. I need to do more testing to see if other controllers hooked up to limelight have the same problem or if it's just the CTRLR.

For what it's worth, other games work just fine via Limelight and the CTRLR - I've logged 40+ hours of Saints Row 4 without a single issue and also played Metal Gear Rising and both registered Start/Back button presses from the CTRLR with no issues.

I'm not sure if it's relevant or not, but How to Survive is something I have to stream via the Steam Big Picture and not directly like I was with MGR and SR4, so I'm not sure if streaming through Steam is where the problem is, I need to test that out as well, but I'm pretty sure it's not because I think I tested a few other games through Steam and they worked fine.

Has anyone else run into this?

Also one last question; I have the official Google Gamepad / Nexus Player controller which is really nice and I prefer the feel of it over the CTRLR, but it doesn't have Start/Back buttons like a 360 gamepad does. It has "Back" (as in the Android "go back") button and "Home". This is a really stupid oversight from an otherwise great controller - is there any way to remap these buttons so that Limelight treats them like Start/Back on a 360 pad so that I can play games with this controller instead? I love how it feels and I would prefer to use this instead of the CTRLR but the lack of those 2 buttons is an obvious dealbreaker.

Ironically enough, even some native android games have this same problem. Soul Calibur for Android requires you to press "Start" in order to continue after losing a match, so you actually can't play it correctly with this controller, despite the game otherwise working fine. Pretty ironic oversight.
[Shield General] welly_59:
The games are already in steam, how do i add steam to gfe? Akso i have heard that you can have steam big picture on my phone instead of the list of games from limelight, how do i do that?
[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
Well, as you can see in the video you quoted me on, I open Limelight, select the pc and in the game-list I select Steam. When you choose steam as a "game" it launches steam in "Steam Big Picture".

To add Steam to your gamelist you have to add your steam install folder to Nvidia GeForce Experience so it can find it.

Nvidia GeForce Experience -> Settings -> Games -> Places and hit the + to add a location for Nvidia Experience to search through for games (including steam). My Steam was installed (as standard) on my C:\ drive and therefore I added my entire C:\ drive to search for games. Steam wont show up on the gamelist tho....

Correct me if I'm wrong ;)
[Shield General] nk33:
Like I said it doesnt need internet mate
[Shield General] akornoway:
Im sure this has been discussed previously on this thread but I just can't seem to find it any info on it. My question was how do I setup off network streaming from PC to PC. I understand the android app saves the host computer and is able to access it off LAN but I can't seem to find similar functionality on the PC version of limelite.

Thanks much
[Shield General] nk33:
In order to use pc to pc streaming, you need to:

A) have steam installed on the host

B) make sure it is running in the system tray

C) make sure the shortcuts to the games have been added to it

D) make sure steam shortcut is in GFE along with all the games shortcuts

Good luck
[Shield General] akornoway:
I understand these steps in getting the PC's paired on the same LAN using the local IP address of the host computer. But how would I connect to the host computer on a WAN? Basically how do I connect to the host computer when i'm not on my home network.
[Shield General] nk33:
As with any application coming in from outside your LAN You need to forward the relevant ports on your router to the host pc and put your wan ip address into limelight instead of the local one.
[Shield General] Shattermatter:
So, I figured out how to solve the firewall-issue with my Amazon Fire TV: I just deinstalled and installed GFE again. Then my pc got paired with the Fire TV.

I started and played Dishonored for about five minutes to test if it works. After quiting the game, my desktop didn't change back to normal resolution. I had to force quit the stream in my taskmanager. Then I restarted the pc and since then my pc stays offline in Limelight.

Today I tested again to see if it works and I noticed that Limelight was ready to stream. But it only stayed two seconds, after that he switched again to be offline.

