Mac gaming is no longer in quite the sorry shape it was in the days before Apple started using Intel chips, but game developers clearly still think of it as an afterthought. Truth is, if you really want to play the best new PC games on a Mac, it’s often better just to partition a bit of your hard drive for Windows (through a virtual machine like Parallels) or to stream games from another system. Waiting for a Mac port is like waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish A Song of Ice and Fire. As we shared last year, few streaming apps pull this off quite so neatly as, as the service hosts entire PC games you own on Nvidia’s servers and you simply stream them to your Mac if you have a strong internet connection. Noob Guide: How To Stream From Xbox One to OBS Without A Capture Card Posted on by Frustrated Nerd Leave a comment Live streaming. Let’s set up your Game scene by adding the following 3 Sources: Game; Webcam; Overlay; First, come down to the Scenes section and either right-click to add a scene or click the little plus icon. Name it Game Scene and click OK. Adding a Game Source to OBS. Next, let’s set up your game to be captured by OBS. You don’t need ridiculously priced GPUs, and you don’t even need a proper PC. Unfortunately, it’s still locked behind a that remains tough to get into. If you have an Xbox One, though, you’ve now got a decent alternative for streaming games to your Mac in the form of the new app. For just $10 (regular price $20) and a decent internet connection, you can stream any game from your Xbox One straight to your Mac. I’ve spent a bit of time with it, and while it’s rough in spots, it generally works better than it probably has any right to. Leif Johnson/IDG Alas, here’s the (potentially) bad news. OneCast is a reverse engineer of Microsoft’s own service for Windows PCs, which allows Xbox users to stream their games to a nearby PC through the Xbox app. The idea for Windows users is not so much to let you play Xbox One games on an operating system that developers shun, but to play your Xbox games on a laptop or PC when someone else is hogging the TV to watch Westworld. With OneCast, Mac owners have that same privilege, and it also allows you to play Xbox One games on your MacBook in a more comfortable spot. But there’s no evidence that Microsoft approves of any of this, which means OneCast could vanish tomorrow or a couple of weeks from now if the developers get slapped with a cease-and-desist. That’d be a jerk move, though, especially since OneCast proves this kind of technology can be ported to the Mac fairly easily and with a high degree of quality. For now, though, let’s have fun. Setting it up You can tell the makers of OneCast have an affection for Apple’s philosophy since it’s remarkably easy to set up. Home design software for mac. Once your architecture plan is complete, it's easy to share it. ![]() In essence, getting it to run requires little more than, installing it, making sure your Xbox One and Mac are on the same network, signing into Xbox Live through your Mac, and jumping into streaming. That’s about it. On our network here at Macworld, I had a bit of trouble in that I had to manually had to enter my Xbox’s IP address into a prompt, but even with that extra step setup only took around five minutes. You can even add multiple Xbox Live profiles if you wish. Leif Johnson/IDG The one mishap was that OneCast couldn’t find the Xbox on our network. We simply plugged in the Xbox’s IP address (found through the Xbox’s settings), and it worked fine.
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