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.
    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      9·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • TheDarkKnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        Oh no doubt, Steam Link is super easy to use. Once quality catches up it seriously might become the Stream Deck by default at home.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 years ago

      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?

      • cttttt@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 years ago

        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.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 years 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.

    • Fishbone@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 years ago

      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.

  • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    3 years ago

    Did they fix Remote Play? The change log says they fixed a single issue:

    Remote Play

    Fixed infinite loading animation when streaming from another PC

    There 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.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      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.

  • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    3 years ago

    sit somewhere super comfortable

    They are implying my desk isn’t comfortable.

    How rude.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      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.