I am having problems decoding more than 720p on my client for a 4K display. By that I mean setting the windows resolution to 720p manual for loss free stream. Changing the BigPicture resolution doesn’t matter. Over that 720p setting my client is losing frames, about 20% frame loss at 1080p and about 50% at 4K.

Host: I7-6700K 16 GB RAM NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB (rendering in 1080p)

Client: Intel Pentium G4600T (3Ghz) 8 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 630 (iGPU) with up to 3GB shared RAM

Wired connection 100Mbit (tested it on 1Gbit with my Notebook for a client, familiar results. Notebook has an I5 430M and an NVIDIA GT330M)

Hardware acceleration on the client is enabled, and it shows that it is using DXVA2 for decoding. Quality is set to fast, bandwidth is set to automatic on client and host.

I am using my client as an HTPC with Windows 10 and Kodi as media software. I know that this client has no trouble putting out a 4K60fps Demo video from LG (h.265), and no trouble displaying 720p TV shows (h.264) upscaled to 4K. So what is going on?

The Task Manager shows that the GPU is almost 100% utilized under the section 3D, the section video decode shows utilization like playing back a 720p or 1080p video file. But why is the 3D load that high? Is that just the upscaling, showing the stream on the 4k resolution?

I made snapshots, but I can’t find them on client or host … no “streaming” folder in the steam directory.

Do I really need a dedicated graphics card for that, or what can I do about it? What’s then the point of streaming anyway?

Intel HD graphics cards can not handle that resolution. You need to upgrade that piece of hot garbage.

This is most likely a bot. Their only other post is an obvious spam message that never got deleted (they were posting in Talk for support with Eve Online).

Not to mention this post doesn't make a whole lot of sense in regards to streaming to a "client" of some kind. If this isn't a bot, I'll let them tell me otherwise. If they don't, then OpieOP