Nvidia Shield 8 Manual
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Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation 6. Tap OK. Twitch analyzes your network connection to determine the server and the video quality to recommend. When analysis is complete, the results dialog box opens. 7. To close the dialog box without applying the settings, tap OK. To apply the recommended settings, tap Use. How to Change the Twitch Server Typically, a server that is closer to your location provides a faster connection speed. However, if you are experiencing server issues, you might want to connect to a different server. 1. Open Quick Settings. 2. Tap Share. 3. Tap the Record and Share settings icon . 4. In the Record and Share settings control panel, tap Twitch. The Twitch settings control panel opens. 5. Tap the Previous and Next icons to scroll through the available servers. 6. When server that you want is showing, tap Back to return to the Record and Share settings. How to Pause Broadcasting Automatically When You Switch Apps This setting pauses the broadcast when you are switching apps. The broadcast resumes automatically when you are in an app, even if that app is not your game. 1. Open Quick Settings. 2. Tap Shield Menu. 3. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Record and Share settings icon . 4. In the Record and Share settings control panel, tap Twitch. The Twitch settings control panel opens. 5. Tap Pause broadcasting when switching apps. 6. To return to your game, tap Recently Used Apps or Back .
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation GameStream NVIDIA GameStream Experience your library of PC games in the palm of your hands or on your big screen TV. Either with game-speed Wi-Fi with ultra-low latency or a wired Ethernet connection, GAMESTREAM officially supports over 200 of the best PC games, including awesome games like Batman: Arkham Origins, Titanfall, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. SHIELD gives you the power to access your GeForce® GTX-powered computer from the comfort of your couch. Play your favorite PC games on a full-size controller with ultra-low latency thanks to SHIELD s game-speed Wi-Fi and the fast performance of GeForce GTX GPUs. Use a SHIELD Controller or mouse and keyboard to play almost any game on a big screen TV with Console Mode. Enjoy full optimization for game speed WiFi with ultra-low latency, using any of our recommended routers. Experience visual performance with 1080p at up to 60 frames per second on SHIELD tablets 8 HD multi-touch LCD display or take advantage of 1080p streaming to your HDTV. Console Mode ready - experience your favorite PC games on the big screen NVIDIA GameStream Experience your library of PC games in the palm of your hands or on your big screen TV. Either with game-speed Wi-Fi with ultra-low latency or a wired Ethernet connection, GAMESTREAM officially supports over 200 of the best PC games, including awesome games like Batman: Arkham Origins, Titanfall, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. SHIELD gives you the power to access your GeForce® GTX-powered computer from the comfort of your couch. Play your favorite PC games on a full-size controller with ultra-low latency thanks to SHIELD s game-speed Wi-Fi and the fast performance of GeForce GTX GPUs. Use a SHIELD Controller or mouse and keyboard to play almost any game on a big screen TV with Console Mode. Enjoy full optimization for game speed WiFi with ultra-low latency, using any of our recommended routers. Experience visual performance with 1080p at up to 60 frames per second on SHIELD tablets 8 HD multi-touch LCD display or take advantage of 1080p streaming to your HDTV.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Console Mode ready - experience your favorite PC games on the big screen How GameStream Works NVIDIA uses the H.264 encoder built into GeForce GTX 650 or higher desktop GPUs along with an efficient wireless streaming software protocol integrated into GeForce Experience to stream games from the PC to SHIELD over the user’s home Wi-Fi network with ultra-low latency. Gamers can then use SHIELD controller + SHIELD as the controller and display for their favorite PC games that are supported for GameStream, as well as for Steam Big Picture. In addition to streaming the game, NVIDIA also configures PC games for streaming using GeForce Experience to deliver a seamless out-of-the-box experience. There are three key activities involved here: Generating optimal game settings for streaming games from the PC to SHIELD . We use our GeForce Experience servers to determine the best quality settings based on the user’s CPU and GPU, and target higher frame rates than ‘normal’ optimal settings to ensure the lowest latency gaming experience. These settings are