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First impressions for £40 what a well presented and well packaged piece of kit! Good start
Steam Link and Steam Controller now available to Pre Order
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I had FPS issues I think. I can't say for sure because I haven't tried it on my desktop yet, just via the link, but it wasn't buttery smooth. Not too bad, just enough to know it wasn't being played locally, which is where the link usually shines.
What every else has said but you can get the wireless 360 with the dongle it's just called Xbox 360 wireless controller for PC ,
Believe a famous South American online retailer does them and they work out cheaper than getting the controller and dongle separately
£31.01 I think at the moment
Still need a wireless receiver with the play and charge kit - afaik it only syncs/charges the device.
Huh, mine works fine on my PC.
Well, it's an iMac running Windows, but even so... works fine. I had to do some fiddling to get the drivers installed but that's do-able, and it works without any fiddling on the Link.
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Not had a proper go on it yet but seems promising, has bugged out a few times opening and closing games and ive had to go upstairs to close a pop up relating to this
Works best on balanced! Just looks a tad blotchy but not too bad! Beautiful looks great but i notice some lag then so need to decide what i want from it
Works best on balanced! Just looks a tad blotchy but not too bad! Beautiful looks great but i notice some lag then so need to decide what i want from it
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Yes. The Xbox 360 controllers have excellent range. My pc is upstairs and it worked well during my test. I was using Fire TV and moonlight - Game still haven't delivered my Steam Link so I've got the hassle of sorting that out now.
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Played some fallout 4 last night! Solid 60fps 1080 on balanced mode, so was a bit blotchy but perfectly playable imo! Had to start the game at the pc due to the launcher but was ok!
Need to mess about with encoding on/off etc to see what works best! Really want to get 60fps on beautiful as it does look much better. It does hit 60 but fluctuates a bit!
But then something happened and it wouldnt reconnect to the pc so i think my power plugs may have dropped out or something
Need to mess about with encoding on/off etc to see what works best! Really want to get 60fps on beautiful as it does look much better. It does hit 60 but fluctuates a bit!
But then something happened and it wouldnt reconnect to the pc so i think my power plugs may have dropped out or something
Few things,
Its runs like crap on n 2.4ghz, don't bother
A little better on 5ghz but expect drop outs and lag
Decent ac routers work very well
Homeplugs work fine but can introduce higher ping and visual latency, check this by enabling on screen stats then clicking start plus y on gamepad when you have connected to your pc stream
Wired Ethernet is by far the best obviously, if you can do it then its a no brainer
Make sure hardware encoding is on on your pc in steam under the in home streaming setting
Set your TV to Game mode if it has it to minimise input lag
Make sure with same onscreen stats you arnt using software encoding, you want it to be showing one of the following hardware options
1. Desktop BitBlt RGB + libyuv + libx264 main (2 threads) software
2. Desktop DWM NVIFR H264 hardware
3. Desktop NVFBC H264 hardware
4. Game D3D11 RGB + libyuv + libx264
main (2 threads) software
5. Game async D3D11 + NVIFR H264 hardware
Of these NVFBC is best, to set it to default make sure NVIDIA shadowplay is enabled and set to manual, alternatively there is a bat file out that lets you switch between Nvifr and nvbfc
I dont have an AMD card so can't comment on that.Hope this helps someone
Its runs like crap on n 2.4ghz, don't bother
A little better on 5ghz but expect drop outs and lag
Decent ac routers work very well
Homeplugs work fine but can introduce higher ping and visual latency, check this by enabling on screen stats then clicking start plus y on gamepad when you have connected to your pc stream
Wired Ethernet is by far the best obviously, if you can do it then its a no brainer
Make sure hardware encoding is on on your pc in steam under the in home streaming setting
Set your TV to Game mode if it has it to minimise input lag
Make sure with same onscreen stats you arnt using software encoding, you want it to be showing one of the following hardware options
1. Desktop BitBlt RGB + libyuv + libx264 main (2 threads) software
2. Desktop DWM NVIFR H264 hardware
3. Desktop NVFBC H264 hardware
4. Game D3D11 RGB + libyuv + libx264
main (2 threads) software
5. Game async D3D11 + NVIFR H264 hardware
Of these NVFBC is best, to set it to default make sure NVIDIA shadowplay is enabled and set to manual, alternatively there is a bat file out that lets you switch between Nvifr and nvbfc
I dont have an AMD card so can't comment on that.Hope this helps someone
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How do you get those stats up?
