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?
Isn’t this just wasting electricity? Same with the people saying their Deck lasts longer per charge with streaming. Whatever energy you’re saving by not having to charge the battery is being used 10x from the PC running.
I don’t get it.
Depends. It’s a decent brand of adult diapers.
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!
Not always, but youd be a fool not to for tripple a games. Be a bit silly to stream stardew valley for example imo.
Do you have to have an Nvidia GPU to do this?
I have a 2070 in the other room and I still pretty much only stream to the deck. I haven’t encountered noticeable lag issues with Sunshine/Moonlight, it triples my battery life, and I don’t have to mess around with Deck settings and game settings to have it run optimally. I just got a dock so now when I have access to the TV I stream to the docked Deck which outputs to my TV. I use my DualSense controller which the Deck reads almost perfectly despite being Bluetooth, and I’m all set. Sure I could play on my PC, but I sit at my desk all day for work so often I feel like sitting on the couch instead, which the Deck is perfect for. I dunno, YMMV with the streaming, but I have been loving it.
I don’t have a 4090 but a quite powerful RTX 3070 laptop.
I tried streaming with moonlight on my oled deck: Hogwarts legacy, Diablo 4 and R&C Rift Apart. HL and D4 just look bad on the Deck even with streaming. I think these two games just look bad at 800p no matter what gpu you have behind (they both look great on a 1080p screen). And BTW Diablo 4 looks bad also if run on the Deck directly. Rift apart instead looked quite good. I think recent triple AAA games for the majority just look bad at 800p. I decided I’ll use my deck just to play indies and lighter or older games (The Witcher 3 looks good for instance). At that it is GREAT, but with recent AAA games it think it’s just better to play them with dedicated Gpus and at least 1080p screens.
In summary, I think it’s pretty useless to use a powerful GPU in streaming with the Deck. Just play lighter games on the deck directly
Try it and find out, if it works well for what your playing you’ll probably get more battery life outa doing it that way, otherwise there is not really a point
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 would stream all day if suspend resume was supported when streaming. But it’s not. It’s the best feature of the Deck, and you lose it when streaming. I can’t start a game, exit, start again etc everytime I want to play a game. This is not why I have a Deck.
Personally, the latency issues either streaming bother me too much. I guess I’m just more sensitive to it than some others (even with the host being wired and my Deck on the same network), the latency may be minimal but it’s enough to annoy me.
How is streaming when using gyro-aim?
I feel the latency might be more noticeable with this control method.
That or maybe the additional smoothing and other processing would cause issues.You should be using sunshine and moonlight!