Submitted 3 weeks ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Steam’s built in game streaming previously hasn’t had the best quality, leaving many people to use other options like Moonlight/Apollo.
Well I saw some people saying that Steam Remote Play streaming is working a lot better now with the new SteamOS update.
Trying it out myself, it really does seem like it’s improved. The whole experience worked very smoothly, and visual quality of the stream is much better than the last time I tried it.
I honestly can’t say I have had any complaints with it since moving to wifi 6, but if this update improves streaming for a chunk of people then that’s a win.
Great because at one point I plan on using a Steam Machine for my racing sim and using it with my Steam Deck hooked to a big screen when playing normal games that the Deck can’t run.
There’s way too much stuff I need to do remotely to limit it to streaming just games or the UI. Back when I suffered windows I used parsec, but moonlight is far superior if you can solve for networking.
I’ll have to try again, it’s been rough the last few times I’ve tried.
Does Remote Play work for non-Steam games running in Steam?
I’ve recently been using it to pipe (windows only) Forza from my PC to my Deck and/or TV via usb-c dock and hdmi
It can for sure. Biggest challenges come from 3rd party app launchers because it chains the application and can “confuse” Steam remote play especially if you make use of the Steam input mapping. If that’s a concern, see if you can launch the game without the separate app launcher (if that’s applies) or just deal with the limitations. This is a few years old knowledge so maybe it’s improved since then but I doubt it.
I’m pretty sure it does
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While we’re in this topic, YSK about Polaris as well, a Linux native headless streaming server which also boasts a handful of great other features.
github.com/papi-ux/polaris
doctorflynt@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
is it possible to have one pc with polaris and multiple players where each has his own game running? Or am i missunderstandig the web ui?
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As per VibeShine and Duo on Windows, yes that’s possible. But Polaris is still on it’s baby steps, so I’d expect some wonk for a while now.
Snoopey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
+1 from me. Polaris has been great! I was really missing Apollo when I switched over but Polaris is even better