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[Gamezone]

What's your experience with using it? Is it wired or wireless? Do you feel any latency? And should my controller controller be wired?

 

[Sleepwalker]

Sunshine is better

 

[Gamezone]

Sunshine is better

How come? And is Nvidia GPU required?

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I tried using it out of interest, but I lost interest almost immediately.

 

[Sleepwalker]

How come? And is Nvidia GPU required?

Sunshine is the replacement for moonlight (since nvidia discontinued it) it has better latency and (maybe) resolution.

I have an Nvidia GPU but apparently it works for AMD/Intel as well.

 

[El Muerto]

I use it on a my every pc in my house and it's been fine. There has been several enhancements since the original steam link hardware came out. I use both wired and wireless connections on my pcs. No issues on wired, can play soulslike games fine. Wireless has an occasional hiccup and will need a second to buffer every now and then. Controller wont make a difference if wired or wireless. I use a dualsense over bluetooth and never had issues. Streaming latency varies on network conditions and pc load but never goes past 30ms, averages around 15ms-20ms which is as much latency as having a console go through an hdmi splitter. This pic is the stats on my htpc over an ethernet connection. Expect latency to be higher over wifi. I've used powerline adapters in the past and was getting around 20-40ms.

 

[analog_future]

How come? And is Nvidia GPU required?

Low latency, better support, larger community (for tips and questions and such), more customization, better image quality, you name it.

Years ago it was nVidia only but it's hardware agnostic nowadays.

 

[Sentenza]

What's your experience with using it? Is it wired or wireless? Do you feel any latency? And should my controller controller be wired?

I ignored it for years, but I started using it from time to time to play games from my home gaming PC, streamed to my gym's office PC (which doesn't even have a GPU) when I have some spare time at work.

It's... fine. It's trivially easy to setup, to use and it works more than decently enough.
Then again admittedly I don't use it to play fast paced games (I wouldn't be able to focus on them consistently enough, with people constantly coming in and asking for something), but mostly cozy shit like turn-based tacticals, 4X games, etc.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I love it. I like to sit on my porch and play. It even works well when I'm away from my house. No issues really. I plan to put a TV on my back patio and cast from my iPad
To the TV. It's truly great for a person like me

 

[RoboFu]

it works depending on your device and set up. Wired connection and built in tv app works great. Apple TV works but the " menu " buttons opens the appletv menu so you will have to monkey with it to find an alternative.

 

[poppabk]

What's your experience with using it? Is it wired or wireless? Do you feel any latency? And should my controller controller be wired?

It seems fine but sunshine/moonlight is better so that is what I use.

 

[poodaddy]

I tried it for a bit, but I found it worthless. Even with my Steam Link in the living room and the PC in the office less than a hundred feet away, the signal dropped so consistently and terribly that I couldn't even tolerate playing through turn based RPG's like that. It's weird, I love the Steam Deck, but the link was a huge miss in my eyes.

 

[Dacvak]

Holy shit I just remembered I bought a Steam Link like ten years ago

 

[nikos]

I've tried it a couple of times over the years but never cared for it.

That said, I just briefly tested streaming Metaphor to my Steam Deck and it seemed to work perfectly. I'm close to my router, so I'll have to test it in another area, but I might actually end up using it a lot more often.

EDIT: If this is referring to Steam Link hardware, I've never tried it.

 

[WaterOnix]

I use mine all the time and it works great wired. Never noticed any problems using a wireless controller. However, wireless was a subpar experience and only worked well with slower-paced games, ideally something turn-based.

 

[Gamezone]

I use it on a my every pc in my house and it's been fine. There has been several enhancements since the original steam link hardware came out. I use both wired and wireless connections on my pcs. No issues on wired, can play soulslike games fine. Wireless has an occasional hiccup and will need a second to buffer every now and then. Controller wont make a difference if wired or wireless. I use a dualsense over bluetooth and never had issues. Streaming latency varies on network conditions and pc load but never goes past 30ms, averages around 15ms-20ms which is as much latency as having a console go through an hdmi splitter. This pic is the stats on my htpc over an ethernet connection. Expect latency to be higher over wifi. I've used powerline adapters in the past and was getting around 20-40ms.

Is that 8.6 ms latency?

 

[El Muerto]

Yes, for the video. Standard HDMI produces about 5ms of latency every hop. So really not that bad.

 

[Firestone]

I use it to stream my gaming/ private PC from the basement to my office upstairs. Nvidia GPU installed, Steam link with Moonlight App. Also have a Nvidia shield with Moonlight in my living room, but Steam Link allows to use Windows + hotkeys while Android devives like the shield recognize "win key* as home button.

 

[ChoosableOne]

Everyone praises sunshine but it was worse for me. I tried them on ipad, phone and very very old linux pc, and steam link app worked better than sunshine. Maybe I couldn't set it up right idk. Host has a 3060ti on it.

I'm very sensitive to input lag but even Sf 6 was playable with a wireless connection(1080p, 2,4ghz - 50 mbit down/20 up). I didn't play with it for hours so I can't say anything about drops or lag spikes but it will probably be ok for turn based games. Graphics are less shiny but I can live with it.

 

[RCX]

Sunshine + moonlight works great for me.

As long as the host machine is using ethernet. Can't speak to a wireless connection.

 

[Gamezone]

I use it on a my every pc in my house and it's been fine. There has been several enhancements since the original steam link hardware came out. I use both wired and wireless connections on my pcs. No issues on wired, can play soulslike games fine. Wireless has an occasional hiccup and will need a second to buffer every now and then. Controller wont make a difference if wired or wireless. I use a dualsense over bluetooth and never had issues. Streaming latency varies on network conditions and pc load but never goes past 30ms, averages around 15ms-20ms which is as much latency as having a console go through an hdmi splitter. This pic is the stats on my htpc over an ethernet connection. Expect latency to be higher over wifi. I've used powerline adapters in the past and was getting around 20-40ms.

No hiccups on my wireless after testing. But you need a router with a dedicated band. I'm using the 6ghz band, so no congestion at all.