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?

  • EntityZero@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I do this OP. I personally find that moonlight / sunshine work significantly better than steam remote play but this could be purely anecdotal. I also have barely noticable latency.

    I work from home and sometimes I just don’t wanna sit at my desk any longer after sitting there all day. I’m in an apartment so I don’t have the luxury yet of having an office that I can decouple from my gaming setup.

    I will say tho, if you can play a game native on your deck do it. But when you wanna crank things to the max, go for the remote play.

    Ive been playing cyberpunk maxed out on a 7950x3d / 4090 streaming to my deck oled and I couldn’t be happier.

    • seanharsh@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I bought the deck for the primary reason of streaming from my rig, but since I travel, having games that run on the deck is great. Also, I get a lot of games through game pass which streams well. Visually, it will look better as you can run the game on the rig on ultra, configure moonlight to stream at 1080p, and it will look awesome on the oled screen. Maybe not 90hz, but good enough for something that small.

    • Theonetheycallgreat@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I will say tho, if you can play a game native on your deck do it. But when you wanna crank things to the max, go for the remote play.

      This is basically my thought process as well. If the game can run well on deck, indie, and platformer games, I’ll run from the deck. If the game is large, 80+gb, or very demanding, AAA, then ill stream it.

    • Spyder638@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve been holding off on Moonlight for my OLED for now, mostly out of laziness. But I’m curious, have they added the ability to stream in HDR for the OLED decks yet?

      • EntityZero@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        No complaints. Maybe the occasional hiccup where its a little bit distorted for a second but its not that common