This is our biggest update since launching Bigscreen Beta in March '16. This has HUGE improvements and new features that you've been asking for over the past year.
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Watch our lolzy Cinema Update trailer, and here's full release notes:
New huge Cinema environment
- Huge 100-foot screen
- Hyper-realistic dynamic lighting. The screen shines light onto the walls and seats, and the room becomes very dark - pitch black - if the screen is black
- 40 AI bots (NPCs) make the Cinema feel lively, as if you're in a real theater with a bunch of people
Massive performance improvements
You will see significantly reduced CPU, GPU and RAM usage in both Singleplayer and Multiplayer. We aren't done yet, even more performance improvements are planned in the future
Flawless 1080p 30fps desktop streaming
In Bigscreen Multiplayer, you can see each other's desktop screens (basically screen sharing). Previously, it would use a ton of CPU and might only be 2fps.
We wrote a new streaming engine that can easily stream flawless 1080p 30fps. It's still peer-to-peer, private, and encrypted. Your data/desktop does not stream through our servers, it only goes directly to the people in your Multiplayer room.
Native desktop audio streaming
- natively integrated into Bigscreen, no additional software required. just plug in a pair of headphones or a speaker, and select it in Settings>Audio as your "Desktop Audio Mirroring device". you'll hear sound in both your headset and on this mirror device
- the desktop audio stream is now streaming in stereo (previously mono) and at a higher quality (increased bitrate)
Experimental support for Windows 7 & "VR Ready" Nvidia Optimus laptops
Performance will not be as good as Windows 8/10 PCs. This is our first experimental release. Please test it and give us feedback. We plan to improve this even further in upcoming updates.
What's next?
- Even more performance improvements to CPU & GPU usage
- More environments
- Even higher quality desktop streaming options
- Positional desktop audio streaming
- Movie nights, game nights, and more Community Events
Join 1000 members on the Bigscreen Community chat server on Discord It's a great way to provide feedback, bug reports, chat with devs, and participate in events we host.
If you love us, leave us a review! If you have any problems or bugs, please email us, or post here on the Steam Forums.
And thanks to over 1000 alpha testers that really helped make this Bigscreen Cinema Update more stable. You helped us fix so many bugs and crashes.