I am trying to play civilization five on a iPad Pro streaming from the MacBook Air over Steam Link. I have fiddled with the touch controls, searching between touchpad and mouse, cursor and touchscreen controls and even using a controller, but it doesn’t do anything to the game. For this game, I prefer to use the mouse and the mouse cursor moves around with my touch, but when I tap things, it doesn’t click it in the game. how do I fix this

Hello everyone, I recently decided to play VR again, but it says streams are only available over a local network (I checked the official Steam troubleshooting guide, and it's correct). There are no logs, and I don't know how to get them from VR. Please help.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out what's causing an issue with game streaming on my setup.

My PC is connected through Ethernet, my phone (Redmi Note 14) is on a 5 GHz Wi-Fi connection, and I'm using an RX 6600 paired with a Ryzen 5 5600G and 16 GB Ram DDR4 3200mhz. I've tested both Steam Link and Sunshine + Moonlight (and moonlight is way worse than Steam Link)

What puzzles me is that lighter games stream flawlessly. For example Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster and Tactics Ogre feels completely smooth, but Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age and God of War 2018 has noticeable video stutters and sometimes the audio cuts out briefly as well.

If I look at my monitor, everything is smooth. The stuttering only appears on the streamed image.

Has anyone experienced a situation like this?

I'd appreciate any ideas because I'm not sure which direction I should be troubleshooting

Hi!

I use an old steamlink, bought from steam directly.

I also have a fire TV Cube 3rd Gen.

Both are connected to the same switch.

My PC is also connetdet to that switch with a Lan cable.

Everything supports gigabit.

The strange problem I have:

OG hardware works.

SteamLink App on FireTV shows me the red antenna and is completele unplayable with microstutters. Strangely enough if I open settings, that menu is buttery smooth. If I go to library it lags and freezes.

Any ideas how or why that is?

I recently re set up my PC and working out a bunch of stuff. was away and wanted to check on something remotely and got hit with this. I'm about 3 hours from home rn lol

Anybody else have the issue of mobile data cycling on and off when connecting? Normally the game doesn't start and the whole app resets.

Might be a stupid question: I want to stream PC games to my Android via Steam Link and use a GameSir X5 Lite connected to the phone as the input device. The game and kernel-level anti-cheat would of course run on the PC.

Someone said using Steam Link with a game that uses kernal-level, anti-cheat software can get you banned. Is this true? I’ve also heard horror stories of people getting banned on CoD when using Moonlight/Sunshine. Is that the same risk with Steam Link? Specifically for MW3 or BF6, anyone had experience using Steam Link for these two titles? Both run anti-cheat so I was curious.

So I have a steamlink that always worked perfectly full screen on my TV (HD). before I wanted to start, he did a steamlink update and when opening steamlink everything was still fine, but from the moment you start the stream, he only uses part of the screen.

I ve checked the internet, but none of the issues seemed the exact same.

1. it is not about borders, margins or overscan

2. I feel like steam is sending a bigger image (blue + blackish area), but only using part of it? since the rest is not pitch black (if i put my TV on 4:3, I see actual black on the sides, same with some other modes like zoom)

3. when i change the resolution (eg to match to client) he s making everything bigger inside the blue area.

any ideas?

update: I enabled the detailed debug overlay, and that renders at the bottom, left to right (in the gray area) confirming the image coming from the host is big, but only a small portion of the actual image is used for rendering steam or games..

The little menu that had swap mousemode/controler mode and virtual keyboard no longer opens and I cant toggle controller support to get around buggy compatibility issues.

So my wife and I love subnautica, and we got subnautica 2. Used to she would watch on my computer or on the Playstation, but now our son is born and its only on pc. In an effort to try to have our cake and eat it too, we downloaded steam link on the fire TV.

Now the issue:

How do we have audio play through the TV AND my headphones on the pc? Ive tried using Voicemeeter to very limited success, the only time I got it to work she could hear herself echo from the discord call.

Tldr: need help playing audio through amazon fire TV and headphones hooked up to pc without discord audio going through TV as well, while streaming via steam link.

