Gaming from downstairs

ATiRubyfan · 25 Jan 2025 at 15:40

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?

Spleen Sauce · 25 Jan 2025 at 15:45

Yes. Steam remote play.

ATiRubyfan · 25 Jan 2025 at 16:15

Spleen Sauce said:
Yes. Steam remote play.

Will I be capped by the graphics power of the 2060Ti?

Bluecube · 25 Jan 2025 at 16:23

No as the video is being streamed from your upstairs PC

HeadlessChicken · 25 Jan 2025 at 21:24

Sunshine / Moonlight is also great at streaming (I use it from PC to steam deck, but 2 PCs is the same idea).

Craig R · 25 Jan 2025 at 21:25

HeadlessChicken said:
Sunshine / Moonlight is also great at streaming (I use it from PC to steam deck, but 2 PCs is the same idea).

Yeah I do this too.

A strong WiFi signal required though.

ATiRubyfan · Monday at 21:01

Steam remote play was great but the graphics quality was not impressive.

Downstairs

Back on PC upstairs

snowdog · Monday at 21:54

Compression...

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).

Dark Light · Monday at 23:21

Get an optical HDMI cable.

xaldub · Monday at 23:30

Dark Light said:
Get an optical HDMI cable.

May not be enough ; will likely need a powered USB hub ( with CAT6 cable ) to use a controller.

snowdog · 2025-03-11T11:53:34+0000

People still use wired controllers?

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...

xaldub · 2025-03-11T13:33:47+0000

snowdog said:
People still use wired controllers?

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...

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 ).

snowdog · 2025-03-11T19:09:34+0000

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 ).

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

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Turning my controller on by ramming the home button starts Google TV immediately and I can start steam from there...