Did anyone ecounter this issue before?
[Shield General] bungie240:
Can I connect to my home pc which contains all the relevant hardware/games on another pc say 50 miles away? I've downloaded the windows jar onto the pc away from home where I've entered the ip address of my home pc (what contain games/hardware) and paired them successfully...but when I click on start streaming screen goes blank then comes back with the following message...the app steam is not in GFE app list, not sure how to fix this.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
[Shield General] nk33:
Make sure that:

1) steam is installed on host

2) sream is running in the taskbar on host

3) the shortcut for steam has a) been added to the gfe list of games and b) has been renamed to steam
[Shield General] ElectricPulze:
Am I the only one with this steam problem? Limelight is useless to me if I can't play through Steam...
[Shield General] bungie240:
Thanks, i had to change the name on the shortcut to STEAM.
[Shield General] berryman13:
Just came upon this.

Wondering if anybody tried it with an actual NVIDIA Shield, does it have some support for things that it normally doesn't, etc?

Gonna check it out on my 32GB LTE SHIELD Tablet. I am working on a LOLLIPOP ROM that is very AOSP but much more customizable than the current version of the tablet....this may be a great solution to all the nvidia proprietary stuff for it, but it may also not be necessary. I see a hacky patch at some point in the future :P
[Shield General] bungie240:
Limelight is working great at streaming in my home to z2 tablet. I would really like to setup a remote stream when I'm away from home, is this possible? So for example if I visited my mum and used her laptop could I access my games and play from her house? If this is possible I would appreciate any guidance that anyone can give.

FYI - Im using GFE version 2.1.3 and my router is a BT homehub 4.

Thanks in advance.
[Shield General] Zaza9999:
Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
[Shield General] ktownhero:
I just downloaded Limelight but I have no idea where I'm supposed to enter the pin?

Sent via Tapatalk on the Oneplus One
[Shield General] androidyeah:
Hi,

I recently discovered that the Fire TV is working really good with Limelight. The issue seems to be, that if I had watched XBMC/Kodi before, it would cause Limelight to produce lag. However, if I restart the Fire TV and go directly into Limelight, it's working really smooth and lag free.

Thanks!
[Shield General] the_mentor:
You enter the pin on the computer after you initiate the pairing from your phone
[Shield General] juasker:
Did anyone tried limelight with rockchip 3288?

I'm thinking to buy a tv box with RK3288 processor to stream fifa from pc to TV, but i want to be sure there will be near no lag for playing.

And one more stupid question: do limelight support more than one controller at the same time? (for sport games)

Thanks
[Shield General] jpeich:
I am afraid the only chipsets that really give minimal lag are tegra ones: 3,4 and k1. Moreover with latest changes from 2.1.5 GFE. Second controller is not possible as the gfe streaming protocol doesnt support second player.

Regards
[Shield General] illuminerdi:
I can mostly confirm this. Limelight has performed extremely poorly on every RK3188 tablet I've tried it on, as well as my phone (a 2014 Moto G; Snapdragon 400). I also got middling results when running it on a FireTV, though this was something like 5 or 6 months ago when Limelight was still very early, so I'm not sure how much has improved there. I saw reports earlier in this thread from people who indicated that the FireTV can do this acceptably.

Meanwhile, I have an ADT-1 (the Android TV development kit - thanks google!) which runs a Tegra 4 and that thing completely *smokes* every other device in Limelight. Streaming to it via Ethernet (end to end) I get 20ms latency on average at 1080p/60fps, with my encoding around 25-30Mbits. I might be able to encode higher, but that's already enough to produce a near perfect image.

So if you're looking to BUY a device for use with Limelight, definitely get a Tegra.

Hell, for ~$50 on Ebay you can get an Ouya (Tegra 3) - it even has a wireless controller already. I don't know how well the Tegra 3 performs on Limelight, but I imagine it works pretty well since the T3 is still a powerful chip compared to what you'll find in most other devices.

