I have a gaming pc with a 4090 in the other room. I never really stream to the deck, but I’m wondering if that’s how I should be playing the games all the time?
Would it make a big difference with the 90hz OLED steam deck?
This is the main way I use my 4090 tbh and It’s fantastic to play ultra settings on the deck.
Make sure your router and desktop have WiFi 6e and it’s very smooth. I don’t have many issues playing games like Elden ring or destiny but your mileage may very.
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If you’re going to stream from your 4090 to your deck and dock it to the TV, why would you not just plug the 4090 rig into the TV? You’re just adding latency.
This also. My rig is in the room above the home theater, so hdmi directly to it. Other TVs use the moonlight app, and the deck is used to stream when TVs are not available or I am watching TV and gaming at the same time.
Depends. It’s a decent brand of adult diapers.
Depends if you pay the electricity bill :)
The value of the use case depends, in theory it should be better and any 5-25ms delay is justifiable if the game looks nicer, runs at 90fps, and is not making your battery die in 80 minutes. I havent tried moonlight before but Steam streaming and also PS5 remote play work decently well. PS5 remote play is not something that I use because of a lack of native linux support, its hard to get a high quality low latency set up even with a good connection
My PC is on ethernet, my steam deck wifi.
If i’m playing at home, i’m streaming from my PC using Moonlight. There’s no reason not to IMO. No latency, better graphics, less heat, less battery usage.
This all depends on your connection of course. I have gigabit which helps.
Except for HDR !
All I want for Christmas is moonlight to support HDR on the OLED deck
I agree, although I think there are valid reasons not to sometimes.
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Power consumption, the deck might not use a lot of current but the 4090 will for sure haha
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Slightly less straightforward, you need to care about streaming resolution, active display, hdr (deactivating it usually) and stuff like that
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Some games might not have cloud saves and that means you’ll have to choose between local or streaming (or setup some kind of sync yourself)
imo it’s worth it but I also enjoy the process so I’m biased. I always find it magical to be able to do that.
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Agree, I pretty much exclusively stream if I’m at home. I leave my PC on 24/7 for jellyfin anyways so connecting to moonlight is perfect for me 100% of the time. It’s incredible how much better moonlight feels than steam remote play on my network. It’s like magic
Best reason not to is you can’t suspend/resume when streaming. And also streaming can be really finicky.
Have 4090 also. I used it to stream via moonlight (using gamestream) it worked out great on the oled. Plan to stream the heavy hitter games that can’t get me 45+ fps.
I live in a small studio apartment with 2 Amazon Eero mesh routers at a 500mbps download speed.
Streaming with Moonlight off my 3060ti desktop is absolutely incredible. I cannot perceive any latency and only have to deal with very rare hitches. I tested RDR2, Control, and FO76 over the weekend with this setup and I’m shocked at how well it works. The games run at 90fps/high settings with 1440p downscaled to 720p on the Deck. Looks and runs beautiful, especially for RDR2.
The input latency improvements due to the new OLED display are a massive improvement over the LCD and this translates very well for streaming.
I also got Moonlight to talk to Playnite so I can launch Playnite from my Deck and have every single installed game on my desktop PC from any storefront ready to stream within 15 seconds. It also works for streaming emulated games.
My 2 cents, if your internet is good and you are using the Deck at home there is absolutely no reason to not play pretty much everything streamed.
Minor correction: if your intranet is good. Your internet speeds don’t mean anything other than for downloading the games.
Poor networking knowledge here. I have the tplink ax3000 mesh system set up as APs. Is this good enough intranet lol
I’m actually only very surface level knowledgeable with networking. I will say that you have a Wifi 6 router so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t pretty decent.
If you are waiting on a Deck, try the Steam Link app on your phone and just see how it is from PC. If it works great for the phone, bet it works great for the deck!
internet too. i take my steam deck to my friends house and stream my home pc to the deck on a tv stream at 4k 60.
I’m planning on streaming when home, and using the synced cloud saves for my commute.
It’s a win win.
I only do for game that actually make a difference, but even using steam link i haven’t really gotten that much lag.
I do this OP. I personally find that moonlight / sunshine work significantly better than steam remote play but this could be purely anecdotal. I also have barely noticable latency.
I work from home and sometimes I just don’t wanna sit at my desk any longer after sitting there all day. I’m in an apartment so I don’t have the luxury yet of having an office that I can decouple from my gaming setup.
I will say tho, if you can play a game native on your deck do it. But when you wanna crank things to the max, go for the remote play.
Ive been playing cyberpunk maxed out on a 7950x3d / 4090 streaming to my deck oled and I couldn’t be happier.
I want to do this, why do you have to run sunshine and moonlight combo?
I’ve been holding off on Moonlight for my OLED for now, mostly out of laziness. But I’m curious, have they added the ability to stream in HDR for the OLED decks yet?
Not yet, devs have confirmed they’re looking into it though
How’s the audio through moonlight?
No complaints. Maybe the occasional hiccup where its a little bit distorted for a second but its not that common
I bought the deck for the primary reason of streaming from my rig, but since I travel, having games that run on the deck is great. Also, I get a lot of games through game pass which streams well. Visually, it will look better as you can run the game on the rig on ultra, configure moonlight to stream at 1080p, and it will look awesome on the oled screen. Maybe not 90hz, but good enough for something that small.
I will say tho, if you can play a game native on your deck do it. But when you wanna crank things to the max, go for the remote play.
This is basically my thought process as well. If the game can run well on deck, indie, and platformer games, I’ll run from the deck. If the game is large, 80+gb, or very demanding, AAA, then ill stream it.
I am one of those people who is very sensitive to latency/input lag. There simply isn’t any when streaming from my 4090 hardwired PC. It’s amazing honestly
Streaming performance is kinda shite. It’s better if you use Sunshine to stream from your PC but even with the latency being brought down to almost unnoticeable levels the artifacting is still pretty wicked. It really depends on what you can tolerate and what is or isn’t a deal-breaker to you. To me, personally, I’m so unsatisfied with my deck’s performance that I invested in a nerdy gamer battlestation for my couch and take a minute or two to carry my PC into the living room. But then I can be a stickler when it comes to fidelity and I most definitely am a stickler when it comes to a non-negotiable 60FPS.
Yes, do what you want. I work from home, most times I don’t want to game where I work. So I stream my 3080 to my Deck all the time, plus I like sitting on the couch and not my desk chair. The 4090 will be there when it’s needed for a bigger screen experience.
Just play the deck, and enjoy the savings on your power bill.