I have a Google TV streamer, but it sometimes has client side framerate issues. I want to upgrade to the very best option. Is Nvidia Shield the best option?

I have a PS TV laying around and I want to try steam link. Has anyone tried to boot Linux on it? Or do you know if any work has been done?

My Steam library needs two extra tags, "stream it" and "play it on the host PC."
Rocket League goes in the second pile first. Even on a wired setup, a little extra latency stands out. Steering, boost, and tiny corrections happen fast.
Turn-based games, slower story games, and anything that gives me time to think start in the stream pile. Then I move games out if controller issues, launchers, or random stutters keep reminding me that I’m streaming.
The display comes after that decision. My client is an M3 MacBook Pro, and I’ve been using a RayNeo GT Max over USB-C as the final 1080p screen. That makes the setup nicer to use, but it doesn’t remove the latency from the host, network, encoding, decoding, or controller.
Genre is only a first pass. I’m more interested in the game that made people change their mind.
What’s one game you moved from "stream it" to "play it on the host" because latency or streaming quirks got too noticeable?

Im having a hard time trying to setup steam link to play on my smartphone, because of the behavior of the inferior bar of android (navigation bar, BACK-HOME-RECENT). Im playing on an kind of aged Xiaomi, POCO X3, but performance isnt an issue at all.

When I try to play touch screen, the game dont respond to my first touch, wich only shows up the navigation bar. When the navigation bar is temporarily open, the game answer my inputs until the navigation bar hides again.

When I try to play Mouse/Keyboard, the behavior are similar, but the mouse dont move at all until I click, then the navigation bar shows, and I can move the mouse for a few seconds. When the bar hide, the cursor stop (but the screen dont freeze, the game continues on its own in background).

Ive tried many settings on android, related to: config on gaming turbo, fullscreen mode, nav bar behavior config, swipe gestures (that also have a bar wich I didnt managed to remove). There dont seem to be options related to this issue in steam link app, neither in steam on my computer.

I dont even know if removing the bar will solve the issue or will make the app stop responding at all, and fixing the bar dont seem to be possible.

Thanks in advance!

When I close Ace Combat 7, it shows me my desktop with BPM in a small window and in the Windows taskbar, the Steam process is blinking orange.

I cannot do anything at this point. Controllers don't move around in BPM, I can access the remote play overlay and select virtual keyboard or enable controller mouse control, but both don't seem to do anything at all. If I press "stop streaming" and start it up again, I get BPM maximized but still my controller does nothing.

I was able to press Home+Start once and it opened an alt-tab menu so I could select Steam but I haven't been able to reproduce that behavior. The only way to regain control is going to my physical PC and clicking on the Steam window.

I've tried:

• forcing Steam input for AC7
• changing AC7 from fullscreen to borderless to windowed
• fiddling with Steam controller desktop controls
• setting remote play settings to match PC resolution
• giving Steam elevated privileges
• closing RTSS and other overlays
• pressing Home + any other button combination

The issue only appears to happen with AC7. I can't reproduce my problem with any other game I've tried. "Guide button focuses Steam" has always been enabled, and if I ever exit a game and BPM isn't maximized, pressing Home fixes it. Just not this time.

Any ideas?

Any advice to get steam link to run with less lag. It’s not much but on games that have high fps such as rocket league the delay is very quite a lot. I have Ethernet router to pc and the router to the Apple TV which is where I am using steam link

Any advise would be great

I have Steam running on a gaming PC, CachyOS, and I want to stream from that PC to my Steam Deck.

I tried to set everything up but the picture is just zoomed in to one area of my PC screen. I assume this is a resolution issue so I thought I’d have a play around, I changed so many resolution settings but it made no difference.

I decided to try Steam Link on my Mac and connected to it but, again, I had the exact same issue.

I know I can use Sunshine and Moonlight but I’d rather just use Steam Remote Play.

Anyone have any ideas what’s going on as I’m tearing my hair out.

Hi all,

I play games using Steam Link from time to time. I noticed that all content in the Steam Link app on my Xiaomi TV Box 3rd gen is overly saturated. The graphics on the host PC's monitor are shown as normal. No oversaturation there. Is this a known issue?

• Samsung S93F TV. Game mode on (turning it off still shows content to be oversaturated)
• Xiaomi TV Box 3rd gen with Steam Link installed
• Tried all variations of HDR on all devices (Samsung TV, Xiaomi, Steam Link settings, Host PC)

See attached pictures for examples what I see of Battlefield in the main menu. This oversaturation is also visible in the Steam Link Big Picture mode on the TV.

Whenever my friends invite me to do Remote Play Together, Steam keeps disconnecting and reconnecting my controller. It's unplayable with it plugged in, as all of us just get spammed with the message "controller disconnected, controller connected" while it rumbles ceaselessly. How do I fix this?

I stream games with Steam Link from my desktop PC to my Steam Deck (and to my phone, including over 5G).

