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I can't speak for the streaming stability. But the drivers of the wifi adapter on the OLED are rubbish. It is bad at switching to the fastest AP.

For me it favored a WIFI5 AP over 2 Wifi 6 AP's which had much higher throughputs and would not switch AP when moving around properly, would have to turn wifi on/off to force it to connect to a different one, basically the algorithm was written by an imbecile.
I had to rename one of my AP's for it to properly stay on the faster AP's. It would honestly pick an AP on a different floor that would give only ****** 20-30 mbit throughput over a wifi 6 AP on the same floor that would give 600+ mbit throughput.

It handles a multi AP network (with same SSID) terribly, and the people responsible should be ashamed.
 
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snowdog said:
I can't speak for the streaming stability. But the drivers of the wifi adapter on the OLED are rubbish. It is bad at switching to the fastest AP.

For me it favored a WIFI5 AP over 2 Wifi 6 AP's which had much higher throughputs and would not switch AP when moving around properly, would have to turn wifi on/off to force it to connect to a different one, basically the algorithm was written by an imbecile.
I had to rename one of my AP's for it to properly stay on the faster AP's. It would honestly pick an AP on a different floor that would give only ****** 20-30 mbit throughput over a wifi 6 AP on the same floor that would give 600+ mbit throughput.

It handles a multi AP network (with same SSID) terribly, and the people responsible should be ashamed.
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Yeah it is bad. I know what you mean. I had to bind the Mac address of my deck to my (usually) closer AP
 
Looking to buy steam deck to remote play games on my home network. I've got 7800x3d and 7900xt on my pc, just wondering if anybody has experience in remote play using these specs.....should performance be good. Thanks in advance :)
 
snowdog said:
I can't speak for the streaming stability. But the drivers of the wifi adapter on the OLED are rubbish. It is bad at switching to the fastest AP.
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This causes concerns for me as WiFi stability is critical for someone like me who plans to use the steam deck to stream as it's primary use.
 
If you have control of the APs some report better stability when using non-DFS channels and 80MHz channel widths.

Quick google shows some have swapped the chip out too for Intel. Bit of a nuclear option… At least Valve may have an idea of what they could improve in Deck v2…
 
oggiet said:
Looking to buy steam deck to remote play games on my home network. I've got 7800x3d and 7900xt on my pc, just wondering if anybody has experience in remote play using these specs.....should performance be good. Thanks in advance :)
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Certainly good. I stream with a 5800x and gtx1080. You can always try the steam link app on your phone to get an idea if you're likely to have any network issues.
 
oggiet said:
Looking to buy steam deck to remote play games on my home network. I've got 7800x3d and 7900xt on my pc, just wondering if anybody has experience in remote play using these specs.....should performance be good. Thanks in advance :)
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I've got the same specs and will test for you later. Quote reply me if I forget. :)
 
Remote play works fine for the few games I have tried, I've been streaming to both my Deck as well as my Shield pro (in 4k) with older hardware in the past (8700k and 2080) ad wel as current setup (8700k + 4080S).

The question is why, playing games on deck directly is much more responsive (as it lacks a few ms input and streaming lag)... I can imagine storage is a limiting factor as the 1-3tb max for a deck is very limiting.
Streaming barely noticeable performance wise if you have enough gpu wiggleroom to spare, but for fast paced games (roguelikes, fighting) I don't see the point. The deck runs most titles fine.

I did stream some non steam games as well which worked fine.
 
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Streaming with steam is slightly laggy but using something like moonlight/Apollo is much more responsive as long as your network can handle it.

The benefit for me to stream is vastly increased visual quality and battery life.
 
As above, I found Moonlight to be far less laggy/stuttery than the inbuilt Steam remote play option in the one game I have experimented with, which was Battletech. I haven't tried any other games on remote as I was just testing, but I did think of one thing which may or may not become a ball ache if using Moonlight as the "non steam game" way of getting remote access to a dedicated PC, which was how you would go about having separate Deck control setups for different streamed games, if it was all going through Moonlight. As far as I could tell when I tested it, you open Moonlight as a non steam game in game mode, then load the game on the actual PC and it just remote plays. Like would the Steamdeck just see you opening Moonlight, as far as selecting a control scheme, and not the game you actually will be streaming? So you would end up having to phaff about somehow selecting control schemes manually after the game has loaded etc? It would be useful if anyone who uses Moonlight with several games could say if custom control schemes are automatically tied to the games that you stream?
 
oggiet said:
You're a star, thank you !!!
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First game I tried was Kingdom Come Deliverance 2; the game loaded ok but my steam deck couldn't control the game.

The second game I tried was Witcher 3; I could control the game but the menu image froze on the screen and I had to hard reset the Deck.

Verdict: it's pish
 
Dirk Diggler said:
First game I tried was Kingdom Come Deliverance 2; the game loaded ok but my steam deck couldn't control the game.

The second game I tried was Witcher 3; I could control the game but the menu image froze on the screen and I had to hard reset the Deck.

Verdict: it's pish
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Ah that sucks. Thank you for your help anyways !
 
Bubo said:
As above, I found Moonlight to be far less laggy/stuttery than the inbuilt Steam remote play option in the one game I have experimented with, which was Battletech. I haven't tried any other games on remote as I was just testing, but I did think of one thing which may or may not become a ball ache if using Moonlight as the "non steam game" way of getting remote access to a dedicated PC, which was how you would go about having separate Deck control setups for different streamed games, if it was all going through Moonlight. As far as I could tell when I tested it, you open Moonlight as a non steam game in game mode, then load the game on the actual PC and it just remote plays. Like would the Steamdeck just see you opening Moonlight, as far as selecting a control scheme, and not the game you actually will be streaming? So you would end up having to phaff about somehow selecting control schemes manually after the game has loaded etc? It would be useful if anyone who uses Moonlight with several games could say if custom control schemes are automatically tied to the games that you stream?
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This is the easiest solution for the deck.
github.com

GitHub - FrogTheFrog/moondeck: A plugin that makes it easier to manage your gamestream sessions from the SteamDeck.

A plugin that makes it easier to manage your gamestream sessions from the SteamDeck. - FrogTheFrog/moondeck
github.com github.com
Basically you need a launch shortcut for each game to have separate steam input controller configurations.
This solves that along with integrating quite nicely into the UI. You can get it using the decky plugin loader.
 
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I'm using apollo / moonlight to stream games that don't run well enough on the SD natively (FF7Remake was great native, but FF7Rebirth is a step too far so stream).

LCD model here and not noticing any issues at all, and although not quite as twitchy as say a dark souls, FF7Rebirth is pretty action orientated, and I haven't noticed game breaking input lag etc.
 
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