What if?

Constance · Post by **Constance** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:19 pm

So something on steam came out as a beta, named 'Steam Big Screen'. It allows you to play games from steam on your HDMI TV. From your HDMI monitor. And I was thinking: It also allows non-steam games. So what if, we could play Overgrowth on the big screen tv?

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HOLY SHIT THAT WOULD BE FUCKING WONDERFUL!!!

Shadow207B2 · Post by **Shadow207B2** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:39 pm

Considering that Overgrowth will be on steam...
This is going to work, although i would still like to use the PC.

Anton · Post by **Anton** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:43 am

How is this any different than just connecting a TV to your computer using HDMI?

akazi · Post by **akazi** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:24 am

Anton wrote:How is this any different than just connecting a TV to your computer using HDMI?

I was about to ask the same thing.

Shadow207B2 · Post by **Shadow207B2** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:56 am

Actually, that's what it is.
You need to connect your PC to your TV to play games...

LugaruFan · Post by **LugaruFan** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:32 pm

I already play all my games on a Philips big screen TV with HDMI.

fenwick · Post by **fenwick** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:06 pm

Steam's "big picture mode" is just a redesigned UI for Steam that works well on TVs. It doesn't change the way games run at all, it's just a convenient way to access your library, the store, a browser, and the steam community from your couch.

akazi · Post by **akazi** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:04 pm

fenwick wrote:Steam's "big picture mode" is just a redesigned UI for Steam that works well on TVs. It doesn't change the way games run at all, it's just a convenient way to access your library, the store, a browser, and the steam community from your couch.

This^

zzwerty · Post by **zzwerty** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:21 am

akazi wrote:
fenwick wrote:Steam's "big picture mode" is just a redesigned UI for Steam that works well on TVs. It doesn't change the way games run at all, it's just a convenient way to access your library, the store, a browser, and the steam community from your couch.
This^

Meaning you can already play overgrowth on a big screen TV

Constance · Post by **Constance** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:07 pm

I know, but Overgrowth on the TV with an XBOX/PS3 controller: Close enough to being on the consoles

Korban3 · Post by **Korban3** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:54 pm

Yeah, it's already completely possible.
I play games on our big screen TV via my computer it's great. Except that I have to keep resolutions low on this computer, due to lack of par GPU or CPU, for a lot of games.

bendy1001 · Post by **bendy1001** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:39 pm

Steam is really the middle man here.

Korban3 · Post by **Korban3** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:14 pm

Yeah, pretty much. I already get a half second delay from my input to my TV displaying something. Stupid TV companies and their loose standards on latency. I imagine running it through another application would only increase said latency.

Master XOY99 · Post by **Master XOY99** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:00 am

ASS!!!!!! James Rolfe is my idol

Constance · Post by **Constance** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:14 pm

And so it gets de-railed.

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