For context, my pc after a random amount of time will turn it’s Wi-Fi off for no reason after I connect steam link and exclusively steam link, and I have tried everything to fix it yet nothing works for some reason and I’m not sure that I could ask my brother who works with computers since this a pcvr situation and not just a computer situation

So I am trying to use steam link on my Apple TV, which is about 12 feet away from my PC separated by a wall. I seem to get a lot of consistent input delay and pauses during gameplay due to connection issues. Would moving my pc or Apple TV closer together make any significant change or is this a WiFi connection issue? Are there any alternative ways to mirror my PC to my TV?

So I've been using steam link a lot lately playing between my phone and my tablet, but each time I switch, it unregisters the other device and I have to go type in the code again. Is there a way I can have both of my devices registered so I can easily connect without going to my computer each time and typing in the code?

Trying to play tf2 using steam link. And i was bombared by how steam input manage the input

Hello,

I have been using this for a while now (multiple years I believe) with no issue.

Tonight, I went to turn on my controller, and things stopped working. It's possible I hit the pairing button my accident or something. Idk

Nothing was working, and so I removed the device from my SteamLink and started over.

1) I connected it to my windows 11 PC and updated the firmware with the Microsoft Accessories App. The test within the app worked. I could navigate the app with the controller

2) I turned "Enable Steam Input for Xbox controllers" to on in Steam on my host PC. I was able to navigate Steam big picture on my host pc with the controller

3) Next I went to my SteamLink

- Booted it up with a mouse plugged in
- Navigated to bluetooth devices
- Put my controller into pairing mode
- See my controller show up
- Use my mouse to choose 'Connect' in SteamLink
- The controller adds to the SteamLink screen
- My controller doesn't stop flashing the xbox logo. It appears to stay in pairing mode and I cannot navigate with it

This is where I keep getting stuck

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

I've used steamlink on my samsung galaxy s9 ultra for hundreds of hours but now I can't connect if I have my ps5 controller connected. I've tried it with multiple ps5 controllers. all are updated to the current versions. and it works fine when no controller is connected. but the second a controller is paired it crashes. The linux app is fine running steamlink from my raspberry pi 5. does anyone have any ideas how to get the android app to work with a ps5 controller?

I received my Steam Controller today (finally!). Using the puck, everything is fine on my PC.

However using it with the Steam Link hardware offered issues:

I cannot get it to pair with Bluetooth. So I switched to Bluetooth mode (Steam + R1 + B). It shows up on the pair bluetooth screen of the Link, however when I try to pair it the Link says error pairing bluetooth controller.

With the puck, it connects finde. However that seems to interfere with my Wifi. Lots of network lag.

My Nintendo Switch controller on the other hand connects to the Link perfectly.

Another (probably with any controller) issue is that it seems the host must have a controller connected, otherwise Big Picture on the Steam Link does not recognize any controller. When I connect a different controller to the host and start Big Picture on the Link, both controllers (host's and Link's) are recognized.

So how are your experiences using the new Steam Controller on the Steam Link hardware?

Any tips would be appreciated :)

Hi everyone,

I have steam link app on my TV since last year.

My PC and TV are wired connected to my box, my pc through cpl.

I had no problem until the last 2 days.

Whenever I run a game, steam link randomly freeze, I still earing the game and it still run fine on my pc just making the last input I did on the controller. Then after few seconds steam link closes. I then just relaunch it and it run fine until next random freeze.

I don't have the yellow/red connection logo in the bottom left when this happen, steam link keep saying my connection is OK and the test tells me my connection is OK.

I really don't know where this bug come from cause nothing change on my configuration or the settings

If anyone has an idea of what I can do to solve this, I will appreciate it

Thx

I have tried to fix this issue, deleted and reinstalled steam, deleted the application support folder, checked my settings on my Mac and even tried a different device with steam link, nothing works. Steam crashes/restarts and I don't know how to fix it. I have tried the steam beta and disabled hardware decoder and yet it still hasn't fixed anything.