Best setup to stream PC to TV? (AMD laptop with ryzen 5 - Windows or Steam OS?)

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Hi Guys, as title really... ive got a decent gaming PC in my office and i USED to have a second one in the lounge, but i gave it up as it was expensive and rarely used. Recently ive had a few instances where ive wanted to play a game in the lounge, with the kids for example, but begrudge paying 2x for it on PS5 at inflated prices. Ive steam streamed a bit PC to PC, i also VLANNED myself so i could play at work once :D. Relatively speaking im an "IT Expert" so no need to dumb anything down, what im here to ask is quite simply....if i have a spare ryzen 5 (4th gen) laptop that is "spare" then -

1)will this be reasonable to stream to assuming gigabit LAN? (BTW i mean hooked up to my 75in TV not playing on the laptop)
2)is steamOS viable? Would it be better?
3)Moonlight/sunshine? better?

Extra consideration is i dont really "want" to be doing much KB/MS work in the lounge, im considering just using a dualsense or xb1 controller by bluetooth (as i own both already) steam OS would make this easier i assume, but are there windows options ie big picture, autolaunch scripts that sort of thing...?

Really after some advice and info from anyone with a setup like this or similar. Thanks all
 
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Don't have any advice, but interested to hear what other people's set-ups are like. At the moment, I just move my PC to the living room if there is a game I want to play in comfort from the couch. I did look at using 10m USB / HDMI 2.1 cables from my mancave to the living room but didn't like the idea of having them laying on the floor to trip on. Never seriously given streaming a go ...
 
Gray2233 said:

Steam Remote Play might be the easiest option, simple enough to set up.
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So my Q is less this and more what's best. Remote play is just app based steam streaming, which isn't needed in my situation. If my TV store (LG) supported it then 100% this would be my go to with a BT controller and no other hardware. But since this app isnt available it would still necessitate steam on a device. I believe that i already have the best solution to this with a reasonable laptop (HDMI->AMP/Receiver->TV) but there is a real ?? over Steam on windows (so effectively remote play as in your link) Steam OS (will it work on a ryzen class laptop) or a 3rd party solution like sunshine/moonlight...
 
xaldub said:
Don't have any advice, but interested to hear what other people's set-ups are like. At the moment, I just move my PC to the living room if there is a game I want to play in comfort from the couch. I did look at using 10m USB / HDMI 2.1 cables from my mancave to the living room but didn't like the idea of having them laying on the floor to trip on. Never seriously given streaming a go ...
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The big negative is IIRC 1080p and no HDR tho potentially moonlight/sunshine does manage that in some fashion
 
I think ill be the canary on this and im going to give installing steamOS on a AMD Ryzen laptop a go and see how it plays Will update thread with steps and any issues
 
IIRC, I know one person that has done streaming to their lounge from their office and they found Moonlight better that Steam in terms of quality and latency. But, as always, YMMV. I've got Moonlight setup on my PC/Xbox, but never bothered to use it!
 
Ok so i can probably answer this quite well already.

First, as of this post at least, SteamOS is redundant on desktop, Rumours of a new release post Deck...but not out.
So that was a no go.

Given that, i thought well lets just go win 11, max compatibility.
Realized laptop wasnt Ryzen 5 (damn) was i3 8th gen with Intel UHD 620 graphics.

Installed windows did drivers installed Steam. Basically...it worked at 4k but felt mushy and laggy, had a dig and realised laptop HDMI must be 1.4b as i couldnt enable >30hz @ 4k so i dropped it to 1080p and bumped to 60hz which felt a lot better honestly. However it still seemed mushy on both a wired xbox pad and BT Dualsense.

Installed Sunshine on my main gaming PC and moonlight on the laptop. Now THIS worked well. Once configured this 'almost' feels like its native. Played a bunch of Elden Ring looked and felt great.

So now the question is....do i find a spare laptop that has HDMI 2.1, may not be cost effective... I do have a plex server running a 5950x and an Arc 380 GPU that was only in there for transcode - its hooked up in tandem with my gaming PC to my LG oled which is 4k hdr 120hz. So the litmus test might be to stream from the gaming PC to the ARC server at 4k 120hz (potentially HDR too) and see how distinguishable it is from native.

If it works then a low profile ARC gen gpu is only about £100 bung that in some SFF Dell desktop for another £100 and it MIGHT be the best 4k 120 HDR stream box you could buy honestly, will test....
 
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theone8181 said:
Guy I work with uses a 15m fibre/hdmi cable. His pc is upstairs so he just ran it through the floor. Is that possible in your situation?
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monkeyspank said:
I have briefly thought about doing this but realised I would have to run a powered USB cable too and gave up. USB over IP is great but not for gaming.
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Theres a LOT involved in this tbh. Annoyingly i renovated this whole place about a year ago and it would have been fairly easy to run some sort of fibre/hdmi kvm solution. Sadly i didnt. Now it would be prohibitively difficult/costly versus a high/mid spec gaming PC under the TV. The purpose of this project is really to see if, hardware allowing, a "close to native" streaming experience is viable and at what nominal cost...
 
another thing i have the potential to try is 2.5gb LAN i already have a 2.5gb switch in play and i think my gaming pc is 2.5gb, if i can work out the specifics and add a 2.5gb to some sort of receiver box that might be interesting, need to see if moonlight supports that someone must be doing it lol
 
How do you guys handle controller/kbm here?

I've got my computer in the loft, would love to play games on my TV downstairs. I have ethernet connections between the 2 already.

How can I use a controller though? Bluetooth wont connect at this distance from the PC
 
moppy89 said:
How do you guys handle controller/kbm here?

I've got my computer in the loft, would love to play games on my TV downstairs. I have ethernet connections between the 2 already.

How can I use a controller though? Bluetooth wont connect at this distance from the PC
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If streaming to a thin client using moonlight/sunshine then you BT to the client at the TV end. So in my case i BT KB to the laptop thats running moonlight and moonlight passes those inputs to the host
 
@moppy89 i found a cheap nuc on the jungle website that has hdmi 2.0, im torn between that and putting a low end ARC or 3000 series GPU into an i5 10th gen SFF PC i have knocking about. Cost is about same (~130)
Based on my testing so far that NUC thing its called errr "PELADN WI-6 Pro" would be a very economical option.
 
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