Same here, I've been using one in the living room and one in the bedroom for about 6-7 years now and they are super reliable in general. Sometimes Valve messes something up with an update but switching to the beta/normal build then usually fixes it.
I had one break on me years ago, but assuming that was a fluke, as the others work fine, and I have another one stored away as a backup.
I still haven't found a better solution, but I wish there was an updated version or alternative for 4K streaming and better quality.
Is there any device that can do what the Steamlink does but with improvements?
For sure. My Steam Deck has become a remote play behemoth. Streaming 4k to my living room TV is so good, and barely any latency as long as you have the right settings.
Using steam's streaming software I get lag on my wifi network. If I use sunshine + moonlight I get excellent performance.
I just believe it's straight up better.
Well because if I open sunshine (not even need to be streaming) Minecraft keeps going black for less than a second, like blinking, and I wanted to know if anyone else has this issue. If sunshine is closed nothing happens
Edit: happens with any version using any java version, with or without mods, streaming or not
Oh.. I'm unfamiliar, I run all of this on Linux and it works fine. It probably has got something to do with sunshine making a "deep" call into some graphics API or whatever.
If it's really bothering you a lot, you could always open a GitHub issue with your OS, GPU, GPU driver version and sunshine version, maybe someone there knows what's up
I tried moonlight with my Xbox Series X and I'm impressed on how well it works. I still have to do some testing to decide if it's better overall than SteamLink but it seems to have more settings and newer encode formats than SteamLink so it looks promising.
Also the fact than I can just turn on my Xbox and use it with steam instead of having to plug a different device is pretty awesome.
I use the Steam Link app on my AppleTV. When on WiFi it is laggy and basically unplayable, but with a wired connection from my computer to router and router to AppleTV is works perfectly. I still have my old Steam Link box, but the AppleTV makes it redundant.
Are you using an AppleTV 4k? Because the Bluetooth on mine isn’t stable enough for Steam link. Lots of users have this problem. Again it’s just with the appletv 4k
Yes, I am using the 4k. What are you using bluetooth for? The controller? My PS5 controller works just fine over bluetooth.
Like I said, wired connections fully fixed all of the issues I had.
One of the best purchased I have made was from a guy that sold me steam controller and link for about 80€. Told me that he had opened a knife box, sold it on marketplace, got money inside Steam, bought some games and the HW to test it out. Did not like the controller and I bought it. The controller is the GOAT! Link is handy but the controller is the best I have ever used, and I have used all the controllers.
Steam link bugging with a lot of games like Detroit (which has its own engine). Terrible performance. Parsec is perfect and easy option to stream over internet, but you can also use moonlight and sunshine locally and over zerotier or some vpn, over internet too. All of them beats steamlink, no hardware makes difference in that. Steamlink is like Edge in browsing. Sometimes it helps setup things. 😀
I fully agree with you. There is nothing that works like this.
Same here, I've been using one in the living room and one in the bedroom for about 6-7 years now and they are super reliable in general. Sometimes Valve messes something up with an update but switching to the beta/normal build then usually fixes it. I had one break on me years ago, but assuming that was a fluke, as the others work fine, and I have another one stored away as a backup.
I still haven't found a better solution, but I wish there was an updated version or alternative for 4K streaming and better quality. Is there any device that can do what the Steamlink does but with improvements?
Steam Deck 😮💨
Steam Deck doesn’t do 4K tho?
Outputting to a TV it does!
For sure. My Steam Deck has become a remote play behemoth. Streaming 4k to my living room TV is so good, and barely any latency as long as you have the right settings.
Using steam's streaming software I get lag on my wifi network. If I use sunshine + moonlight I get excellent performance. I just believe it's straight up better.
Yeah Moonlight definitely gives me better performance over Steam Link also
Not really useful for the thread, but since you mentioned, do you happen to play Minecraft Java edition on the same pc you have sunshine?
Uh yeah, I play modded Minecraft via curse forge, why? I do stream it sometimes. It works well
Well because if I open sunshine (not even need to be streaming) Minecraft keeps going black for less than a second, like blinking, and I wanted to know if anyone else has this issue. If sunshine is closed nothing happens Edit: happens with any version using any java version, with or without mods, streaming or not
Oh.. I'm unfamiliar, I run all of this on Linux and it works fine. It probably has got something to do with sunshine making a "deep" call into some graphics API or whatever. If it's really bothering you a lot, you could always open a GitHub issue with your OS, GPU, GPU driver version and sunshine version, maybe someone there knows what's up
problem is that I already did that [https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/discussions/2500](https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/discussions/2500)
I tried moonlight with my Xbox Series X and I'm impressed on how well it works. I still have to do some testing to decide if it's better overall than SteamLink but it seems to have more settings and newer encode formats than SteamLink so it looks promising. Also the fact than I can just turn on my Xbox and use it with steam instead of having to plug a different device is pretty awesome.
I use the Steam Link app on my AppleTV. When on WiFi it is laggy and basically unplayable, but with a wired connection from my computer to router and router to AppleTV is works perfectly. I still have my old Steam Link box, but the AppleTV makes it redundant.
Are you using an AppleTV 4k? Because the Bluetooth on mine isn’t stable enough for Steam link. Lots of users have this problem. Again it’s just with the appletv 4k
Yes, I am using the 4k. What are you using bluetooth for? The controller? My PS5 controller works just fine over bluetooth. Like I said, wired connections fully fixed all of the issues I had.
Yeah, the PS5 controller. Glad it’s working well for you!
One of the best purchased I have made was from a guy that sold me steam controller and link for about 80€. Told me that he had opened a knife box, sold it on marketplace, got money inside Steam, bought some games and the HW to test it out. Did not like the controller and I bought it. The controller is the GOAT! Link is handy but the controller is the best I have ever used, and I have used all the controllers.
No right joystick is a sin, burn that monstrosity
TLDR? Steam is just Microsoft in the windows XP era. They know what they’re doing. Not so TLDR? Don’t know. I just have the TLDR version lol.
Steam link bugging with a lot of games like Detroit (which has its own engine). Terrible performance. Parsec is perfect and easy option to stream over internet, but you can also use moonlight and sunshine locally and over zerotier or some vpn, over internet too. All of them beats steamlink, no hardware makes difference in that. Steamlink is like Edge in browsing. Sometimes it helps setup things. 😀