--- title: Remote GameStream: Nvidia Shield to Get Remote Streaming description: PC gamers will soon be able to play from anywhere if the connection's fast enough. canonical: https://time.com/37579/nvidia-shield-pc-game-streaming-hits-the-road/ author: Jared Newman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T21:13:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:49.519Z article:section: Business og:title: Remote GameStream: Nvidia Shield to Get Remote Streaming og:description: PC gamers will soon be able to play from anywhere if the connection's fast enough. og:url: https://time.com/37579/nvidia-shield-pc-game-streaming-hits-the-road/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteab696cd7b805eac/6986873513c79f3e721913bf/nvidiashield.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: nvidiashield og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Remote GameStream: Nvidia Shield to Get Remote Streaming twitter:description: PC gamers will soon be able to play from anywhere if the connection's fast enough. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteab696cd7b805eac/6986873513c79f3e721913bf/nvidiashield.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # With Remote Play, Nvidia Shield's Killer PC Game Streaming Hits the Road > Sponsored content. 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[Become a member](/c/pmi-2026-q3/membership?i=d83705f8-d68b-4e40-9f89-46cab46598fd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1). ## Video: A History of Video Gaming Consoles [Watch (HLS stream): A History of Video Gaming Consoles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/c8bQ37tV.m3u8) (23:45)  _Published 2014-01-08. The full series on gaming consoles packed into one video for you to watch._ by [Jared Newman](/author/jared-newman/) ## Jared Newman Mar 25, 2014 9:13 PM CUT  Jared Newman for TIME by [Jared Newman](/author/jared-newman/) ## Jared Newman Mar 25, 2014 9:13 PM CUT Starting next week, Nvidia Shield owners won’t have to be at home to tap into their PC gaming collections. An update for Nvidia’s gaming handheld, scheduled for April 2, will add Remote GameStream as a beta feature. If you have a good enough Nvidia graphics card and upload/download speeds of at least 5 Mbps, you can stream your PC’s entire game library to Shield over the Internet. Nvidia is also adding wake-on-LAN support and remote login for PCs that have entered sleep mode or require a password. I’ve been using a Shield and compatible graphics card on loan from Nvidia for about two months now, streaming games to the handheld over my local Wi-Fi network, and it has profoundly changed my gaming habits. Being able to play high-quality PC games on a handheld device means I don’t have to hog the living room television or isolate myself in my office. That means I can sneak in more gaming sessions than I would have otherwise. While performance isn’t flawless — occasionally I’ll have to go to my PC to deal with some windowing error, or restart streaming to clear up some choppiness — it’s usually good enough to play games at a high level of skill. (Here’s a longer [review of GameStream](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099513/nvidia-shields-gamestream-pc-streaming-is-a-tantalizing-taste-of-the-future.html "undefined") that I wrote for PCWorld last month.) But on the road, Nvidia Shield isn’t as useful. Sure, you can play Android games with it — particularly those that offer controller support — but they’re no replacement for full-blown PC games. I have my doubts about whether GameStream will run smoothly over a remote connection, but then again, I was originally skeptical of Shield’s in-home streaming as well. And even if remote streaming isn’t flawless, it could still be useful for puzzle or strategy games that don’t require precise timing. I’ll be eager to check out remote streaming next week. Nvidia is adding a bunch of other GameStream features as part of the update: * Bluetooth keyboards and mice will be supported when Shield is plugged into a television via HDMI. * Notebook PCs with Nvidia Kepler- and Maxwell-based graphics cards are getting beta support. * You can manually add games to GameStream even if they’re not officially supported. (Previously, you had to access unsupported games through Steam Big Picture mode.) * You can pair multiple PCs to one Shield. * Advanced settings let users adjust bitrates, frames per second and other streaming preferences. * USB Y-cable support will let users charge the Shield with one cable while connecting it to Ethernet with another cable. The Android side of Shield is getting some enhancements as well. A new interface for Nvidia’s TegraZone app will make organization easier, and Nvidia is making some usability improvements to its Gamepad Mapper software, which lets you graft controller support onto touch-based Android games. Nvidia is also updating the Shield to Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Just to sweeten the deal a little more, Nvidia is [cutting the price of Shield](http://store.nvidia.com/buyshield "undefined") to $199 through the end of April, down from $249 previously. It’s still an expensive proposition, especially if you don’t already have the requisite Nvidia graphics card. But it could be a luxury worth having if you’d rather not be tethered to your desk. 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