However, with the introduction of the Anywhere feature, you are free to choose where you want to enjoy your Steam games. Traditionally, the SteamLink app only allowed you to remotely play on your Android device as long as it was on the same network as your PC. It helped both problems but not as much as I expected or needed.Īny ideas on what I can do now? Where to look next? At my wits end with this.Fresh off Microsoft’s xCloud demo and ahead of Google’s supposed game streaming announcement, Valve updated its SteamLink app to allow uninterrupted gaming experience outside of your home. I used to use 5ghz wfi but the lag and stream quality were awful so I got a 50 ft flat cat 6 ethernet cable to run underneath the trim of the wall from the office to the living room. The input lag got a lot better when I changed to gaming mode on the TV, but it's still not usable for shooters. I'm streaming at 2k now since this doesn't make a difference. The video quality is smooth but with frequent periodic moments of stuttering and frame drops regardless of the stream quality, resolution, or bitrate. Reducing the graphics quality of the game to medium (I can usually run maxed out without any issues on my PC though)

Increasing the amount of memory allocated to the GPU on the Pi to ~0.5 gb Killing Floor 2 is the game I've been using to test my performanceĮnabling hardware decoding on the client side in the steam link settingsĮnabling all forms of hardware encoding on the host side in the steam link settings TV is a 4k hisense 65' with 'game mode' enabled Pi is connected directly to the host with a cat 6 ethernet cable and the host is connected to the internet via wifi, but the Pi is not connected to wifi in anyway Host rig specs are GTX 1080, Ryzen 1800x, 32 gb ram, native 2k resolution, gigabit ethernet controller

The controller is a wired Xbox 360 controller connected to the Pi via USB Just got the steam link app working on my Raspberry Pi 4 and I am having a lot of input lag when trying to play games and I have no idea where it's coming from, and neither do my friends who all have successful steam link setups (all with different ways of doing it though).

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