Sorry bit of a noob to this. I bought a wireless 360 controller and the charge wire but didn't realise it was still wireless - well it's obvious when you think about it but still...
Currently sat in office waiting for delivery dude to bring the wireless receiver thingy
Sorry bit of a noob to this. I bought a wireless 360 controller and the charge wire but didn't realise it was still wireless - well it's obvious when you think about it but still...
Currently sat in office waiting for delivery dude to bring the wireless receiver thingy
How do you get those stats up?
Sorry bit of a noob to this. I bought a wireless 360 controller and the charge wire but didn't realise it was still wireless - well it's obvious when you think about it but still...
Currently sat in office waiting for delivery dude to bring the wireless receiver thingy
On your link, before you connect to your pc its under settings> streaming or something like that, there are only a couple of options so its easy to find.Not in front of link at the minute, I can clarify later.
What's the best case latency you guys are seeing ? I currently have my old Q6600 in the living room doing steam in home streaming duty. With my mate's old Radeon 5770 it was showing a fairly nasty 110ms. Stuck one of my 970s in it and had a much nicer 40ms. Works very well at 1080p 60 fps over homeplugs which only max around 30mbps and shows ping of 10ms.
Be interested to see latency on the Link as CSGO felt quite laggy (input wise) even with TV on game mode.
Be interested to see latency on the Link as CSGO felt quite laggy (input wise) even with TV on game mode.
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Will check what encoding i am on later!
I am using just the default virgin media hub router and cheap tp link adapters. Would it be benifical to upgrade any of this or would any differences be minor? Its runs really well but i wouldnt mind getting it on beautiful!
Tried some advanced warfare, a bit of input lag on beautiful but on balanced it was pretty much gone
I am using just the default virgin media hub router and cheap tp link adapters. Would it be benifical to upgrade any of this or would any differences be minor? Its runs really well but i wouldnt mind getting it on beautiful!
Tried some advanced warfare, a bit of input lag on beautiful but on balanced it was pretty much gone
Check your ping on onscreen details when link is running, my power adapters gave me 20ms of ping, a lot of people get 4-10ms from what I have read, so it was unacceptable to me so I wired gigabit to it.Also do some file transfers on your adapters, if you get 5-6 megabytes a sec or more and you have the above low ping then you should have no trouble on beautiful and 30mbps encoding setting.
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I just turned on nvidia shadow play and set it to manual after reading that helps, and now i am getting much better performance on beautiful setting.
Ping time is up and down though! Seems to sit around 10ms but spikes up to 20 and between the 2.
Streaming latency is less than 1.5ms but display latency is 25+ms
So not really sure if thats good or not! Feels ok in games i have tried but would a better set of power adapters increase my stats? Ive got the bog standard ones from tp link that i think i paid £25 for, or would i not notice a difference
Ping time is up and down though! Seems to sit around 10ms but spikes up to 20 and between the 2.
Streaming latency is less than 1.5ms but display latency is 25+ms
So not really sure if thats good or not! Feels ok in games i have tried but would a better set of power adapters increase my stats? Ive got the bog standard ones from tp link that i think i paid £25 for, or would i not notice a difference
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This is what I am wondering. My previous experience with streaming on steam via Wi-Fi was really poor (laptop is low spec, but high spec host). I could hardwire an ethernet cable all the way from router but would be a pain in ass to be honest. If homeplugs work well though, then that would be ideal solution.