redfox29 wrote:
Callin' wrote:
waupaca11 wrote:
I used my MacBook for years with TR and Zwift, HDMI/ Thunderport to my big screen. This Spring I bought a Steam Machine on sale from GameStop for $275 and mounted it under the TV. Put a 250GB SSD in it and fresh Windows 10, Zwift and popped in my mini Garmin ANT+ and away I went. Oh, got a great Logitech BT wireless keyboard and a built in touchpad. Works pretty slick.
I'm curious, what model steam machine and how smoothly does it run Zwift?
I'd say any steam machine will run Zwift with 0 issues. I currently run Zwift off my Surface Pro 3 with a core i5 and the integrated GPU and I've never had a problem.
This. Steam machines are designed for 3D graphics gaming. Any of them will run Zwift.
I also run Zwift on Surface Pro 3 with i5 and integrated Intel graphics. It works fine. Suspect that Zwift reduces the graphics details* or resolution or both, on slower machines but that hardly matters for our workouts.
*I have a home-made gaming computer that runs circles around anything you can buy. But that's in the home office plumbed into two monitors and a joystick and 5.1 surround sound and keyboard/mouse. No way I'm undoing all that to take the machine to the garage to see if Zwift looks/works better. MS Surface runs Zwift more than adequately.