
Suddenly I had unrestricted access to the installed wonders of my connected test rig. Still the clicking issue persisted, but alt-tabbing out and back into the Steam Big Picture Mode screen-which starts up automatically when Limelight is activated on the RP2-solved it for me. Trying again at a lower resolution, 720p/60Hz, things were suddenly lag-free. Not a great start, but perseverance does pay off.


And even with the mouse pointer moving at my behest-some four seconds behind me-I couldn’t get it to register any clicks, however frantically I tried. And when you try streaming at 1080p/60Hz on the RP2, things go wrong real quick. To start with, I threw up every in-game setting as high as possible and tried to stream at 1080p/60Hz. With a little Linux Fu and some command line experimentation it wasn’t long before I had Limelight installed on the RP2 and connected up to our test rig with an Nvidia card in place. Yes, Limelight is reliant on your host PC being an Nvidia-based machine, but with that in place you can then stream from your desktop rig, across your home network, to an attached Raspberry Pi 2.
