How to optimize Steam Remote Play (Host/client settings explained, 2022)
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2022
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Thanks for the experience, it has been incredible. I was trying to fix blackscreens and input lags on my Smart-TV for so long. Now it's finally smooth
Great to hear!
Downloaded the steam link app on my smart tv last night and got steam going! Super excited! I noticed while playing some lag and connection/buffering issues appearing in the bottom right hand corner from time to time. This morning watched this video and tweaked some things. Hoping this makes it smoother and more enjoyable! Thanks for this video!
Awesome video Mike! I’ve been testing steamlink the last few days to prep for a move in a few months where I’d have my PC downstairs and my target TV upstairs so I’m using a raspberry pi and I was thinking of getting a mesh router for both floors so I can wire up the Pi and my main rig to both nodes that can hopefully communicate over the mesh routers WiFi 6 (not ideal I know but I figured neither of those devices support WiFi 6 so I thought this was a decent workaround to get WiFi 6 speeds)
What do you think? Think it would be decent quality?
Great explanations and very easy to follow. Thank you
Thanks Mike, great and simple explanation! Streaming to a Chromebook, got a significantly better performance! Wouldn't stream an FPS game, but you just brought Elden Ring to my couch. Bless you!!
Nice! Great to hear!
@@MikeTheTech How can I uncap fps or let it run at 120?
I’ll try to let you know how this works on airplane wifi
Pin this 😂
Thank you for sharing, I was looking into Steam Remote Play to my Nvidia Shield TV. I didn't what settings to use, but now I do. Thanks again.
Glad I could help!
Thanks Mike,you fixed my Steam link crash with your explanatory video. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When i tell it to change the desktop resolution to match the streaming device (in this case the steam deck) it sets it to 960x540 instead of 1280x800. If i turn that off, then i get a bunch of options in the game to set to resolution to, but none of them are 1280x800 even though its added as a custom resolution in the nvidia control panel settings.
Thanks for the video! It fixed a lot of hiccuping and random downscaling.
Great to hear!
Thanks bro for the tutorial! 😊 ♥️
Hello, when I play remotely, and do a double click, or click a little fast, it stops the streaming, any idea why? Thanks
When i have the performanceloverlay on detailed everything is fine but if i change it to Symbols or disabled the stream starts stuttering an lagging. Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix this?
This helped a ton!!!! Thank you!
hey i know its late but my friend is seeing the game i downloaded from the steam and not the one i want to stream which is pes 19 i followed all the steps but it doesnt works any solution?
Im trying to play Panoptic using steam remote play. Problem is, when I open up the game via steam vr, I am no longer to use steam overlay by pressing shift tab on my keyboard. Does anyone know a way around this or what I can do please?
Thank you very much. Is it possible to only show the gameplay on the phone screen and use the PC to work on something else?
I'm using steam link on nvidea shield pro... everything is wired connection I've got a 3090 an i7 etc pc is fine but the app I'm using wireless mouse and keyboard playing DDs and the mouse like jumps and lags game streams fine its just the mouse control... any ideas
I have a gig internet speed, My pc is connected to Ethernet, but my nvidia sheild is not. The only way I can I wire it is to drill a hole through wall which I can’t do in my apartment. Should I just run the shield/steam link wireless?
I am having this issue where it says host is busy input is disabled when my friend tries to join do you know a fix?
Do these settings affect Remote Play Together streaming as well?
Great Video! Thank You!!! I have a question, do you know if its possible to play more than 4 players at the same time in Steam, but in the same TV? For example: Fifa, or maybe Smack Down (Royal Rumble or Money in the bank) the thing is always I play with friends one of us have to wait to play beacuse the maximun of possible players are just 4... There is a way to play all of us? Thank You!!!
Fun fact you can run steam remote & moonlight-sunshine over a Lan connection with zero outside network.
Purely off router speed.
Works great imo.
Thanks for the advice! Much appreciated!
You bet!
Thank you!!!! Fixed my audio
If I'm remote playing a game with 4 other friends that don't have the game, what can help their connection with me?
Appreciate it man, thank you.
The cough at 6:10ish mark just blow my eardrums out. Dr. Says The ringing is normal now
lol! My bad. I usually try to catch those in editing. 😅
Thank you so much! You solved a problem I was having with the client display resolution, even with the "change to client's resolution enabled"
Hi bro. In the settings, I set the bitrate to 75 mgb, as a result, it does not rise above 55-57. The Internet allows it. The gigabit router is also. Both devices are connected - directly by Lan cable. The speed at the rate of 1GB. . What could be the problem?
p.s. I use online English translators. Sorry for the spelling mistakes.
