Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates

mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zyrxil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Try installing moonlight-stream.org on the Steam Link. Uses Nvidia’s GeForce Experience to stream from your PC; works a lot better in my experience.

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  • noyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can concur. The hdmi cable to my living room broke, and I tried steam link on my shield but it was way too much input lag. With moonlight however I cannot tell the difference anymore, it honestly feels as direct as having it connected via hdmi. This is with direct pc - cat6 - router - cat6 - shield though.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s fine for games that don’t require super fast reflexes. I played 99% of Final Fantasy X on mine. The only things I needed to move to my PC for were the (infamously difficult to begin with) races. The Persona games also ran fine on it. But it’s worth noting that all of those are turn-based, so I’m not worried about a noticeable slight input lag. I absolutely wouldn’t use it for something like a shooter or fighting game where reflexes matter.

  My fiancée actually prefers when I use my Steam Link, because it means we can cuddle on the couch while I play. So she doesn’t feel like gaming is coming “between” us like it does when I’m at my PC and she can’t snuggle up next to me.

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  • LemmyMigrate@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was able to play crash Bandicoot 1-3 on my steam link with steam controller and I was having no problem to run diamond times on hardest maps. I wouldn’t play counterstrike or dota on steam link, but I almost never had delay problem with my steam link… it’s interesting how many people had different experiences. I was even raiding classic wow on steam link.

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• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ive had lag once using the Raspberry Pi variant and that was due to using a poor quality usb cable, it was under powering the unit. Aside from that it’s been surprisingly fast on ethernet and WiFi.

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• Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually got very mixed results with mine. Ultimately the app version is just more stable for some reason. I did get periodic lag, but interestingly I had the most problems with graphically intense games. Steam link has absolutely no problem, if my PC can run it smoothly it looks great on the app too. But on the hardware version it struggled to keep up and I got periodic crashes. Weird.

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