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?
I only use my steam deck for indie games and emulation. Big titles I play on my PC.
Definitely depends on the game… That’s the only answer.
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
The latency is surprisingly good compared to what I expected.
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.
Not always, but youd be a fool not to for tripple a games. Be a bit silly to stream stardew valley for example imo.
Here’s how I do it :
- Indie games, emulation and older AAA games : Deck
- everything else : stream from pc.
I’m not into highly competitive multiplayer games, but my son streams Fortnite from my PC to the Deck and doesn’t seem to be having difficulty performing great online. PC is wired to a 6e router and I use Moonlight/Sunshine.
I’ve been streaming Diablo 4 from my PC to SteamDeck and I don’t notice latency. It’s great to be able to stream on ultra graphic straight to the deck at 60FPS
I’m planning on streaming when home, and using the synced cloud saves for my commute.
It’s a win win.
I’ve got a 4090 rig aswell and set it up for streaming. It’s really good but I don’t like having to configure everything. Can only get better once my OLED arrives for that better WiFi chip and screen
I only do for game that actually make a difference, but even using steam link i haven’t really gotten that much lag.
Depends, if the deck can handle it fine natively no reason not to go native, it’s more power efficient and doesn’t add network as a point of failure
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.
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.
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.
Except for HDR !
All I want for Christmas is moonlight to support HDR on the OLED deck