automatically applied when the PC game is launched so gamers don’t have to worry about configuring these settings themselves. Enabling controller support in games. This avoids gamers having to manually configure controller support in the game – it ‘just works’ out of the box. Optimizing the game launch process. This is important so that gamers can get into the game as quickly and seamlessly as possible, without hitting launchers or other two foot UI interactions that can be difficult to interface with a controller. How to Configure GameStream PC How to Configure GameStream PC Setting Up Your PC 1. Install the latest GeForce display driver available at http://www.geforce.com/drivers. This will automatically install GeForce Experience as well. 2. Launch GeForce Experience. 3. Click Scan for games.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation 4. On the My Rig tab in GeForce Experience, confirm that your PC meets the hardware requirements for game streaming. 5. Log in to GeForce Experience using the Log in button on the top right corner. 6. A new window appears, giving you two choices: log in with a new NVIDIA account that you can create from the window, or log in with your Google account. Log in with the same account you use on your SHIELD. 7. Press the SHIELD button to launch SHIELD Hub and select the PC GAMES tab. 8. Log in using the same credentials you use for GeForce Experience. A list of supported PC games that are available to stream from your PC displays on the screen. Using On-screen Controls On-screen controls allow users to interact with game dialogs to make GameStream a better experience on SHIELD. To access GameStream on-screen controls, use a two-finger tap or long-press the Start button. The on-screen controls will bring up a menu screen with three options: Keyboard, Quit, and three-dot menu.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation If you need to input information into a dialog, use the Keyboard selection. If you want to quit the game, select Quit game. Most of the touch navigation options are straightforward. Clicking three-dot menu > Help will display the full list of available touch interactions. GameStream System Requirements The basic requirements are a Wi-Fi router and a modern gaming PC with a GeForce GTX 650 or higher desktop GPU. The detailed requirements are: GPU: Desktop: GeForce GTX 650 or higher Notebook: GeForce GTX 800M, GTX 700M, and select (Kepler-based) GTX 600M GPUs CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz or higher System Memory: 4GB or higher OS: Windows 8 or Windows 7 Software: Latest GeForce Display Drivers (www.geforce.com) Latest version of GeForce Experience (Installed with Driver) Routers: 802.11a/g router (minimum). 802.11n 5 GHz router (recommended). PC Games Supported by GameStream Go to http://shield.nvidia.com/pc-game-list/ to find the latest list of games that provide the best experience for PC game streaming. New games are added frequently.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Streaming non-GameStream Ready Games NVIDIA officially supports GameStream for over 200 games, but GeForce Experience allows users to manually add and stream nearly any game. Manage your list of manually added games in GeForce Experience under the GameStream section of the Preferences tab in GeForce Experience. 1. Open GeForce Experience and navigate to the Preferences tab and select GameStream from the menu on the left. You will see the following menu that will allow you to add any application to the SHIELD GameStream section of the SHIELD Hub app on your SHIELD . 2. Drag and drop a shortcut to your favorite game or click on the sign to search your PC for the .exe of the application you would like to add to the GameStream list on SHIELD . 3. You can then click the icon to edit the name and box art of the applications in your list. 4. Once you have added applications into the list, they will appear on your SHIELD s GameStream list and can be launched just like any other app. Note that NVIDIA does not configure optimal settings for manually added games, so you may need to adjust in-game settings manually for the best experience. TIP You can even use this feature to stream your entire PC desktop. To do so, add a shortcut to Windows’ Remote Desktop Connection app (c:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe) in GeForce Experience, then select the newly added Remote Desktop tile from SHIELD ’s "PC GAMES" tab. From here, you have access to your entire desktop. Tips for Interacting with Unsupported Games SHIELD is a touch screen device that uses mouse emulation for streaming. Any time the user is in a situation where using the mouse would bypass a menu or in-game option that the controller will not operate, simply use the touch screen as the mouse. SHIELD has a