Bro, i was playing with my girl and to one day from other the remote play simply stopped at all. I tried so many things, turn off/on twice, even restarting my pc, and she stills not able to play, because there's a f**k black screen in her phone, we tried everything to solve this. I tried with me phone, and worked perfectly, can it be some unstable servers from steam? It's happenning the most expected event that is the Summer sale, that's a thing to consider. Can you have some explanation to this? I'm feeling very sad that i can't play with her... :(
Hey mike, is there a way to stream the sound on both host/receiver?
There is an option in Steam Big Picture under Remote settings labeled "Enable sound on host” or something similar, that would be what you're looking for. It enables sound on both client and host.
Hi there, I'm trying this from my pc to my TV (google tv) and no matter what settings I try, I get a flicker (black screen) at about 10 seconds. Any idea what could be triggering this?
I think it might be the hardware because remote play sucks on my Chromecast but is perfect on my smartphone
Anyone got a fix for no audio coming through?
Can we bypass having to use the internet at all and just have it work via the LAN network?
Thx, gonna try this when home
Hey I'm trying to play rain world with my friend but on his screen the entire game is just white Can you help me in this?
I appreciate a good tutorial. I recently got a steam link in a trade and I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it works. Even steam link to my phone runs really well without any optimizations.
Thank you Mike!
You bet!
how do yoyuu stop it from dropping the game all together?
Super useful thanks man
Glad to hear it!
How to remove the black bars on mobile while playing steam link
Playing Hogwarts and when I steam link it, the audio kinda repeats itself..any fix?
What is this steam remote play error reference library code
I have the framerate set to 120 cause my phone is 120hz but it doesnt look smooth unlike moonlight which is smooth but i want to use steam link so i can use cellular when im in town and want to play pc games
fixed mine, had nothing to do with any of this. See the steam host, settings are MB/s and the stream device is in Mb/s. If you set the host device to 50MB/s its looking to stream at a rate of 400Mb/s minimum! This was my problem. I turned it down to 10MB/s fixed everything. Hope that helps!
Hey Mike, thanks for this full in depth guide. But I have a question regarding my situation which is quite unique. My gaming PC which has a AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4500. 32gbram DDR5 ram. MSI 8GB D6 RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2 connected to my monitor which is capapble of running my 4k 144hz Nvidea Gsync monitor with optional VRR support connected with hdmi 2.1 for VRR trough G sync with a full 1gbit ethernet connection to the pc. I want to use my pc to stream steam games to my Apple TV 4k 3rd gen which can run at a max of 60fps at 4k at full RGB or YCBCR 4:4:4. At SDR or HDR and Dolby Vision. The apple tv id connnected to has the same 1gbit ethernet connection trough Lan. What I wanna do is. Use the steam link app on my apple TV connected to the monitor I usually use for my gaming PC itself. I also have a new 4k Sony Bravia TV also capable of running 144hz and VRR and if connected to my pc directly it should not bottle neck the stream specwise I think. But in my case I want my pc to be the host of the stream. And send it to my apple TV which is limited at 60fps 4k on HDR and Dolby Vision as normaly SDR.
So here comes my question:
What is better for me?
Connect the apple TV to my sony bravia and where both devices have also a Dolby Vision availiablity at 60fps at 4k. And use that as the reciever of my gaming pc with the steam link as host which has a monitor connected with the same specs as my TV if not even better. Or do it the other way around. Plugging my PC via Hdmi 2.1 to my TV and use that as host for my Stream. And then use my apple TV which I then can Use with my orginal gaming Pc monitor to recieve te stream from my pc connected to my Sony Bravia TV.
I am freshly new to this and all my displaying gear is bought on PS5 compatiablity. But because PC Mastersce I ditched the PS5 for a better PC. But sometimes I just wanna lay in bed or on the couch and game my steam games instead of sitting behind my desk. Is there any tips you’re willing and be aible to give me on this. m
So PC to TV as Host for the apple Tv Connected trough a Monitor with the same specs which wont bottleneck if im right. Or the other way around. PC to my monitor and then use the TV as a reciever via the apple TV. Which also gives me an extra oppurtinuty to use my sound system via EArc trough the TV. So I’m kinda stuck here what is best for the lazy on the couch game mood. I have the gear. But not the knowledge. Hope you can help. Kind regards
Sjoerd Henderickx :)
Thanks in advance and You have a new subscriber thanks to this video :)
Edit: I have a Xbox One Series X and a Dualsense Ps5 controller to game on the device streamed to
You deserve a like and a subscription!
Thanks for the like & sub!
Still doesn't work for me... I have like 1 or 2 second input delay and it's a slideshow. No idea why.
When I play on yuzu with two controlls (one on My Mobile)
The emulator runs on 45fps ,anyone can help me?
