Steam link review1/16/2024 ![]() Steam Link is designed to take advantage of the horsepower you already have in your home, streaming from your current gaming computer by mirroring its experience to your TV. All that’s left to do is grab your favorite controller, kick back, and enjoy your collection of games from the comfort of your couch. Just connect your Steam Link to your TV and home network, where it will automatically discover any computer running Steam. Then grab a controller and play your collection of games from the comfort of your couch. ![]() Something off with that one.Play your Steam games on any TV in the house with Steam Link. Works on my PC, and other game audio is ok. Side note - I could not get audio from Warhammer 40k : Mechanicus AT ALL, I don't know why. All you'll be doing is wasting hours tinkering with your setup to get it working right. But once I got it all working it seemed to be smoother and better than I remember the old Steam Link device.Īnyway, check it out. Yeah, its 1080p, but for a game of this type it doesn't matter. No way was I going to set my global desktop settings on the PC down to 1080p, so you have to do it for EACH game which kinda sucks, but you only have to do it once.Īll said and done, I was finally able to play Yakuza 0 over Steam Link on my big screen. Also I noticed it helps to set the resolution to 1080p FIRST, it will downrez from 4k but I think that was causing some of the crashing. Other times would crash back to desktop, and I was staring at my PC's desktop from the living room TV. For some reason some games would be in a small window instead of fullscreen. I did notice I had better luck when starting the game on the PC first instead of launching it through the Steam Link launcher. I tried a couple different games, some worked fine, others had no audio, some just crashed repeatedly. There will be no way I can make this play nice with my Harmony, too many input changes on both sides, but I got it working. Dug out an old optical cable and went out from tv back in to the AVR, finally got that to work without sync/lag. That would probably be the end of it with a sound bar using ARC, but going back to my AVR resulted in all kinds of audio sync issues and me fighting with Bravia Sync (Sony's flavor of HDMI CEC, which requires to be on for ARC to work for some stupid reason). Wasted an hour trying to make ARC work, gave up on that. I have all my hdmi devices going to the AVR, which then is hdmi out to the TV. Then I spent a couple hours getting the audio working with my new AVR so I don't have to listen to TV speakers. If that didn't work I assume there is a bluetooth way to pair it with the TV but didn't go down that rabbit hole. ![]() I just used my wireless xbone gamepad in the living room and it connected to my pc in the next room no problem. I got it to sync up with my PC (wired gig) easily enough. Including my Sony x900h! Adding it to TV was easy, just download from the Play store on the TV. well lookee here, it's on the Google Play store and works on most android devices. So I began to wonder about Steam Link again and started googling. ![]() At one point I thought I was going to buy a 50 foot HDMI and USB cords, but those things aren't cheap (and I am, LOL) My PC is only about 30 feet from the living room, but in my office so a couple of walls. I *ALMOST* resorted to rolling my game pc into the living room, but am lazy. I gave up on that years ago and sold it.įast forward to this weekend and I had a hankering for some PC gaming on the big screen. I was never happy with that thing, just too laggy even on wired gig ethernet, and too glitchy with game setups. First off, I used to have the physical Steam Link box.
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