Does anyone know if Steam remote play /Steam Link App streaming will work with HDR on the Steamdeck OLED? I’ve noticed on occasion when I would have HDR enabled on my Windows 11 PC prior to initiating the Steam Link stream the colours would look off as the HDR image was being sent to a non-hdr scree of the LCD Steamdeck. Would that mean that it would work normally now?
A couple things for everyone in this thread:
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Steam Remote Play for HDR games probably doesn’t work yet. I know that using the Deck as the host definitely doesn’t stream HDR content, it tone maps it down to SDR. It’s unclear when that will change.
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Moonlight currently cannot do HDR on the steam deck. They are waiting for the next release for ffmpeg before they can add this functionality.
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It baffles me how much Valve ignores streaming. We almost all have powerful PCs. We need HDR,low latency streaming with the OLED HDR device that has Wi-Fi 6.
I understand that there’s little they can do regarding suspend resume being borked when streaming until they make their own Steam OS console, but Steam streaming has always been lagging behind it’s competitors.
Valve is actually doing A LOT of work for content streaming, but not for the deck
Valves upcoming VR headset (code named deckard) will have wireless VR streaming from a PC as an option, we know this as Valve accidently pushed the work they did into a public steamVR beta, not accessible but you could see the work done if you datamined it, SOOOO much work being done for video streaming
but for some reason Valve hasn’t pushed all that work into steam remote play, Valves internal VR remote play they are working on is leagues ahead of their current remote play, and part of that work is allowing the streaming of flatscreen (non VR) games into the VR headset, so all this work is compatible with the existing remote play, but despite that fact, Valve just has not pushed this to the current remote play, they probably will once the deckard and their VR streaming launch, but where looking at a year until that announcement at the earliest
its just frustrating knowing Valve could improve an aspect of steam and the deck with 1 click and just because its technically work being done for a separate project, Valve isn’t willing to press the button, its just like how it took FOREVER for Valve to replace steam big picture with the deckUI, despite the fact that the decksUI is built into steam and from the second the deck released people found out how to enable the UI on desktop steam
Yep, and if rumors about the Deckard being a Steam OS console acting as a standalone compute unit that wirelessly communicates with a light HMD, then this same console would also be able to stream to the Deck with suspend resume supported. That’s what I’m holding out for.