Try to disable the decoding option and see if you can see improvement in details and performance.
i was hoping the newer video maybe had more info but sadly i guess i will just have to play from bed with my sound coming from the tv in the other room... not sure why that setting won't work but its dumb.
If this is for steam deck, all you gotta do is change the settings-audio-output to the audio device/controller you’re using
In sudan we have a very very bad internet iam taking kb/s internet speed
If i had steam deck can i stream games installed on it to my android smartphone using home network ?
I have redmagic 8 pro gaming phone with gamepad amoled screen is more attractive than steam deck ips
need an update video for this with the completely overhauled steam UX / UI
Jesus 99.2% are not subscribed. I subbed just by seeing that.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Same, some other useful videos on this channel as well
When use steam link PC to other room, the internet generally ok, but my Apple TV down and useless internet via wifi 5g and 2.5g 😢, but all the wired devices work internet ok.
Hello, is there a way to fix the stuttering present on many devices? My framerate dips below 60.
Related to GPU power and network speed.
@@MikeTheTech What about an Nvidia shield?
It’s about the host machine.
If you play at home you don't need to limit the bandwith, it should be able to handle 1GB connection over cable, if your wifi router is from atleast 4 years old it should also be able to handle the same speeds over Wifi 6
IF you remote play from home on a bad internet you want to limit the speed to fairly low, mainly to avoid stuttering lag and Delays where the game freezes or bugs out. it allows for a more seamless gameplay.
Not just about bandwidth, but quality as well. It’s much harder for a computer to maintain a 50MB/s data stream over a 10MB/s data stream. Meaning even with a great connection, latency and lag will come from frame timing and the GPU trying to keep up. For both the host and client. If you keep the bitrate low though, it won’t hit the bandwidth cap either way.
@@MikeTheTech You can't edit the bitrate, and the bit rate just handles the amount of pixels it can decipher, and that won't cause lag, it will just make the screen very blurry
I'm playing remotely with no lag, the only noticeable issue have been
Unless you have 12 year old Ethernet cables you will be capable of at least 250 MB data if you use Cat 5, Cat6 cables can handle 1GB/s, most routers should output 650 MB/s with Firewall and AV protection locally with no problem. The problem comes with Wifi 5 because tehy can't output that high of speed, but Wifi 6 can, but even then it should prove no issue.
With those speeds you should be able to play remotely with no input lag or delay
It's not really about hitting the Bandwith cap because you wont hit it unless the hardware is old, very old. You should be able to play Locally with no issues.
I'm being able to play with no issues on a 20MB/s remotely capping at 3.5MB/s bandwidth
Also over LAN/Local you should not have any data stream delays unless you have a poor optimisation or connect remotely through a VPN or Gateway that re-route your traffic..
Thanks life saver! (Audio)
Hay. Remote Play together seems to stream not just the game but everything. Problem is that the sound is doubled for the friend you play with. So when you use Discord or Teamspeak it doubles the voice. It is like an echo. Any ideas how to avoid this?
Disable 1 of the software mics. You'd want to disable it in retroarch settings, but one could alternatively disable the discord mic.
thank you!!
Welcome!
Hi, in at a loss here. I really need help.
I have an ultra wide monitor as my main on my PC (Samsung odyssey). When I try to steamlink to my tablet, I changed the setting and the steam menus are correctly synced in resolution on my wide monitor and my tablet, but when I start a game, the games automatically change to my ultra wide monitor resolution. I feel like I have tried everything, even limiting the game's resolution on start up, but it keep doing it. Can someone help me?
I’ve got a video on using a virtual display for this purpose.
@@MikeTheTech Thanks for that. I have another question. How will I make the virtual monitor the primary when streaming on steam link, but still keep my wide as primary when gaming on my PC?
Unfortunately that’s a bit more complicated. I would consider making a script that disables the virtual monitor when you start gaming on main. Then reenable it when you leave.
@@MikeTheTech can you show me how to do that?
Yeah. In that video I show two scripts. One to add the screen and one to remove it. To make these into a file you can run, paste it into notepad, save the file, turn off the file type filter, and name it “add screen.bat”. Bat files can be run by double clicking them or even running them through Sunshine.
6:00 my ears go dying fr
😅 my bad
We have the same glasses frame xD
Does Steam link use download speed or upload?
Your gaming computer uploads while your handheld device downloads
I know this is a year old, but as I understand it the "NVFBC" capture isn't something that should ALWAYS be on if you have an Nvidia GPU. The big boys on the internet sandbox said it's some sort of deprecated function which you can use as an option, and perhaps best to leave it disabled unless you run into issues.
Hi, I'm translating through a translator, I'm from Russia hello.
