Wife and daughter gave me a Civilization VI game for my birthday a month ago. It won't run on any of my laptops, but will run on the desktop computer with an uncomfortable chair and a crappy monitor.
Sunday night I figured out that I could stream it from the desktop to a laptop (wireless G network) and it worked surprisingly well, and I got the higher resolution of the laptop screen and a comfy chair too. There was no lag, and no stuttering, it was just like playing the game locally on a laptop that could handle it.
Last night I tried it again, to continue the game that I started, and it doesn't work. I can make the connection, then as the game is starting up the sound gets all wonky (imagine music being pixelated to hide the naughty bits) and then the wireless connection drops. From the laptop's perspective, it looks like the wireless router crashed, rebooted, and then has to reconnect. (the router's SSID drops off the available networks screen) I don't know yet if the desktop loses connection, nor if the router is really rebooting.
It worked once, that's the confusing part.
Would running an Ethernet cable to the desktop help? It's not an easy cable run, but I've been thinking about doing that anyway.
ETA: What about running an Ethernet cable from the desktop to the laptop directly w/o going thru the router? About 20 feet. Would that have to be a crossover cable, or can Ethernet adapters handle that themselves now?
