Evening all,

 

First time poster, long time reader - I have found the information here invaluable over the last few months while building my system, so I just wanted to firstly thank everyone who has contributed, as I learn more I hope I too can help too!

 

I have a very specific question I was hoping for help with, firstly this is my set up;

 

unRAID 6.2.4

M/B: ASRock - Z270 Pro4

CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-7600 CPU @ 3.50GHz

Memory: 16 GB (max. installable capacity 64 GB)

Array: 3 x 3TB WD Reds (6TB + Parity)

Cache: SSD 1 x 120 GB Patriot Blast

HVM: Enabled

IOMMU: Enabled

 

It used as a general file server, I run a few dockers (Crash Plan, Plex MS, Observium) and also a Windows 10 VM which I RDP onto using a Mac for some very specific Windows applications - the unRaid server has been fantastic and very easy to configure with help of these forums.  It currently runs headless in the loft - great!

 

My question is this.  I recently bought an Nvidia Shield TV, mainly for 4K video streaming, think Netflix and also Amazon (thanks to recent update) and so on which is when I came across Gamestream, this is having your main PC (unRaid server) with an appropriate Nvidia GPU rendering games and streaming to Shield TV in my lounge on my TV - PC gaming with console comfort.

 

You can see that I have yet to buy a GPU as I wanted to ask here first whether anybody has actually set this up yet?  I don't mind teething problems (I would probably be a little disappointed if there weren't a couple) but is there any obvious issues above which would cause a major problem?  Would my unRAID server being headless cause an issue? 

 

Any help, advice or thoughts would be very much appreciated - and of course if I do get it up and running I will happy post again showing here.

 

Many thanks - J

 

Update - Just for clarity I would install and run the server side Gamestream software on the Windows 10 VM.

I'm not much help in answering your question, but I can say that this is one of those things that I am planning on trying out as well. Just waiting on a new disk to get done preclearing and then I can move to some new hardware that will handle VM's better.

 

I have used Gamestream from a non virtual non headless Windows 10 pc and it worked ok.

Yes it works. But your have to use a Headless Dongle:

 

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-headless/

 

 

Thanks chvb,

 

I thought it might have - nice to have it confirmed!  I'll get one ordered and crack on.

the Problem is that Nvidia disable the Gamestream function when there is no Monitor detected.

So you have to use this Dongle for a headless PC.

I bought a headless dongle, but it appears not to be working yet. Do I need to install / set up the dongle?

tried today - working via "moonlight" as i have only Android TV box, not the original shield.

Windows is in VM and passthrough 1080ti

These are the HDMI dummy plugs I use.

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0746HLHKM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

All I had to do was just plug them in.  Then I used splashtop, vnc, jump desktop, no machine, etc, to connect to vm and set video resolution.  The things just work and I haven't had any issues using a gtx645 and a gtx1050ti.

 

I've used the vm's as steam hosts for steam links and Nvidia gamestream to shield tv's.  I'm shocked how well it all works.

i dont have even "dummy plug" works fine without it...

 

Only issue i had was NVIDIA Experience - wasnt able to enable Shield (on fresh 417.22-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql) but when i downgraded to "399.24-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql" then upgraded back to 417.22 all was working again...:)

Please forgive my lack of understanding but my shield doesnt work well with the gamelink as my laptop processor simply isnt powerful. I bought a game on steam but its useless to play. Would this be a suitable alternative? Could I use a vm to use the power of the shield to play?

I have a windows vm with rtx gpu and play games on main tv via shield with xbox ctl.

 

Server is in a different room. Performance seems ok my son uses it for forza mainly as we have playstations and not xbox