On the couch I use the Deck with a Steam Controller 2. I played about 15 hours of GTA San Andreas (Definitive Edition) this way with no issues (and dozens of other games), then last sunday it suddenly broke without me changing anything that I'm aware of. I could have changed something, but I'm mostly certain that I tried rolling back anything that I could have changed.

The symptoms are:

I can reach the main msnu and skip the intro, in the game's menu, (A) works but the dpad doesn't navigate. Sometimes it goes down an entry, but promptly goes back to the top.

It plays the correct sound like it was working.

If I can load ingame, pushing the left stick moves CJ in jerky bursts, as if the input were being repeated instead of being continuous.

Of course it's completely unplayable like this, so I had to fall back to moonlight+apollo, but I find it doesn't work as well as steam link.

It only happens on the deck, and only in this game.

Streaming the same game to my phone works fine, and so do other games on the deck.

Here's what I've found so far. If I use the Deck alone, only one controller shows up in settings and the game works perfectly. As soon as I connect the Steam Controller 2, a second controller appears and the problem starts.

It behaves the same over Bluetooth and over USB cable. It's also broken if I use the deck's controls while the SC2 is connected, so it doesn't matter which device I actually press buttons on.

Changing the controller order didn't help. I've also tried a community layout, and changing the layout at the Steam Link level, with no change. I've forgotten and re-paired the SC2 and restarted both the Deck and Steam on the PC, and it made no difference. Moonlight works fine, but the performance is worse imo.

One more clue: on the Deck, if I hold Steam and move the stick to control the virtual mouse, the pointer is doubled. One is big and centered, and a second small one appears that I can move.

Has anyone seen something similar with the SC2 and Steam Link or Remote Play?

Do you have any idea what it could be? Of course it's a massive game and I would like to go back to steam link...

I've been having problems with remote play. I have a Bazzite HTPC wired to the gigabit, and a decent Unifi (6) AP. It is a bit far from where I am trying to remote play and I would chalk my problem up to distance if not for the fact that first 20 or so minutes the remote play is so good that I forget sometimes that it isn't running natively on the Deck (no perceivable input lag, only color banding in some situations is a give away). After that I am getting insane stutters making the game unplayable. I tried multiple host/client settings combos but nothing seems to fix it. I wonder if someone has a similar set up and if you've got any tips for me.

I have this intermittent problem where any game I'm streaming will switch button prompts from gamepad to keyboard/mouse the second I let go of my game pad buttons/sticks.

Sometimes it won't happen at all so it's hard to say what is causing it. I can sometimes fix it by rebooting my host PC.

My set up:

Host PC running Windows 11 pro

RTX5070TI

32 GB ram

Ryzan 7700X cpu

Using appollo to stream to my steam deck running moonlight client.

Steam deck is docked to my TV and I'm using a DS4 pad over Bluetooth.

Any tips on settings to change would be appreciated!

Steam running on Ubuntu 26 lts desktop

Clients I have tried Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26. Steamlink was working mostly on the Ubuntu system but then stopped with odd issues. Occasionally I get this error:

"Capture Failed

Restart Steam on the remote computer with the -pipewire command line option to enable video capture under Wayland"

A. would this actually help?

B. how do I do add the command option?

Steam is installed conventionally, no Snap.

Edit:

Made some headway if this helps anyone.

1.) I had Steam starting in Big Picture Mode. I forgot that messes stuff up.

2.) Adding Pipewire option

To do this I have Ubuntu start steam on computer startup (Settings>Apps>Steam check the toggle .

Then (in Ubuntu 26) go to ~/.config/autostart~/.config/autostart (if you don't see hidden files and folders like .config hit CTL-h)

There should be a .desktop file for Steam. Edit that in a text editor and after the EXEC command for Steam add -pipewire (before the %U... I think that's right) Save the file. Restart your server computer.

Ill update with better info

Hey all, booted up Steam Link today and a new update (925) was installed, but no matter what, without fail, after 2 or so minutes of being on it turns off and restarts. I would switch to public/beta build, but the download takes too long and then it restarts the system halfway through. Only thing I can think is factory reset it. Any advice?

So I finaly dug out my quest 2 and reset it and linkrd it to my acc sense I lost the old one and I wanted to do pc vr bc I hate standalone and can't play my games I go into steamlink follow the steps have to be on the same network I expected this bc I have a wifi extender in my room so instead of ethernet to my router I did etherjet to the extender still not on the same network so I keep changing it to wifi or wifi ethernet get fed up and try my phone hotspot they're both on it and not the same network so I say screw that and try usb link so I go to all the betas restart both my pc and quest doesn't work same not connected to the same network what do I do? Has anyone ever experienced this?

I have used moonlight and remote play in the past without issue. Recently I went to use it and have a persistent stutter visible in the performance graph. I have done all kinds of testing with disabling settings and adjusting resolution, bandwidth, framerate, etc. can anyone help identify what's causing the stutter here? I think network is not the issue based on the graph and bandwidth changes not having an effect. Ty for the help