Unfortunately there are no Tegra K1 microconsoles at the moment, the only one announced is the Snail Obox and that's not due until Q3 of 2015, so a Tegra 4 might be the highest you can get at the moment. The Madcatz MOJO runs a Tegra 4, though it's a bit pricey ($200). To be fair though, the Madcatz CTRLR is actually a very solid controller (I own one), so it's not a bad investment if you want something with more oomph than an Ouya and a better controller included.
[Shield General] nk33:
I dont know what everyone's going on about, both my devices are not tegra yet i dont get any lag. The only time i do get lag is:

1) Using 2.4ghz wifi sometimes - change to 5ghz its fine

2) Using 2.4ghz with a bluetooth controller every time - (to sort this i just use an xbox controller instead or use 5ghz)

3) Wack wifi

4) Wack mobile data (eg 3g or below)

otherwise no lag
[Shield General] NapalmDawn:
Thanks for this Illum. I have an ADT-1 that I plan hook up, root and try this on. I had asked a few pages back if anybody had done this so it's good to see it works as well as I'd hoped it would.

Here's the snail device http://www.xda-developers.com/android/snail-games-w3d-hands-on-at-ces-2015-xda-tv/
[Shield General] illuminerdi:
Yeah I love it. It does have *some* quirks though. Since the ADT-1 is still running the LPX13D release of Android it seems to have some of the same bluetooth problems that the Nexus Player has - namely that sometimes my Madcatz controller will lose its pairing and need to be re-paired every few hours. Also for some reason controllers will sometimes behave...oddly. Like the controller itself will get severe lag. This seems to happen when I have both the Google controller and the CTRLR turned on at the same time, but it has happened when only 1 controller was on. The fix is just the reboot the controller and/or re-pair it, but it's an annoying glitch that crops up every once in a while. So if you are getting lag in Limelight make sure it's not coming from the controller before assuming that Limelight or your network are the problem.

But overall I *love* Limelight on my ADT-1.

Also after rooting my ADT-1 I hacked the keylayout file so that the "home" button on my Google Controller is now a "start" button instead (a glaring oversight on the part of Google/Asus engineers, IMO), so if you don't want to have to buy a second controller to use Limelight properly with your ADT-1 and don't know how to do this on your own let me know and I can write up a detailed walkthrough. The short version: root your system, pull the keylayout file for the controller (in /usr/system/keylayout) via ADB - make sure you get the file for the Google controller (Vendor_18d1 _blah.kl) *not* the one for the Asus controller even though they're virtually identical. Change the key from HOME to BUTTON_START, push the keylayout file back to the ADT-1 and overwrite the old one and bam, you're done (though now your home button won't work on the controller - I need to see if I can remap the middle button to be the new "home" button but I haven't had time to do this yet).
[Shield General] Hobbes2099:
Just wanted to voice my support for this development. limelight is working perfectly with all of my Android devices.

A donation version of the app would generate quite a bit of money and by God have you earned it and then some.

Fantastic job.

I'm now stalking github, refreshing the page every few minutes hoping for an update. Kinda like the last scene in The Social Network (just not as creepy).
[Shield General] hunter99507:
Love the project, and it is superior to gamestream which is awesome! I havent seen anything recently, is this still active development? Thanks
[Shield General] whoispacman:
stumped

I can't seem to properly set up limelight and my router to work outside of my LAN network. i have all the necessary ports forwarded in my routers interface and when i connect from home i can play fine. i also enabled remote access on my router as well as turning off all firewall capabilities. So when I turn wifi off on my device and try to use the 4glte network I can no longer connect to my computer. the image of the computer on the limelight app goes dim and asks to send wake on LAN request. At one point I was able to see the list of games but when i would launch one i would get; error cannot connect to port 48010 rtsp handshake failed 104.14.85.206 something to that effect. Can someone please offer some more in-depth trouble shooting advice because I'm seriously stumped at this point. I'm using a samsung galaxy s4 and my home network clocks in about 50mbps down and only 5mbps up just adding these details in case this may be causing problems. I'd like to say thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time out to address this problem because i've already seen it in the thread but i just could not find a solution.
[Shield General] the_mentor:
I've been using my nexus player to Stream kodi/xbmc from my computer just for fun and I have no lag streaming 1080p movies
[Shield General] jpeich:
I am sorry but we are all referring to the lag that determines if an interactive game gives the perception that it is being locally executed on the tablet. Film streaming does not suffer from this crytical timing restrictions.
[Shield General] mooproxy:
I recently moved to a new network (back at my Uni), and now seem unable to connect to my PC through limelight. When I try, I get the option to send a wake-on-LAN request, but this doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone know how to fix this?
[Shield General] nk33:
Are you using your uni's internet?
[Shield General] mooproxy:
Yes, but the internet here is significantly faster than my home network.
[Shield General] nk33:
i wasnt asking you for that reason - mainly because most uni's lockdown their internet so the firewall will have rules preventing this and you wont be able to get them to change the rules either.
[Shield General] wilflare:
any recommended settings?

