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Erica @erica11/19/2023, 12:50 AM

i setup the steam deck w/ dock on the living room TV to stream games off it from my PC so i could go through IGF stuff (i'm a judge for the first time this year!) but the streaming latency was miserable-to-unplayable so i installed the games on the SD itself instead where they render at 720p on my very big and nice OLED so now i'm instead sitting at my desk in my not-comfortable-to-relax-in chair instead :/

like so far the only thing that's really worked to stream into the living room has been Moonlight + GeForce but thats a) going away b) i don't want to setup Sunshine or whatever its called because it's not simple to do and c) even while the former still works it's still jank enough that i hate dealing with it

#steam deck #Moonlight Streaming

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doty @doty11/19/2023, 1:24 AM

FWIW I have had OK luck with the steam link hardware. It is, alas, no longer supported officially but they haven’t changed the underlying technology so it’s still working with the newest steam releases…. I’m pretty happy in general.

Jovi @JoviniusMaximus11/19/2023, 4:28 AM

Damn, I was hoping that would have been better out of the box. I'm waiting for my OLED deck to arrive, with my half useless shield now basically just a YouTube box connected to the living room. Trying out the sun/moon combo is on my to do list but it just seems so fiddly.

Callum @callums-face11/19/2023, 5:48 AM

Is this with ethernet connection as well? I'm looking at setting something remote up, but getting ethernet to my TV and PC is going to be a mammoth task, and I'm paranoid it still won't do the job

Erica @erica11/19/2023, 6:26 AM

no it's on wifi, there's no world where i run an ethernet cable across the house just for that

Hex @Hex11/19/2023, 9:04 AM

Ethernet Sunshine is effectively flawless but it's not an effortless setup initially (although the documentation for Sunshine makes it way more intimidating than it needs to be). I had -ok- luck running it over power line adapters but that's going to depend a lot on your electrical wiring setup, interference etc.
If youre at the limits of your router's 5Ghz range you might have better luck if you split it into 5 and 2.4 (usually a setting, but annoying for other reasosn) and use the dedicated 2.4Ghz channel as it will have a longer range and potentially be more stable.
Hope that's helpful and not obnoxious.

Erica @erica11/19/2023, 7:15 PM

Powerline adapters is a no-go in this household we discovered :( We tried and we get like 1/10th the speed we do over wi-fi but it's an old house so I'm not surprised.

I ended up installing Sunshine this morning to less effort than I last did and it works pretty well, although the framerate is occasionally choppier than I'd like. I'll give it a few different tries on different network setups but hopefully this ends up being a better solution !