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Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link

by Venn1 on 12/7/24, 7:53 PM with 44 comments

  • by daveidol on 12/7/24, 9:12 PM

    I've had the best luck with Moonlight (OSS client) and Sunshine (OSS server replacement for GeForce Experience's "GameStream") -- very minimal latency (almost completely undetectable) from my RTX 3090 PC to my Nvidia Shield.
  • by talldayo on 12/7/24, 8:05 PM

    A few months ago I found out my FireTV enabled smart TV supports Steam Link. I had to sideload the APK, but once it was installed the game streaming worked great at 1080p.

    You can get a surprising amount of hardware to work as a game streaming frontend if your internet is fast enough. Moonlight-Switch is also interesting if you've got a jailbroken Switch sitting around like I do:

    https://github.com/XITRIX/Moonlight-Switch

    https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9553519/135712658-...

  • by novaRom on 12/7/24, 9:16 PM

    What Pi 5 is good for? It doesn't look like a portable because of high power consumption, nor it's a desktop class system because of its weak compute and high price. Pi 3 or 4 is still a better choice for almost anything including retro gaming and Linux education.
  • by stavros on 12/7/24, 8:26 PM

    I have a Steam Link and a Chromecast with Link installed, and neither of them works. Whenever I launch Link, the sound will come through, but the video just stays stuck on the splash screen. It's a pity, Steam is great otherwise.
  • by phoronixrly on 12/7/24, 10:26 PM

    Valve, why is the Steam Link not open sourced?
  • by radicality on 12/7/24, 8:39 PM

    What’s the current top choice if I want to occasionally with low friction play games, but don’t want to actually be running the game myself (seems like for this you still use your PC). I have symmetric fios 1Gbs, and want to play either on Macbook, or on tv connected to appletv/firetv stick. Would GeForceNow be the best, or any other better options?
  • by wkat4242 on 12/8/24, 1:56 AM

    Huh i never realised that Steam link was also for 2D. Thought it was VR streaming only. I mostly game in VR so I guess I'm a bit too focused on that with the news
  • by nani8ot on 12/7/24, 10:09 PM

    Since the Pi 5 supports (only) h265 hardware decoding this should be a good experience if set up that way.

    Altough I'd also recommend looking into Moonlight and Sunshine.

  • by goodburb on 12/7/24, 8:48 PM

    Parsec[1] would be interesting to compare.

    [1] https://parsec.app/