using steam link to broadcast fgu into android tablet from an old laptop

[Tempered7]

Heya coding wizards.

Once again im in a stoopid situation that requires out of the box thinking with your tech expertise.

Considering zero access to any pc,

if i used steam link in an ancient win 8.1 laptop to broadcast fgu into a cheap android tablet,
Could i run fgu in the tablet?

Maybe with a bluetooth mouse & keyboard. Or would fgu Respond to the touch screen?

Thanks in advance.

[Moon Wizard]

FGU only officially supports Windows 11; and while it may work on most Windows 10 machines, I'm not sure about anything older than that or when Unity game engine might not allow it to run at all in future builds. So, you'd have to test whether it would even run on Windows 8; with the caveat that it could just stop working with any future updates due to underlying game engine support going away.

I haven't used Steam Link before; so someone else would have to chime in about that.

Regards,
JPG

[Tempered7]

This will likely wont work then.
I tried ubuntu virtual machine in the tablet before this, it didnt work either.

Dang, I might not have a chance to use fgu or any other win11 programs for years.

One last question. Does fgu work in win11 tablets?

[Moon Wizard]

It's built for x64 architecture Windows; so I assume not but not sure. Depends on the tablet architecture and how it runs Windows apps built for x64.

Regards,
JPG

[kronovan]

...f i used steam link in an ancient win 8.1 laptop to broadcast fgu into a cheap android tablet,
Could i run fgu in the tablet?

Maybe with a bluetooth mouse & keyboard. Or would fgu Respond to the touch screen?

Thanks in advance.

I see 2 possible problems with this.

1) Steam Link now only officially supports Windows 10 and 11.
2) the Fantasy Ground Unity app is not a fully Steam supported app. FGU runs independently of the Steam Client. Even if you bought or downloaded FGU from Steam, the Steam Client doen't need to be running in order to launch the FGU app.

I'm not familiar enough with Steam Link to know if it can work with a "Non-Steam Game", such as you'd have if you accessed 'Library' > 'Games' > 'Add a Non-Steam Game to my Library.' If it won't, then it certainly wouldn't expect it to work with the FGU app.

[Tempered7]

Yeah krono, everthing leads me to buy a new win11 laptop as nothing else will work. Thanks anyway for the info.

[Speculi]

If the Laptop is not required to run Windows for some other reason, you could try to run Linux on it and run Fantasy Grounds there (plus try to use Steam Link, but why not directly use the laptop if it can run it well enough to stream it?).
FG will have usability issues without mouse/keyboard. It requires keyboard inputs and two mouse buttons for many actions.

[Griogre]

In the past I used a "gaming" chromebook to run FG VTT. You run the beta Steam app for chromebooks and then run FG VTT from the Steam app. The limitation I found was you can't get FG files out of the setup because of the virtual environment the steam app set up to run. It worked fine for solo play and would work for about 2-3 hours with players before it crashed. I think the crash was due to the virtualization running out of memory.

If you have access to a chromebook you might try that instead of a Steam Deck.

I currently run FG Classic fine through Steam, so I suspect it would also work fine on the chromebook though I don't think I've actually tried it. Since FG Classic is frozen in development time it would also still run fine on a Win8 machine.

[Tempered7]

Hmm thank you both for the ideas.

2 things to try then.

1. Use the old laptop to run linux ubuntu (dual boot) to run fgu.
2. FG classic in Win 8.1

[Tempered7]

Took 2 painful days but I finally installed ubuntu on the laptop and run FGU successfuly.
Only problem is, when I open any maps, entire OS crashes.
Steam link also works, it has its own touch screen compatibility but the machine cant run 2 things at once.

So I wont be able to play for a while but at least I can finish the new combat guide minus the pics.

[Incrediclint]

Try using Moonlight + Sunshine instead of steam link. Sunshine runs as the server on your PC. Moonlight is the client available for all platforms. Performance is far better than steam link. It's intended for game streaming but I use it as a remote desktop as well.