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To address some comments. @Zombeaver: I know that a server is not needed, but it's all that was available to me (other than a chromecast), and I just wanted to see if I could get it to work before I went out and spent some money. I was actually looking at the Steam Link as an option. I'm assuming you would just configure everything on the host PC and just stream Launch Box? @DOS76: I did some searching and had a hard time seeing if the integrated graphics from the Xeon processor supported running emulators. When I attempt to load an emulator like Dolphin it tells me that my CPU only supports OpenGL v1 as opposed to 2 or 3. I've attempted to install various drivers and I haven't had any luck; and like I said in the OP, RetroArch doesn't work at all and I don't know where or what to do to solve it. If you have any light you could shed on this I would seriously appreciate it. I just got this server about a week ago because it was on sale for $279 on Ebay and I haven't worked my way around the differences between a server environment and the vanilla desktop one just yet. I hope to get Hyper-V installed and run various VMs as well as take on various projects. Right now the server is used purely as a Plex Media Server. I know that using the server isn't the best way of doing things, but I was just trying to best utilize the tools available to me and I was hoping to setup an all in one HTPC-type experience while still being able to use the server for other tasks/projects. I know it I made it overly complicated but I'm just getting into tinkering with these sorts of things. Thank you both for all of your suggestions, I think I'm going to look into the Steam Link unless either of you have any other ideas. P.S. If the decoding is indeed client-side then a Steam Link may work out well, I've got: i7 4790k GTX 970x2 16GB DDR3 RAM The only drawback would be WiFi although the tv's are maybe 40 feet from the router.

My server is currently headless; I plan on connecting it to a T.V. if I can get this to work. I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2. The server is this one here. I think if I could get the streaming to work, while not my original plan, it would be ideal since I would also be able to stream any games I have installed on my desktop assuming they have controller support. I'm pretty new to working with servers, so this is a first for me.

Hello, I'm attempting to run LaunchBox and Retro Arch off of my personal home server. This is not an ideal way of doing things but at the moment my options are limited. This has resulted in a very convoluted process to get things up and running. Retro Arch does not run at all on my server, because OpenGL is not supported by my CPU/integrated graphics (I'm guessing). So, to get past this issue I decided to install Steam onto my server and use In-Home streaming to stream Retro Arch to my server. I created a shortcut of Retro Arch on my desktop computer, and transferred it to my server. Since Retro Arch is not installed on my server the link will instead stream Retro Arch through Steam. So I went ahead and installed LaunchBox; and setup Retro Arch (within LaunchBox) to use a batch file that just launches my Steam/stream shortcut since LaunchBox doesn't support .url file extensions, so it's already pretty over-complicated to just get Retro Arch to stream. My ROMs can only be on one system at a time. If I run a game through LaunchBox/BigBox, it launches Retro Arch like it's supposed to, but since Retro Arch is simply streaming, it cannot access the ROM files since they are located on my server. However, if I move the ROM files back to my desktop, then I will lose the nice interface you have created with LaunchBox/BigBox. My solution (or so I thought) was to instead install everything on my desktop, and create a shortcut of BigBox that can be sent over to my server and them streamed via Steam. This, however, does not work. When I execute BigBox (to be streamed from my desktop to my server) it launches BigBox on my desktop instead. So now that I've probably confused whoever is reading this my question is this: Can I run BigBox in a fullscreen/windowed environment, or does anyone know of any possible workarounds I maybe haven't thought of?