Steam link gaming thread.

Played overcooked last night with my girlfriend and that was fun but it might be a bit frantic for a young child. Very playable though. Might have an easy mode or something.
 
I have a steam link. ive not used it much, but had some good results. Wired network for me.

I have a new PC now, and i bought grid autosport recently. fired up the steam link the other day, and it has the streaming fps in the corner, that was there all the time. after much fiddling in the options, i did get rid of it, but then the game stopped running at the correct resolution, which i fixed by changing the res in the game settings. then i had the problem of a mouse cursor sitting in the middle of the screen, which i did manage to solve eventually by moving it to the bottom corner...

i got there, but it was all a bit of a faff. i'll try it again, and see if it was a one off, but do other people have these issues?
 
Couple of questions about this device.

1. Can you get your PC to switch on *and* off via the controller plugged into the link? Or do you have to manually switch the PC on, trot down stairs, play your game, then trot back upstairs to switch the PC off? Does this rely on you setting the PC bios to switch on over LAN, or does the steam link box work completely outside of this? I ask because I've never been able to get my PC to switch on reliably over LAN activity when I want it to for other stuff. Getting it to shutdown remotely was also a mission, but I am guessing this would be easier with the Link cos you can actually see the windows desktop and shutdown from there? It's more the switching on thing I am bothered about, what with being terminally lazy.

2. How much of a phaff is it in practice if your main PC monitor in 2560x1440 resolution and the Link is 1920x1080? Do you have to change settings in game every time you want to use the link, or can the device scale down to 1080p by itself before sending the signal over ethernet, if you leave the res at 1440p? And if it does try to scale down, is the picture actually worse than if natively set to 1080p? What about windows desktop res if left at 2560p, is this an issue?
 
CaptainRAVE said:
That is your problem right there. I ditched mine. Too much lag. Speed was good, latency was terrible.
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It's fine for me with a grid game I bought for the link. For rocket league I had to dial the gfx details right back. Not sure if that was a cpu or gfx card bottle neck...
 
Amleto said:
It's fine for me with a grid game I bought for the link. For rocket league I had to dial the gfx details right back. Not sure if that was a cpu or gfx card bottle neck...
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Make sure you set the steam settings correctly I.e. If you have a powerful gpu, get it to do the encoding/decoding with the correct AMD/Nvidia settings. A powerful gpu seems to help this.
 
Bubo said:
Couple of questions about this device.

1. Can you get your PC to switch on *and* off via the controller plugged into the link? Or do you have to manually switch the PC on, trot down stairs, play your game, then trot back upstairs to switch the PC off? Does this rely on you setting the PC bios to switch on over LAN, or does the steam link box work completely outside of this? I ask because I've never been able to get my PC to switch on reliably over LAN activity when I want it to for other stuff. Getting it to shutdown remotely was also a mission, but I am guessing this would be easier with the Link cos you can actually see the windows desktop and shutdown from there? It's more the switching on thing I am bothered about, what with being terminally lazy.

2. How much of a phaff is it in practice if your main PC monitor in 2560x1440 resolution and the Link is 1920x1080? Do you have to change settings in game every time you want to use the link, or can the device scale down to 1080p by itself before sending the signal over ethernet, if you leave the res at 1440p? And if it does try to scale down, is the picture actually worse than if natively set to 1080p? What about windows desktop res if left at 2560p, is this an issue?
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1. I always switch on and off via the pc. Haven't tried with the link. I think you can shut down.

2. Link will take care of it. 1440p on pc and then it must scale down. I get great image quality on a 65" tv. I want 4k link now :)
 
im assuming most of u guys who use this have the PC in another room?? if so whats the advantages of this over say a long HDMI lead ( bar 1 less cable )???

im thinking about moving the main PC into the bedroom but having the ability to connect to the big tv in living room for when the children play there games.
 
iamthenugget said:
im assuming most of u guys who use this have the PC in another room?? if so whats the advantages of this over say a long HDMI lead ( bar 1 less cable )???

im thinking about moving the main PC into the bedroom but having the ability to connect to the big tv in living room for when the children play there games.
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I have about 20 metres between my PC and the TV, so power line adapters and Steam Link are perfect. The other thing is I connect all my four controllers to a USB hub that's connected to the Steam Link.
 
RoosterC said:
I have about 20 metres between my PC and the TV, so power line adapters and Steam Link are perfect. The other thing is I connect all my four controllers to a USB hub that's connected to the Steam Link.
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that would have been my next question regarding controllers but thnx for answering that as well.

i guess at £11.99 just now on sale its really a no brainer.

im assuming if i purchase through steam they will deliver direct from uk stock????
 
RoosterC said:
I have about 20 metres between my PC and the TV, so power line adapters and Steam Link are perfect. The other thing is I connect all my four controllers to a USB hub that's connected to the Steam Link.
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Power line adapters didn't work for me. Flat cat7 cabling worked like a charm though.

Interesting about the USB hub.
 
Mine had been great until this week and now I'm getting a stuttering. I think my steam install folder has corrupt or something because steam seems slow to load up on my desktop and it's behaving weird.
 
In case anyone didn't know if you have a 2016 onwards Samsung 4k TV. If you change your region to USA you can download the steam link app and directly run it through the Samsung TV without the box. I believe Xbox 360/One controllers work plugged into the TV too along with Steam controller.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
In case anyone didn't know if you have a 2016 onwards Samsung 4k TV. If you change your region to USA you can download the steam link app and directly run it through the Samsung TV without the box. I believe Xbox 360/One controllers work plugged into the TV too along with Steam controller.
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It is meant to be bringing 4k in the future too. Saying that, it barely handles 1080p at the moment.
 
When I setup my steamlink and paired my PS4 controllers to it, they seem to not be paired with the PS4 anymore. Seems like the pairing info is held on the controller and can only be matched to one device at a time.

It's not a big deal just slightly annoying as we switch between them a lot.
 
Hey guys what would you do, I think I'll sell my Link as I now have direct HDMI and haven't used it for ages! Would you put it in the console or pc section of MM? I'm guessing pc
 
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