full virtual keyboard built into the touch screen interface. As with the mouse, if there is a situation that requires a keyboard instead of the controller, use the virtual keyboard by tapping two fingers on the touch screen and tapping the keyboard icon that appears. While Streaming a PC game, you can use the Pinch to Zoom and Pan functions to better navigate menus or other in game elements that are hard to see. Simply pinch or expand with two fingers to zoom and use a two finger swipe to pan around while zoomed. Remote GameStream GameStream allows you to stream games from your PC to your SHIELD outside of your local WiFi network. Simply log into GeForce Experience and SHIELD Hub using the same NVIDIA account and take your SHIELD with you on the go. NOTE NVIDIA recommends Internet bandwidth of 10 Mbps from your PC down to SHIELD and 2 Mbps from SHIELD up to your PC. Your streaming experience may vary depending on the quality of your Internet.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation NOTE Remote GameStream can be optimized by manually lowering your streaming bitrate for Wi-Fi . Doing this will reduce your image quality but may improve overall quality of service. Adjust the bitrate manually to find the sweet spot for your configuration. You can do this by accessing the Advanced GameStream menu in SHIELD Hub. Please refer to the Advanced GameStream Features section of this guide for more information. If Remote GameStream does not work even after you have signed into GeForce Experience and Shield Hub, you may need to forward the following ports: UDP: 47998, 4800, 47999, 48010 If Remote GameStream works, but Wake on LAN does not, try setting up port forwarding for UDP port 47998. NOTE If you still have issues connecting to your PC directly, make sure your PC has Network discovery enabled. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change advanced sharing settings and select ‘Turn on network discovery.' Wake on LAN / Remote Log-In Wake on LAN is a feature that will allow you to wake up your PC on your local network when you want to use GameStream on SHIELD . You no longer need to wake your PC and log-in manually to be able to stream your favorite games. To use Wake on LAN and Remote Log-In: 1. Press the SHIELD button to open the SHIELD Hub and navigate to the PC GAMES tab to view the games installed on your paired PCs. 2. When you select a game that you want to launch and start streaming, you will be notified that your PC is asleep and will be woken up. 3. Select Continue to wake the PC and launch the game. If your PC has a Windows password, you will be taken to the login screen where you can enter your password remotely. Use the two finger menu to bring up the virtual keyboard to enter your password. Once you have entered your password, your PC will launch the selected application and begin streaming. There are several important setup requirements for Wake on LAN: 1. Your motherboard and network adapter must both support Wake on LAN. Depending on the configuration, you may need to ensure that Wake on LAN is enabled in your motherboard BIOS, that Wake on Magic Packet is enabled in Windows and that Ethernet Adapter is properly configured for Wake on LAN support. Depending on your PC and OS, you may need to make sure your PC only wakes up from magic packets, otherwise your PC may wake up inadvertently. Go to Device Manager > Network adapters > [Your Ethernet adapter, ex. Intel] > Power Management and check the option ‘Wake on Magic Packet.’ In Device Manager > Network adapters > Advanced, enable Wake on Magic Packet. 2. Your PC must be connected to your router via Ethernet. 3. Your PC must be powered on and in sleep or hibernate mode. Wake on LAN is not supported for PCs that are shut down. 4. To wake up your PC while outside your Local Area Network, you may need to manually open ports depending on your router. See Remote GameStream for more details.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Advanced GameStream Features In SHIELD Hub under “SETTINGS” you can access some of the advanced features available to fine tune your GameStream experience. To access these features, make sure you already have a PC connected. In the advanced settings menu, you can manually adjust streaming bit rates, frame rates and elect not to apply Optimal Settings for each game in your streaming list. This provides more control to the user to fine tune your streaming experience. 1. Open SHIELD Hub and navigate to the settings menus in the lower left hand corner. 2. Once in the settings menu, you can access the GameStream-ready PCs menu. 3. Here you can see all of the different PCs you have connected to your SHIELD and their current status. Select accessory settings . 