Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck
Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck
After recently releasing a big Stable Steam Client update for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, I highlighted that Remote Play was broken on Steam Deck - and so Valve has now fixed it.
Does Sunshine/Moonlight still blow Steam Remote Play out of the water or does this bring them up to par?
My understanding is that sunshine/moonlight has better quality still.
The built-in steam game streaming has better steam UI integration though, and is available without installing any additional software.
What specifically is better? These are just clients for the Streaming that Steam provides, right? They don’t actually swap out the “server” side, right?
They're completely different implementations of systems that steam video/audio/inputs.
Valve's is pretty buggy but has deep integration with Steam and allow NAT traversal, while Sunshine/Moonlight are way more reliable, have features that reduce latency but are pretty barebones as far as features: they just do streaming with no tight integration with what's being streamed.
And Sunshine is a reverse engineered version of Nvidia's game stream server, since Nvidia sunset Gamestream a few months ago.
Moonlight is Nvidia game stream so it'll be using the Nvidia server or sunshine which implements the Nvidia game stream protocol for AMD/Intel/Nvidia server hardware.
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I only know it as moonlight (been a while since I used it). What's the Sunshine component?
As an aside, Moonlight was incredible. Used it to play PSO2 on my phone when I was a few hundred miles away visiting a friend.
sit somewhere super comfortable
They are implying my desk isn't comfortable.
How rude.
It's not comfortable if you've been sitting there working for the past ~8 hours. I know a lot of people with computer-based jobs prefer playing games in different rooms of the house so that they can do something besides sit in front of their computer.
Amongst other factors, it's one of the causes of the whole "I'm finally an adult, I spent a lot of time and money building my PC gaming setup... yet I don't game, I just stare at my Steam library and that's somehow it".
To anyone feeling this, try using Steam Link or Sunshine/Moonlight to stream to your TV if you have one. You get the old sitting in the couch with a big screen feeling of a console, but with all the benefits of your PC.
^^ It’s me, he’s talking about me and my tribe of people!
Did they fix Remote Play? The change log says they fixed a single issue:
Remote Play Fixed infinite loading animation when streaming from another PCThere are many issues that have been introduced since release of the steam deck.
I'd like to be able to use the steam overlay while remote play is running.
That was the biggest issue with it, that wasn't letting people use remote play at all.
As far as I know other issues with it are still around.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Initially putting out a quick Beta update, and then very shortly after putting it into Stable so all users will be able to update now and have working Remote Play.
I've tested it across a couple titles from my desktop Linux PC to the Steam Deck, and yup — visual, audio and input are all working properly with no more infinite Steam loading screen.
Fixed the 'Verifying Installation' message incorrectly showing on every startup.
Fixed infinite loading animation when streaming from another PC
Nice to see Valve get such a big feature fixed up, still a shame to see the initial update rolled out with it broken though.
This is great, as Remote Play is such an incredibly useful feature for when you want to run some bigger games smoother on Steam Deck and you have a PC, so you can sit somewhere super comfortable and just stream it instead of sitting at a desk.
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