I definately feel the latency on steam link when using remote play. I currently rock a my LCD deck and a wifi 5 router. The question is if I buy an OLED deck and a wifi 6 router will the latency be reduced for remote play?
I definately feel the latency on steam link when using remote play. I currently rock a my LCD deck and a wifi 5 router. The question is if I buy an OLED deck and a wifi 6 router will the latency be reduced for remote play?
Thanks for the reply this is what I was looking for. I live in a single unit house and my pc is connected via Cat6 Ethernet to my high end wifi 5 router which is no more than 5 meters away from where I game with my steam deck or my TV. So basically I would not experience any improvement.
Do you have any explanation as to why there is latency? It is very subtle both on the deck and tv using remote play. When looking at my pc screen when in remote play the controller input is instant (no latency) but on the remote play screen there is that ever so slight delay.
Usually it’s down to the added time of encoding, network transmission and decoding vs the native experience on the PC. As an example, for my Quest 3 testing I was getting roughly 6ms encoding on the host PC, 7ms network latency, and then 13 ms decoding on the Quest 3. Adding it up, that’s 26ms, or basically a frame and a half of latency at the lowest to stream the remote play video to the device you’re playing on. Having your host PC connected via ethernet gives the best performance so it’s great you’ve done that. There could also be slight added input latency as well. They all are ridiculously fast processes but add up together.
Depending on the client doing the streaming and the video codec used, the efficiency can vary wildly too. Moonlight is one of the best ones out there thankfully but it’s impossible to eliminate the latency entirely.