I have a gaming pc with a 4090 in the other room. I never really stream to the deck, but I’m wondering if that’s how I should be playing the games all the time?
Would it make a big difference with the 90hz OLED steam deck?
Streaming over WiFi will not be an enjoyable experience, micro lags, lagging inputs etc.
I have no issues streaming over wired connection though. Steam streaming, chiaki both works well with a wired connection for me.
I have a 4090 and tried streaming Spiderman remastered to the deck sitting right in front of my pc with steam remote play. The input latency was high and the picture quality pretty bad. I’m a total newb to game streaming. Any advice?
Relevant settings: 4090 5800x3d Xfinity xfi router on a 5ghz connection 1200 mbps connection
I’ve got a 4090 rig aswell and set it up for streaming. It’s really good but I don’t like having to configure everything. Can only get better once my OLED arrives for that better WiFi chip and screen
Depends if you pay the electricity bill :)
Have 4090 also. I used it to stream via moonlight (using gamestream) it worked out great on the oled. Plan to stream the heavy hitter games that can’t get me 45+ fps.
I live in a small studio apartment with 2 Amazon Eero mesh routers at a 500mbps download speed.
Streaming with Moonlight off my 3060ti desktop is absolutely incredible. I cannot perceive any latency and only have to deal with very rare hitches. I tested RDR2, Control, and FO76 over the weekend with this setup and I’m shocked at how well it works. The games run at 90fps/high settings with 1440p downscaled to 720p on the Deck. Looks and runs beautiful, especially for RDR2.
The input latency improvements due to the new OLED display are a massive improvement over the LCD and this translates very well for streaming.
I also got Moonlight to talk to Playnite so I can launch Playnite from my Deck and have every single installed game on my desktop PC from any storefront ready to stream within 15 seconds. It also works for streaming emulated games.
My 2 cents, if your internet is good and you are using the Deck at home there is absolutely no reason to not play pretty much everything streamed.
Minor correction: if your intranet is good. Your internet speeds don’t mean anything other than for downloading the games.
Poor networking knowledge here. I have the tplink ax3000 mesh system set up as APs. Is this good enough intranet lol
I’m actually only very surface level knowledgeable with networking. I will say that you have a Wifi 6 router so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t pretty decent.
If you are waiting on a Deck, try the Steam Link app on your phone and just see how it is from PC. If it works great for the phone, bet it works great for the deck!
internet too. i take my steam deck to my friends house and stream my home pc to the deck on a tv stream at 4k 60.
Depends. It’s a decent brand of adult diapers.
I am one of those people who is very sensitive to latency/input lag. There simply isn’t any when streaming from my 4090 hardwired PC. It’s amazing honestly
I really enjoy streaming titles that I don’t need to be immersive. Improved battery life, reduced noise and heat for the deck. The Steam Deck is awesome for getting away from the desk and spending time around family even when we’re doing our own hobbies. I also like it for indies and retro too.
Honestly, I will almost always take streaming over native gaming if it’s an option. Trying to play AAA games on the deck is always a compromised experience, but steaming usually gets a better image and frame rate.
For stuff the deck can handle, I’ll still play locally though.
Streaming performance is kinda shite. It’s better if you use Sunshine to stream from your PC but even with the latency being brought down to almost unnoticeable levels the artifacting is still pretty wicked. It really depends on what you can tolerate and what is or isn’t a deal-breaker to you. To me, personally, I’m so unsatisfied with my deck’s performance that I invested in a nerdy gamer battlestation for my couch and take a minute or two to carry my PC into the living room. But then I can be a stickler when it comes to fidelity and I most definitely am a stickler when it comes to a non-negotiable 60FPS.
Yes, do what you want. I work from home, most times I don’t want to game where I work. So I stream my 3080 to my Deck all the time, plus I like sitting on the couch and not my desk chair. The 4090 will be there when it’s needed for a bigger screen experience.
I use a 100ft fiber optic hdmi cable to hook up my PC to my oled tv, streaming was never quite good enough imo (even locally).
I tried Baulders Gate 3 both natively and streaming from my pc to the deck. I still preferred it on the deck itself (even though the graphics are way lower quality). It’s more of a personal preference.
I’d definitely stream certain games from your PC.
Obviously, of the Deck can get good fps on the highest settings I’d run it natively.
Definitely depends on the game… That’s the only answer.