4. In the accessory settings menu you can select “Quality” to manually change the bitrate at which your stream is delivered both from a Wi-Fi connection and from a wired Ethernet connection. You can also change the target frame rate that the SHIELD will deliver. This provides a lot of flexibility to the power user in how they stream. 5. Also in the accessory settings menu is the Optimize games menu where you can manually disable Optimal Settings for a particular game. This allows the user to disable the automatic settings we apply to allow you to tailor specific in-game settings for each game. You can also globally disable or enable Optimal Settings for a particular PC that you have connected to your SHIELD. Steam Big Picture Big Picture shows up as a selection in the list of SHIELD-optimized games. Launching it gives you access to your STEAM games–both supported and unsupported–plus the STEAM Store and all the STEAM community features. Supported games are recommended for the best, optimized streaming experience–the latest list of supported games can be found on http://shield.nvidia.com/pc-game-list/ starting at launch. Unsupported games may work if they have native controller support or you have connected a mouse and keyboard, but will not be optimized for streaming and may have other streaming compatibility issues. Troubleshooting PC Game Streaming If you are experiencing issues with streaming games from your PC to SHIELD , try these troubleshooting options: General Troubleshooting Issues Not all games have been optimized for PC game streaming to SHIELD. Verify the game you are trying to play is on the list of supported games. It is also recommended that you launch the game at least once on your PC BEFORE launching on SHIELD . Doing this ensure that all of the prerequisites (VC Redirects, DirectX, et al) and the set-up of all DRM features (Games for Windows et al) are completed. Make sure your PC meets the minimum requirements for streaming. The requirements for PC Game streaming are very specific. Make sure your GeForce GTX PC meets these requirements and that you have proper drivers and software. See the list of system requirements or go to the My Rig tab in GeForce Experience to confirm that your PC meets the system requirements.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Check Windows and wireless router firewall settings. Make sure that streaming is not being blocked by a firewall; either from the computer or wireless router. You can either temporarily disable the firewall or add an exception to allow the traffic. You can access Windows Firewall settings through the Control Panel on your PC. For information on other software firewalls or firewalls built into your router, refer to those products manufacturers. Check SHIELD Wi-Fi setting. Make sure that the Wi-Fi setting on your SHIELD is turned ON (go to Settings > Wi-Fi). Check to make sure SHIELD has successfully connected to the network. Try resetting the Wi-Fi option by turning it OFF and then back ON. Try resetting your wireless access point connection by disconnecting and re-connecting. Check the internet connection. Check whether or not you are able to access the Internet on SHIELD and the PC. Try resetting your wireless access point connection if you cannot connect. Specific Troubleshooting Issues If SHIELD displays No available GeForce GTX PCs found, when scanning for available PCs, try the following: Does the PC meet the minimum System Requirements? Are your firewall interfering or disabling the connection? Is your PC powered on? Are you logged in to your PC? If any of these checks did not fix the issue, try rebooting both SHIELD and your PC, and logging out and logging back into SHIELD Hub and GeForce Experience. Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse Support There are many Bluetooth keyboards and mice that are available in the marketplace. The SHIELD tablet K1 is an Android-powered device and pairs natively with peripherals that are Bluetooth enabled without a required USB dongle. NVIDIA has tested the following Bluetooth keyboards and mice and found that they are compatible with the SHIELD tablet K1 : Logitech K810 Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard Motorola Wireless Keyboard Logitech Tablet Keyboard Anker Ultra Slim Mini Bluetooth Keyboard Razer Orochi Mobile PC Gaming Mouse Gigabyte GM-M7700B Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse HP X4000b Bluetooth Mouse A lap desk can be used to make gaming in front of a big screen TV easier when using a keyboard and mouse. The following lap desks are a few recommended solutions: LapGear 45492 Deluxe Computer LapDesk LapWorks Original Laptop Desk LapWorks Futura Gamers LapDesk LapGear 45303 Multi-Purpose Jumbo LapDesk Using GameStream in Console Mode Console mode can be launched using the application icon or by connecting a Mini-HDMI cable to SHIELD .