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Steam's built in game streaming previously hasn't had the best quality, leaving many people to use other options like Moonlight/Apollo.

Well I saw some people saying that Steam Remote Play streaming is working a lot better now with the new SteamOS update.

Trying it out myself, it really does seem like it's improved. The whole experience worked very smoothly, and visual quality of the stream is much better than the last time I tried it.

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[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

While we’re in this topic, YSK about Polaris as well, a Linux native headless streaming server which also boasts a handful of great other features.

https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris

There's way too much stuff I need to do remotely to limit it to streaming just games or the UI. Back when I suffered windows I used parsec, but moonlight is far superior if you can solve for networking.

[–] littlelordfauntleroy@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago

I honestly can't say I have had any complaints with it since moving to wifi 6, but if this update improves streaming for a chunk of people then that's a win.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

Great because at one point I plan on using a Steam Machine for my racing sim and using it with my Steam Deck hooked to a big screen when playing normal games that the Deck can’t run.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

I'll have to try again, it's been rough the last few times I've tried.

[–] user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Does Remote Play work for non-Steam games running in Steam?

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I've recently been using it to pipe (windows only) Forza from my PC to my Deck and/or TV via usb-c dock and hdmi.

But strangely I had issues where the picture would freeze which seemed to be solved by disabling hardware decoding. I'll have to try again with the new update

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm pretty sure it does

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 3 points 7 hours ago

I need to try that again on my desktop, a while ago something broke hard and initially I had to disable AV1 and HEVC, but then it just decided that nah, we don’t do any of that stuff in this house. Then again, not SteamOS so….