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Every time I've tried Steam Play, even over hardwired gigabit, it's been laggy, buggy, and crash prone. There was always display switching problems, controllers
by technobabbler 5y ago
Every time I've tried Steam Play, even over hardwired gigabit, it's been laggy, buggy, and crash prone. There was always display switching problems, controllers and keyboards not being detected correctly, graphical issues, etc. Just a PITA.
GeForce Now works much better and doesn't require you to have your own GPU. Do need fast internet though.
- sen 5y agoI use Remote Play regularly (bed-bound lots due to medical issues) and never had a problem, but have found it’s finicky on your setup. Eg it never really worked on my ISP-provided modem/router but once I got a UDM (for unrelated reasons) it worked flawlessly and has ever since. The fact I can lie in bed with laptop plugged into bedroom TV and use a PS4 controller to play games running on my gaming PC in another room is truly awesome.
- technobabbler 5y agoWhat is a UDM? And I believe you. I wish I knew what the variables were. I really wanted to like Remote Play and even got special hardware for it (Steam Link, Shield TV, etc.) and still couldn't get it to be reliable.
- alphager 5y agoUnifi Dream Machine, a prosumer router/wifi AP combo.
- technobabbler 5y agoRoger that, will have to check it out!
- sen 5y agoYeah as alphager said, it’s a router by Ubiquiti that solved a lot of my networking issues. I wish I knew what exactly it was that made Remote Play work, but that was just one of the many things that didn’t work before then I realised later suddenly worked with my new router.
- technobabbler 5y agoCool, thanks for the tip! I've been having nonstop issues with my Google Router and ISP modem, will have to try that instead.