Gaming from downstairs

ATiRubyfan

ATiRubyfan

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My PC is upstairs in my room and has the RX6700XT.
Now, I want to play on my TV , which is located downstairs, but do not want to move the PC up and down.

I have an ASUS ROG laptop with a RTX 2060Ti. I want to utilize the graphics of the RX6700XT to play FF7 Rebirth for example.

Is there a solution I could go for?
 
Steam remote play was great but the graphics quality was not impressive.

Downstairs
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Back on PC upstairs

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Try removing or increasing the bitrate limit. ( too high and it might increase input and video lag tho, a good connection is essential)
Try h265 or av1 instead of h264.
Try a different streaming app...

iirc Steam is also set to 1080p stream per default, I remember I had to increase to 4k...


You need to faff about with the settings, and ultimately I understand Moonlight is better ( I have not tried tho as i have got decent results with steam itself on the shield pro).
 
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People still use wired controllers? :p

Imho the hdmi route is very unuser friendly and as is using wired controllers.

Can get very decent results streaming just needs some fine tuning. And once setup it's much easier than faffing about with your display settings...
 
snowdog said:
People still use wired controllers? :p

Imho the hdmi route is very unuser friendly and as is using wired controllers.

Can get very decent results streaming just needs some fine tuning. And once setup it's much easier than faffing about with your display settings...
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Signal doesn't extend far enough from the room where my PC is located, to the living room. And I know this is the same for many others. So I either have to use a powered USB/cable or move the PC to the living room ( I choose the latter ).
 
xaldub said:
Signal doesn't extend far enough from the room where my PC is located, to the living room. And I know this is the same for many others. So I either have to use a powered USB/cable or move the PC to the living room ( I choose the latter ).
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Connect the controllers to your streaming target... The only disadvantage I must admit is that haptics and feedback often doesn't work when streaming. I do hope that gets implemented sometime in Steam or alternatives...

My pc is downstairs and I stream to 2 targets, one is a shield Pro which incidentally is practically next to my pc, so there I indeed keep controllers connect to the pc directly as it allows for haptic feedback (nice with dualsense in some sony ports like God of War).
But upstairs I have a Ccwgtv4k, and I just paired a controller to there permanently. Works fine, but no vibration and no haptics :(.

Turning my controller on by ramming the home button starts Google TV immediately and I can start steam from there...
 
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snowdog said:
Can get very decent results streaming just needs some fine tuning. And once setup it's much easier than faffing about with your display settings...
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I've found that Steam streaming seems to work really well. I only stumbled across it a few months ago when I was dying of the flu and couldn't be bothered to sit at my computer. I use a Shield Pro as well and it's hooked up with ethernet. I did have to have a play around with the streaming settings to get it looking how I wanted, but once I'd done that it's been pretty flawless.
 
Moving the PC probably isn;t anywhere near as hard as your imagining and the novelty of gaming on a TV probably fades fast.

lets face it its like a 3-5 minute job to move the pc.
 
Shout out to the OG Steam Link! Still have one in a cupboard and only taken out of its box once to see what all the fuss was about.
 
Dark Light said:
Get an optical HDMI cable.
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This.

I went through all sorts of trials with wireless streaming techniques and gear about 5 years ago but it got too frustrating as it was so inconsistent. In the end got some optical HDMI cables properly installed and routed.
 
snowdog said:
Connect the controllers to your streaming target... The only disadvantage I must admit is that haptics and feedback often doesn't work when streaming. I do hope that gets implemented sometime in Steam or alternatives...

My pc is downstairs and I stream to 2 targets, one is a shield Pro which incidentally is practically next to my pc, so there I indeed keep controllers connect to the pc directly as it allows for haptic feedback (nice with dualsense in some sony ports like God of War).
But upstairs I have a Ccwgtv4k, and I just paired a controller to there permanently. Works fine, but no vibration and no haptics :(.

Turning my controller on by ramming the home button starts Google TV immediately and I can start steam from there...
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When I used to use Moonlight on a Shield for game streaming in another room, I used a app/daemon called VirtualHere, which enabled controllers, keyboard, mouse, even storage, to connect to the Shield but operate as if they were directly connected to the PC.

Was really nice to have, as haptics etc worked!
 
ATiRubyfan said:
Steam remote play was great but the graphics quality was not impressive.

Downstairs
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Back on PC upstairs

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Steam remote is rubbish, it's laggy and quality is poor as you noticed

Your best bet is to run an hdmi cable between the two rooms
 
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