But…but…vAlve doEsNt suPpoRt iTs haRdWare
That’s the thing about Valve. They really know and do software as good as anyone else in the business.
Steam Overlay is laggy and cluttered and unintuitive. Valve does a lot well, but every piece of its software, aside from Proton, is almost hostilely worse than competitors’.
And what are those updates?
Are they adding new features? Patching security? Fix bugs? Or just update their DRM with new encryption codes?
Latest update is 2021. My steamlink updates everytime i power it on, its like the updates are not persisted anymore.
Edit: i was dumb.
Nope. Scroll to the bottom where you’ll see when the page was last edited. Near the end of last year.
Wow , Valve is really an amazing company!!
8 years later and I still haven’t used it once
Every time I’ve tried to use it, I’ve either had to head downstairs to the PC to fix something or had terrible lag and artifacting making it unusable for even turn based games like Xcom…
But I still love that little box. I’ve got two of them and I have Steam Controllers to pair with them but I’ve never had luck with them. Wired, wireless, no luck.
Every time I’ve tried to use it, I’ve either had to head downstairs to the PC to fix something or had terrible lag and artifacting making it unusable for even turn based games like Xcom…
That’s not normal. While Steam Link is a bit older by now and as a result there are constrains like streamed resolution, your problems look more likely connected to your network than Steam Link itself. Digital Foundry talked about PlayStation Portal recently which also includes a two minutes chapter about best practices that apply to other game streaming devices as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEoo_gbOBYo
Have you tried Moonlight? It’s an open source streaming alternative software that you can install on Steam Links, streams using Nvidia’s GeForce Experience as the broadcasting part and Moonlight receives it.
Moonlight was a better alternative a few years ago when I tried it but I just built more computers. I’ve got three towers in the same room at this point, not to mention the Switch and Steam Deck. If I’m ever far enough away from video games to make me consider streaming them, I’m usually too lazy to bother.
Unfortunately the NVIDIA part isn’t open-source. With that said, for what they are, products like Moonlight and Parsec actually are really good.
https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine works for AMD/Intel/Nvidia :-)
