r/Steam_Link

Seen some mixed opinions on the fire stick , any other ways to stream to TV to play ?

I used to do a lot of remote play from my PS5 to my Steam Deck with my Netgear Nighthawk router. But since I moved to a bigger home and switched to an eero mesh network, I haven’t been able to get remote play working well again, either with PS5 Chiaki or Steam Link.
Right now, my workaround is to plug a secondary router into one of the eero nodes on the third floor and connect all my gaming devices to that router, basically bypassing the eero network. It works okay as long as I use my Deck on the third floor, but I’d really prefer not to need that secondary router.
So my question is: does anyone have recommendations for a mesh system that works well with remote play, or has anyone successfully set up mesh Wi-Fi for PS5 Chiaki or Steam Link?
One strange thing about eero is that it doesn’t let you separate the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands.

Bought a new Shield TV Pro thinking it would be the best option for streaming Steam off my PC and also replacing my old apple TV. I returned it after having random Shield remote dropouts and freezing after trying to download apps on google play and then starting a seemingly endless loop of rebooting itself. It was fully updated. I figured it was a faulty unit that was repacked as the control came with batteries already installed but reading some threads in here makes me think these issues are just the situation with the unit now as its unsupported. I know its old tech but it still seems to have the best specs for streaming steam. Should I try and get my money back?

Hi evergone! I'm writing to see if anyone else has tried docking the steam deck (official dock) to play on a tv and connected the steam controller puck to the dock as well? Ive had the dock for a while but generally avoided using it as every controller ive tried has resulted in pretty noticeable input latency. My hope was that the steam controller with the puck would resolve these issues but I guess not? Add on to that the fact that im also trying to stream a game from my PC back home and the issue becomes even more exacerbated sadly. Thanks for any help or feedback!

Playing a game local on my machine (9800x3d, 5090) it gets say 110fps at 4k.

Using a minipc on the tv, all hardwired 2.5g network, steam link will give me the same 110fps 4k stream, variable bitrate but set to unlimited so going between 100-250mbps. This still has some blur to it so I want to push things with apollo/moonight.

But when I use moonlight on that same machine, the host only delivers ~50 fps. Settings dont matter, I can turn it to low settings and get ~55fps at most. This is at 300/400/500 bitrate I tried them all. Tried NVEC and AV1. HDR and non-HDR.

Any clue what could be going on? Its clearly something on the host apollo is facing that steam link isn't, just steam link quality isn't high enough for me.

Edit: it was HAGS on the host. No clue why, but HAGS and the encoder don’t mix and choke down the system completely. Turn it off and all is good. Weird.

I've been using Steam Link for the first time in a while recently and I noticed that Steam Recording gets turned off when streaming. This seems to be intentional on Valve's part but I can't find out why that's forced on me. It sure works when I stream VR stuff through Wivrn so it's not a technical limitation

I picked up a Steam link Device for cheap intending to play games on my 55 inch 4k 120hz TV at 1080p 60fps over Ethernet. I have a fairly powerful PC. I understand things will be a bit blurrier due to the resolution difference, but I'm not going in for crazy graphics. Just couch co-op and games with friends. I tried to use the Steam Link app on the smart tv, however, the app wasn't available. So I tried with a 4k fire stick, but the app wasn't available there either.

I have been hearing a lot about using moonlight + Sunshine over the steam link. My question is can I use moonlight on the Steam Link device? If so, are there tutorials for this?

im sorry if this is a reoccurring question but, is there any way to get rid of the black bars? when i go on youtube for a tutorial people just talk about nvidia panels while i have a amd gpu...

I have my PC around 30ft and 2 walls in between the tv i want to play steam games.

My pc only has a shitty cheap wifi dongle.

When i try to run steam link the signal is increadibly week.

What can I get to make it better ? Would dedicated router like archer connected directly to pc help ?

So the prices have been announced for Steam Machine 2026. It’s expensive and pretty weak hardware.

Therefore, people may conclude that hey, they already have a powerful gaming PC at their desk, why don’t they just stream from that to their TV?

And if users think that, maybe Valve will also decide it’s worth revisiting, and will polish the user experience so I don’t have to turn on the host PC’s displays and launch the game on the host before connecting to it remotely if I want a smooth experience.

Maybe they’ll even release a general hardware version of Steam OS with a specially tailored lower-level streaming implementation that runs even better than something they can do purely at the level of the Steam client.

Hey, a boy can dream.

I just got a Steam Link set up, which I was most interested in using with flight games, and am currently playing around with the Microsoft Flight Simulators (I have both the 2020 and 2024 versions, and will eventually play around with War Thunder, IL-2 and DCS, but those aren't priority ATM) using an old Xbox 360 gamepad I'd had collecting dust in a closet for the past few years. Miraculously, it still works!

Well, to keep it brief, I'd like to be able to use a flight stick with either version of MSFS (or, ideally, both). I had some trouble setting getting a gamepad to work with the Steam Link (it wouldn't play nice with my DualSense) and would like to avoid similar issues w/ the flight stick, if possible. If any of you have any experience getting flight sticks to work with Steam Link in general (or, hopefully, with either modern MSFS game) or recommendations for specific flight sticks to consider or avoid, please share!

My current understanding is that the Thrustmaster T16000M is generally the most-recommended flight stick of wherever the arbitrary line of "acceptable quality" is, and while it's a bit pricier than I'd want to pay, it's not more than I'd be willing to pay. But it's also designed specifically for PCs, and I'm not sure how well it'll work with the Steam Link. Alternatively there's the cheaper T-Flight HOTAS stick, also from Thrustmaster, that's about half as much as the T-16000, and seems designed to work specifically with consoles: there's both an Xbox and Playstation variant, though I can't tell that there's any real difference between the two beyond the button glyphs. I'm wondering if maybe the Steam Link would just recognize it as a 360 gamepad and the same A/B/X/Y/etc. key bindings for gamepad would apply to the similarly-marked button son the T-Flight stick? I dunno.

If it's not clear, I'm kinda feelin' lost here. So any advice y'all can fling at me would be much appreciated.

I have a decent PC in my office, Fios high speed internet and an NVidia Shield Pro in my LR. I prefer to play in the LR more often than not and need to decide the best solution. I am running a 4090 so I am wondering what my best experience would be. I know the new Steam Machine will have graphic/performance limitations compared to my main rig I just don't know if the potential latency of using Steam Link or the combination of Sunshine & Moonlight would be a better option and which of the two is superior. I am not that tech savvy so ease of use is a huge consideration. Any suggestions?