Remote Play is amazing, Returnal rendered at 1440p with everything on epic streaming at 90fps with HDR to the OLED deck. This is gonna change my Baldur’s Gate 3 game forever.
How did I not know about this? I considered myself a Deck poweruser.
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Are you sure Steam’s Remote Play is able to stream in HDR? As far as I’m aware it’s SDR only.
Can someone explain to me what it does for the oled like to a 5 year old
Is this native to steam do I have to do anything extra? If I wanted to stream baldurs gate to my deck what steps would I take?
Sorry I am newbie just got my deck yesterday :)
Install BG3 on your desktop, then on the steam deck, go to baldurs gate, and instead of install or play, click on the little array to the right of it. There you should see the name of your desktop pc. Choose it, and play will change to stream. That’s it. If you want to change streaming settings, go to the remote play section in your settings. Disable hardware decoding. Turn on hvec and low latency.
Siiiiick good to know. Thanks
What’s the point of streaming 1440p if the steam deck can only display 800p ?
Downsampling is the best thing you can do for image quality. You can also choose 1440p as the resolution for games in their properties to sometimes massively improve AA, like with Persona 5
I didn’t know that ! I always streamed with the exact same resolution of the screen, gonna try downsampling then
I think my answer wasn’t very clear, I meant that aside from streamin, when running games on the deck directly, you can also choose the resolution the games start in, which enables you to set higher resolutions in game. Some 2D games gains massive benefits from that, because they lose that pixelated look. Rogue Legacy 2 for example at 1920x1200 is way smoother than at 800p.