or should I just keep to 720p?
[Shield General] AdmiralBobbery:
Hi,

I'm having the exact same issues that you are having.

I'm running Limelight (the rooted version) on a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 using 5ghz Wifi aswell with target resolution/fps set to 1080p 60fps and bitrate at 30Mbps (have also tested lower and higher settings with the exact same results).

Everything runs practically perfect 60fps, smooth as butter for severan minutes and then suddenly everything almost grinds to a halt for several seconds after which streaming resumes smoothly again.

The symptoms appears like a buffering issue but I don't know, it's definately not a decoding/processing issue since it consitently runs smooth and almost like clockwork at consistent intervals starts loosing packets and stutters like crazy.

Hope someone knows of a solution to this.

Thanks.

UPDATE: Did some more testing and some discoveries.

The problem does appear to be an issue with the 5ghz network. Every scan I have performed has shown that there are only two 5ghz networks reachable from my house (one of them being my own) but both of them are on very different channels and should not be interfering with each other.

So I switched my android tablet to using the 2.4Ghz network and that brough about a completely new set of issues :) See I'm using a Dualshock 4 controller through bluetooth and that does not play nice with the 2.4ghz wifi receiver in my Galaxy Tab Pro.

So i tried switching to an XBOX360 controller aswell as tried using my DS4 through USB and both worked perfectly and the streaming stopped dropping packets.

So the solution, in my case, is to use USB connected gamepads when using Limelight game streaming and using my 2.4Ghz wifi. A bit annoying that I cant use the Dualshock 4 wirelessly with Gamesteaming but according to a few google searches that seems to be a known issue with Snapdragon 800/801 SOCs

Hope my findings can help others in a similar situation to find a sulution that will solve their problems.

Cheers,
[Shield General] wilflare:
thanks so much for this! I would just like to clarify something

the DS4 is supported natively right?

I can connect it via OTG-USB to my Note3 or pair it via Bluetooth? (no need for Sixaxis or anything like that?)

EDIT: during GameStream - do we actually get surround sound signals or just stereo?
[Shield General] AdmiralBobbery:
The DS4 is supported natively if connected through USB-OTG (no need for apps or root). You need Sixaxis Controller app for Bluetooth connectivity (and your device needs to be rooted aswell)

Limelight maps the DS4 buttons and sticks to correspond with the buttons in the same places as the XBOX360 controller.

Beware though, the XBOX360 Guide Button / PS Button is NOT supported by any app. If you press this button, Android acts as if you have pressed the Home button on your tablet/phone and it will return you to your launcher home screen and cut the connection to your streaming PC.

Regarding audio: Only Stereo audio is transmitted. It uses a "virtual" Nvidia audiodevice on the PC that is only active and visible in Playback devices while streaming and this device only supports 2-channel stereo output.
[Shield General] wilflare:
thanks for the reply! really appreciate it!

I managed to connect the DS4 to my Note3 without SixAxis... however it's just very laggy (a definite input lag)

when in Wired mode, the PS Home Button functions correctly as the Steam Home Button though.

ah so no matter where I use Limelight (even on a device plugged to a receiver - I won't be able to enjoy surround or anything like that right?)

I'm having issues with image quality on the Amazon FireTV. I can set the stream and bandwidth to 100 and it works without any stuttering. However, there is noticeable blockiness. like the Steam Big Picture mode, the different shades of blue are patchy rather than a smooth gradient. Any idea why? I tried switching between software and hardware decoders and it made no difference at all.

(The PS Button doesn't work at all when the DS4 is connected via USB to the Amazon FireTV)