Wife was using the Deck, I wanted to play on the couch, I had to get creative
Wife was using the Deck, I wanted to play on the couch, I had to get creative
I love the steam deck, and recently, so does my wife! Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier. And she would find something to play on her switch if I asked for the deck back. But I don't want to stifle this new found love for the deck.
So I decided to get creative. What you're seeing is horizon forbidden West on maximum settings, streaming from my desktop to an over 8 year old Chromebook, with an Xbox controller.
It's honestly pretty good, considering. Every minute or two I get some hitching and stuttering, something to do with the Wi-Fi. Also there's a weird green bar at the bottom I can't seem to remove 🤔 But otherwise it's smooth and clear. Good enough to get me through until we can justify a second Deck 😬
I'm surprised it works at all! But it's steams built in streaming, when the Chromebook steam app 🤷♂️
Edit: in case anyone comes by later and wants to know or could find this useful: the Chromebook is an Acer R13 from 2016, mediatek CPU. My wifi is a 1st gen Google WiFi puck. And the stuttering started turning into zero audio at times.
I bought a random $15 gigabit Ethernet USB C adapter with pass through charging, ran cat 6 tm under my couch to where I sit, and now things run 99.9% smooth. Very pleased. This will hold me over until I can justify another steam deck.
Edit 2: I fixed the green bar by realizing I was an idiot. I never looked at my PC when it was streaming, and it was using my crappy secondary display at 1400x900. This Chromebook is 1920x1080, so it was doing weird things. Moved it to my main display at 1080, and now it looks even better, and no more green bar.
Edit 3: Now I'm using a WiiU gamepad.
Cat tax:
That's not a small pineapple, he's just a big cat.
Clicked because of funky setup
Upvoted because of big cat
True facts
You must be mistaken. You are married so that is your wife's steam deck, so is the 2nd one you are planning to buy. Maybe doing a sexy dance will get you some time with it?
Good enough to get me through until we can justify a second Deck 😬
Do you buy the same game twice, so a second copy for Switch? If yes, subtract the cost of the games off a second Steam Deck with family sharing. That was my justification back then when the Steam Deck was announced and I actually ended up with a number in game prices higher than the cost of the hardware.
Nah, the switch games stay on switch, we don't have much that we play together.
We do share games in a steam family though.
We definitely need another deck. It's on the list to do, when we can. We have zero desire for the new generation of switch. Until there's a new Zelda, at least. I'm not into that but she is.
I've done a bit of streaming from my PC to my deck, and I get occasional but noticeable stutter, which I don't understand, because I can stream Xbox game pass perfectly. 🤔
That's weird. Just yesterday my stream audio started cutting out randomly. Very very annoying. I've fiddled with the settings, but so far no solution but to wait and hope it stabilizes. And if it doesn't? Sometimes it cuts out completely for 5 or 10 seconds? Restart the stream and it comes back.
If this keeps up I'll have to consider the experience a failure.
All my stuttering and audio issues went away when I switched to gigabit LAN, FYI
I experienced the weird green bar recently when streaming to an android tablet with AV1 enabled Worth a look
Turns out it was my resolution settings. I updated the OP to explain, but basically steam was using my crappy low res auxiliary monitor as primary somehow 🤷♂️
Thanks for the tip
I’ve been streaming to my Retroid. It works pretty well! Like having a more powerful Deck in a smaller lighter form factor.
Are you using Moonlight? Considering going for the RP5. I have a 3+, but streaming doesn't work great on it.
Yep. With Sunshine as the server. I’ve been pretty impressed by the performance.