Remote GPU

Question

Hi

I have only recently heard about remote GPU. From my understanding, it is the ability to have a device (in my instance a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 i7 6650U 256GB/16GB) and utilizing the graphics capabilities of my Windows gaming laptop, in order to play games on my portable Microsoft Surface, that it might not be able to play on its own.

Firstly, I would like to know if this is actually possible, and secondly, if so, how would I go about doing it.

It might be important to mention that the games I play are mainly either 'point and click', or 'FMV' games. I have no idea how graphics-intensive these games are, and the Surface Pro 4 may well indeed be able to handle these types of games on its own.

Thank you for your time.

Richard Sparks

Answer 1

Yes, they should run easily on your device, even more intensive games should run easily.

Answer 2

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

Its nice to know that my tablet should be able to run most steam games on their own,

I dont really play what would be called GPU intensive, I mainly just play point and click games, as well as FMV games, some of the latest ones being "The Infectious Madness Of Doctor Dekker", "Dark Nights with Poe and Munro", "The Shapeshifting Detective", "Late Shift", etc, most of which can be found on steam, and are all basically just movies with decisions to be made, which I hope you will agree, would not be considered GPU intensive, and should run fairly easily on my tablet.

Please let me know if I am wrong about this.

Thanks again.

Richard Sparks

Answer 3

Hi yobydnub,
I'm Rodrigo and I will help you.
These kinds of games are not GPU intensive, you can run them on your Surface without problems.
If you want to play more GPU-intensive games on your Surface using the processing power of another device, Steam has Remoteplay, which you can use to run the game on a device and stream the image and the controls on another device .

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay#anywhere

But in your case, Parsec is a better option.

https://parsec.app/

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