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Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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Wife was using the Deck, I wanted to play on the couch, I had to get creative (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love the steam deck, and recently, so does my wife! Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier. And she would find something to play on her switch if I asked for the deck back. But I don't want to stifle this new found love for the deck.

So I decided to get creative. What you're seeing is horizon forbidden West on maximum settings, streaming from my desktop to an over 8 year old Chromebook, with an Xbox controller.

It's honestly pretty good, considering. Every minute or two I get some hitching and stuttering, something to do with the Wi-Fi. Also there's a weird green bar at the bottom I can't seem to remove 🤔 But otherwise it's smooth and clear. Good enough to get me through until we can justify a second Deck 😬

I'm surprised it works at all! But it's steams built in streaming, when the Chromebook steam app 🤷‍♂️

Edit: in case anyone comes by later and wants to know or could find this useful: the Chromebook is an Acer R13 from 2016, mediatek CPU. My wifi is a 1st gen Google WiFi puck. And the stuttering started turning into zero audio at times.

I bought a random $15 gigabit Ethernet USB C adapter with pass through charging, ran cat 6 tm under my couch to where I sit, and now things run 99.9% smooth. Very pleased. This will hold me over until I can justify another steam deck.

Edit 2: I fixed the green bar by realizing I was an idiot. I never looked at my PC when it was streaming, and it was using my crappy secondary display at 1400x900. This Chromebook is 1920x1080, so it was doing weird things. Moved it to my main display at 1080, and now it looks even better, and no more green bar.

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[–] anakin78z 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've done a bit of streaming from my PC to my deck, and I get occasional but noticeable stutter, which I don't understand, because I can stream Xbox game pass perfectly. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

All my stuttering and audio issues went away when I switched to gigabit LAN, FYI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's weird. Just yesterday my stream audio started cutting out randomly. Very very annoying. I've fiddled with the settings, but so far no solution but to wait and hope it stabilizes. And if it doesn't? Sometimes it cuts out completely for 5 or 10 seconds? Restart the stream and it comes back.

If this keeps up I'll have to consider the experience a failure.