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Using Steam to let my brother play on my PC, while being 10km away.

Nice.

@LukeAlmighty Isn't the streaming-playing quite high in latency? Or is that not relevant for the game in question?

@Jens_Rasmussen
We did a tech test now.
Of course it's not ideal, but I think it is playable in most games. (he tested it on a lego game anyway.)

@LukeAlmighty I tried it years ago by accident. I couldn't handle the latency at all.

@Jens_Rasmussen
Still, it is amazing to see that Steam offers it as a free service though.

@LukeAlmighty Being able to do it with games for you own account is nice, but the Remote Play Together is more or less the same feature, but where you can share with other accounts. Only works for some games though, and the latency is still too awful for most 2-player games such as action games and fighting games.

@Jens_Rasmussen Ok, that's weird.
I would expect the play together to be enabled on all games.

@LukeAlmighty It works for all games I've tried where it could be relevant, but that's not so many.
@LukeAlmighty That's what the regular "remote-play-on-same-account" is for. Which isn't the same as Remote Play Together.

@Jens_Rasmussen
My brother doesn't hame the same account. He has only a shared library.

But there seems to be a great workaround.

>The short answer is yes, however it requires a (generally older/looser DRM?) donor steam game with Remote Play Together enabled.

>An example is LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame (2008). Gutting/deleting the local Lego Batman game files and creating either hardlinks or transferring the non-steam game files, followed by making sure the new game exe is appropriately titled (in this case "LEGOBatman.exe") seems to work.

>There's plenty of other games besides Lego Batman this works for, but it's up to you to scan the compatibility list and find one you own. Target non-steam games it's compatible with is likely a little more hit-or-miss, but in general it's probably fair to assume that if it works on Parsec it'll work through Steam.

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