I wanted to know, and as quickly as possible, I can use the steam remote setting via family, it's just that the game was bought on another account, I don't know what to do, maybe I'm doing something wrong
I live in the country and have Verizon Business LTE internet. Everything runs at 45MBPS except Steam downloads. The steam Download use to run at that also but has slowed to KBPS, I've called and I am not being throttled (They say) and the internet speed test is solid but I cant get steam to do anything but KB
Try downloading using a vpn like nordlynx. This will help tell if it’s being throttled by the isp. Could also be router QoS settings.
@@MikeTheTech I am using a Gten 4 R series LTE Modem/router i think it is a combo but only has one cat 5 slot in the back which i have connected to my Gaming PC and I have my PS4 set up wireless. I dont think this one has a QoS. everything runs great at great speeds and I can play games with a ping of 35 MS and no lag BUT I can't download steam games because the connection goes down to 10KBPS and after I reset the Gten it will go back to 45MBPS but a little while later it is slowed back to KB. I've called the IP and they said they have no idea why this is happening.
ALSO........Thank you for the reply, very kind.
Steam Deck does not have those options 😢
thank you so much my man. Respect
I have set all the settings as described and I can't get a 4K resolution on my 4K tv. Host: 1080p, Client: 4K TV. Is that even possible? GPU: RTX 2080 super.
You need a monitor or virtual monitor that supports 4K to render to. Otherwise it will be up scaled 1080p. I have a video on creating a virtual display.
@@MikeTheTech Thanks for the quick response and the solution 👏🏼
Sure thing! Good luck. 👍
i cant full screen on my s22ultra i have these big black bars
You have to create a custom resolution that matches your phone
Settings is not there for me
I don't know where it is
i was having unexplainable bugs... UPDATE YOUR DRIVERSS PPL IT HELPS
that cough was loud as hell lol
haha. My bad. Missed that edit. 😅
Subbed
Thanks for the sub!
Is possible connecting 2 computers over the countries and play ?
Yup. Lag might be an issue, depending on the type of game, so you’ll need to have super fast internet or use lower res/fps settings, but it will work.
@@MikeTheTech thanks for your response, I try yesterday to conect but can't see my pc in nvidia shield TV pro
I open the ports I both routhers
I really want to play world of warcraft but with nvidia games happens the same, I can see my pc but can't connect
Try updating both video drivers or disabling hardware acceleration. The computers might not support it.
35 seconds in, just subscribed. Dunno if this is usefull or not. I reckon it is, having skimmed, some of the comments. But the facts presented that 98 - 99% of people who'll watch this, maybe even benefit from it. Dus is the point of the video, to improve your experience. I think we owe the creator, this much atleast.
Gonna watch the rest of video now, hopefully it'll improve my experience with remote play. Thank you, for taking your time to create this video, and help out fellow gamers. 🙏☀️
Thank you so much for the sub and the kind words. Much appreciated!
gotta love shitty rounding on YT's part, 100.1% is a kinda... high total
the most important is to use wifi 6 router not 5 for better connection bandwidth...
Not just the router, you’d need compatible hardware on each device as well as a nearly perfect unobstructed view to avoid latency, but the speed would definitely be there.
What's the point of streaming the game if you need an ethernet cable?
Playing high end games from your gaming PC on every other PC in the house (or outside the house)? You don't need an Ethernet cable, but your experience won't be as good.
@@MikeTheTech If if you have a machine that can run the game why not play on that machine? And if you're going to run an ethernet cable why not just run an HDMI cable and skip the whole streaming part?
Can’t run an hdmi cable to your phone. Can’t run an hdmi cable past like 40-50ft without expensive signal boosters. Maybe you’re just not the target audience?
@@MikeTheTech No the point is that streaming should work wirelessly
Again, it does. Lol
BRO I LIKED THE VID DON'T GET ME WRONG BUT MAN YOU GOT A NEGATIVE K.D
Negative KD?
@@MikeTheTech basically you sub unsub ratio is not that good.... hoping for the best for you tho! (kd= kill death ratio)
@lxru1824 ahhh ok, I get it now. Lol. If my actual in-game K/D was that bad I'd cry. 😂
This channel used to have thousands of views but the most recent one has 12 views. How?
My tutorial videos tend to get a lot of views, but once the issue is fixed there’s rarely a reason to return unfortunately. My non tutorial videos don’t get nearly as many views.
90% of my traffic comes from search.
Fanks
only 450Mb?? omg how do you live?? 4k is 10000000000000bitsper second?
It’s really not though.
Neckbeards.
Tf
Must have been describing himself.
Pretty cute for a "neckbeard" imo.. smash fo' sho'..
In sudan we have a very very bad internet iam taking kb/s internet speed
If i had steam deck can i stream games installed on it to my android smartphone using home network ?
I have redmagic 8 pro gaming phone with gamepad amoled screen is more attractive than steam deck ips