Nvidia gamestream ending

Cyber-Mav · 24 Dec 2022 at 11:53

Anyone else with a shield tv who uses gamestream from a pc in different room to play games on tv peed off at this feature being removed in a coming update?

MassiveJim · 24 Dec 2022 at 13:10

Literally just found out about this.
Peed off is an understatement.
I bought my shield pro in July and one of the main reasons was gamestream.

I specifically bought an RTX3080 so that it would work as a pose to a cheaper AMD card.

I don't understand the reasoning for removing the feature either, it isn't adding load to their servers or costing them any money.

Will there be anyway to block the update ? or does it need to be connected to cloud to work in the first place ?

wunkley · 24 Dec 2022 at 14:32

I would be well ****** off, if I still used Gamestream and it worked properly.
A couple of years ago I got a shield pro and got into it, but it was very annoying. Tried everything and wasted a lot of money to get it running properly without lag and image breakup and to get HDR to stream, but without going into detail it was an inconsistent nightmare. I gave up and got some super long fibre optic 8k HDMI cables properly installed in the house - and now that's a dream.

Josh · 24 Dec 2022 at 14:39

I've installed Steam Link on it, annoying it's ending but SL works well enough for my needs.

tereu5 · 28 Dec 2022 at 10:34

Josh said:
I've installed Steam Link on it, annoying it's ending but SL works well enough for my needs.

I have to try this if it works but those suddent kills of a service does not come down good!

Fire_fly · 28 Dec 2022 at 11:19

Going to be honest. I've had Shield Pro under the Tv for nearly 18 months and I've never used Gamestream. I really should give it a go before it goes.

snowdog · 28 Dec 2022 at 13:20

I thought this was the primary reason to use a Shield?

Problem is with Steam link, it doesn't support 4k. Steam link works nice, much better than expected, but the maximum bitrate and resolution for streaming is a bit ****...

Yes your game can run on 4k natively but the stream to TV is just 1080P

. I guess you do get rid of jaggies and shimmering that way, but still... I actually thought about buying a shield pro for this, but I understand now they're removing this feature? ridiculous...

loftie · 28 Dec 2022 at 13:23

snowdog said:
I thought this was the primary reason to use a Shield?

I thought this as well :confused:

, seems like a stupid idea. Buy an AMD card and use AMD Link I suppose ?

Matty8787 · 28 Dec 2022 at 13:30

I'm sure there is a whole Reddit post and petition about this, might be worth signing?

Duncan Reay · 30 Dec 2022 at 21:25

Matty8787 said:
I'm sure there is a whole Reddit post and petition about this, might be worth signing?

https://www.change.org/p/nvidia-nvidia-revert-decision-to-shutdown-gamestream

Orcvader · 1 Jan 2023 at 17:20

So testing with Parsec I can do 4K streaming and it works perfectly on the Shield 2015. Problem is unlike Moonlight, there's no hardware decoding for Linux/Steam Deck, so there's a some latency due to software decoding.

There's this alternative FOSS host called Sunshine, I'll most likely give it a go once Gamestream is removed from GFE: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

Haggisman · 2 Jan 2023 at 09:14

Well, there goes one of the main reasons to consider an Nvidia card this gen instead of AMD - my wallet says thanks!

I have a Shield, and use it for home streaming quite a bit. Currently have an AMD card as recently it was a case of picking up whatever was available, but when I had 980ti before, Gamestream worked really well - Steam link app works fine, but the quality isn't quite up there with Gamestream. AMD link isn't very stable, and doesn't have the same level of controller support as Steam.

Unfortunately neither of them support HDR.

snowdog said:
Problem is with Steam link, it doesn't support 4k. Steam link works nice, much better than expected, but the maximum bitrate and resolution for streaming is a bit ****...

It does support 4k, but as you say, the limited bitrate means you get quite a bit of artifacting/blockiness.

It would be nice if this prompted Valve to bring the Steam link app to this decade by adding support for higher bit rates and HDR, but I'm not holding my breath...