[Q] Shield to PC game streaming

[wizard62777]

I am very interested in getting a Shield, but unfortunately, I have dual Radeon 5750s graphic cards, and do not have 600 to 700 to buy a shield and upgrade a graphics card. I would like to know if anyone is familiar with the streaming technology and can it be hacked to work with older Nvidia cards or even an older Radeon cards (like my two XFX 5750s). If it is possible to do this, I think it will make the shield look a lot more interesting to a lot more people.

 

[glitchhawk]

i am not a programmer but i don't think its gonna be vary hackable because they say its hardware reliant. something the 600 and 700 series GPU's have inside them. however there are other options for ATI cards such as splashtop gamepad

but we won't know for certain untill it launches.

 

[agrabren]

I am very interested in getting a Shield, but unfortunately, I have dual Radeon 5750s graphic cards, and do not have 600 to 700 to buy a shield and upgrade a graphics card. I would like to know if anyone is familiar with the streaming technology and can it be hacked to work with older Nvidia cards or even an older Radeon cards (like my two XFX 5750s). If it is possible to do this, I think it will make the shield look a lot more interesting to a lot more people.

I can try to answer this, and hopefully won't be saying anything that would get me in trouble. The reason it requires a GTX 650 or better is because it requires some special hardware to reduce the latency. Having played with both Splashtop and SHIELD, the different between the two is significant. It is different in both quality (although SHIELD requires more bandwidth) and latency, where Spashtop has a "delayed reaction" issue making many games mildly annoying to play.

I think NVIDIA was smart is making sure the GTX 650 had the hardware, as this does give a relatively low cost of entry for people who have older cards and could use an upgrade anyway without spending a large amount on it.