When things go wrong in windows and say a game freezes and no input appears to be doing anything press and hold android play button on shield controller which will bring up an overlay which gives access to android mouse and android osk which can interact with windows as well as be used to quit streaming session. Steam Input can be used to make Shield Controller work on windows desktop and (almost) all other windows applications and add many capabilities and huge configurability to Shield Controller This should enable you to stream windows desktop to Shield TV and use all windows apps that support controller with Shield Controller wirelessly. On PC, start GFE and enable gamestream and add mstsc.exe to list of gamestream apps.įrom Nvidia Games Hub on Shield TV launch mstsc.exe. On Shield TV pair your controller and use Input Viewer to confirm everything is working like expected there.
NVIDIA SHIELD CONTROLLER 2017 PC MOD
Looking for content - send us a mod mail if you have something that should be added.įirst remove cable from Shield Controller, reboot Shield TV and also reboot PC.
(You can also email with a follow up or more detail) Samsung SmartThings hub support (using a dongle) is coming. It's also compatible with the GeForce Now game streaming, a service from NVIDIA costing $7.99 per month. Many android apps can be successfully sideloaded if not available on the store. The Shield Android TV supports Youtube, Netflix, Google Assistant, Plex, Kodi (or the optimized SPMC) and many other Android video-streaming apps and games. The 2017 editions come with an always listening games controller that offers Google Assistant support. It comes in two versions - a 16 GB version for $199/£199 and a 500GB version for $299/£299. The NVIDIA Shield Android TV is a high-powered Android TV device, featuring a Tegra X1 and 3GB of RAM (source).