KingsGambit
Caldari Knights
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Posted - 2008.10.27 09:37:00 -
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The one question that really needs answering is where would your partner be watching movies? From the desktop presumably? If you simply enable sharing on your Eve folder, any other PCs on the network will have access to it (assuming all settings correct, eg. they can currently share files between them). You can then run the eve.exe on the desktop, from the laptop, although in this scenario the laptop is actually doing the processing. There's no way to have your desktop do the work and have it simply appear on your laptop. There *are* some remote control softwares that are capable of handling DirectX apps, but usually the software itself proves quite a bottleneck, and also this would preclude the desktop from doing anything else.
Even if you had a 24k gold cat-7 ethernet x-over cable plugging the two machines together thru gigabit NICs, using remote control software would be really clunky for gaming. Also, regardless, watching a movie at the same time as playing a graphically intensive game on the same machine, regardless off where the graphics are going will hammer the processor. GFX cards have built in DVD decoding hardware usually, so a PC could *probably* play a DVD whilst file serving a game but not a file like an AVI or MPG, the hard disk or CPU (multi core possibly excepted) would be a bottleneck. Also, though I'm sure you're aware, Fast Ethernet is 100Mb/s, your local hard drive is at it's slowest ~ATA100, capable of up to 100MB/s...even ignoring overhead, there's a huge difference in bandwidth. And if you're using Wi-Fi it's even worse.
In summary, is there a reason you can't simply install Eve classic on your laptop, and let your partner have the desktop? That way you both have the full processing power of your respective machines, and you don't have to play a game from a network hard drive.
In theory, turning off graphics acceleration on your desktop should allow a remote control client to display a DirectX app (WMP, games, etc) though turning off hardware GFX acceleration to play a game seems a little...counter-intuitive.  If you need anything more, some more info about your setup would help.
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