Dion
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They added support for audio settings into the latest beta in preparation for 5.1 support.
And they updated the steam beta client to support it. And I can confirm.. 5.1 works on Steamlink now..
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They added support for audio settings into the latest beta in preparation for 5.1 support.
And they updated the steam beta client to support it. And I can confirm.. 5.1 works on Steamlink now..
Can you elaborate how you got it working? I have a 2.1 setup on my PC, but want to stream at 5.1 to my Home Theatre, but every game just gives me 2.1 options.
Really starting to appreciate the link/controller now. Working through the Witcher 3 currently and playing from my couch with the link is a better experience than playing at my desk. Modified some settings and am now getting 60 fps with no noticeable lag on the "beautiful" setting over powerline ethernet. The right touchpad feels seemless for controlling the camera now, not at all awkward.
I agree that game pads aren't as easy as a mouse and keyboard to use most of the time. But game pads do work well in situations like sitting on the couch and playing games.Game pads sucks ass. KBM is the only way I roll.
Just thought I'd chime in with my experience of the Steam controller...
Overall I've found it to be very disappointing, unfortunately.
Also, had I known that I necessarily MUST run steam to be able to use it I wouldn't have bothered. Worse still, you have to run steam in big picture mode in order to configure it, which I just find fucking annoying tbh. I know this requirement is bullshit because you can close steam and the pad carries on working in Windows. But, of course, you can't configure it, so it becomes useless.
My primary usage was to be Guild Wars 2 so I could play it in the living room, but it just doesn't work very well to be honest, and I gave up trying to make it work after a few hours and haven't even touched the pad since Christmas. Works great with Portal, that's about it imho.
Great idea, but not ready for prime time yet I'd say. And for god sake remove the bloody steam requirement!
Would anyone buy a mouse that only works with Steam?
1. My TV is 1080p, my monitor (of which the 'computer is doing the computing') is not, therefore I got a lower resolution--Pretty annoying.
2. Lag. I don't have gigabit, (one day) but man it felt really laggy. I had to lower graphics just to make some games playable, and things that required split second response didn't do well since you had a few more millaseconds between you, your TV's response time, the network, and the game response time.
3. I absolutely hate the idea of having a game up on two screens. I find it annoying. Mostly for me since if I'm gaming, its because young children are in bed--I'd hate for kids to be on their way to the bathroom and watch me completely destroying alien's faces without my knowledge.
The Link won't stream if the host computer monitor's off. But you may want to try it with the monitor switched to another input so your kids won't see daddy get pwned.
2. Lag. I don't have gigabit, (one day) but man it felt really laggy. I had to lower graphics just to make some games playable, and things that required split second response didn't do well since you had a few more millaseconds between you, your TV's response time, the network, and the game response time.
That's not true. I've streamed with my monitor off.
The Steam client always crashes on me if I try to stream and the monitor's off. I'll try what the Reddit prescribes.
I've never streamed with my monitor on and have never had an issue.
I did try to change my settings in the game to 1080p. It would work. Even simple games were laggy at 720p. It worked. Just not in a playable way.The workaround to this is really simple. Set the in-game video settings to 1920x1080 instead of your monitor's native resolution. You can do that either at host machine or via the Link while streaming the game. Yes, you have to switch teh game back to your desktop's native res when you play at the desktop- a minor annoyance. There's only one game in my collection where this method doesn't work- Shadows of Mordor. For some reason, SoM can't ignore the desktop resolution.
I run an ultrawide monitor (2560x1080) so it was streaming @ 1280x540 to my Link until I figured it out.
FYI, the port on the Steam Link is only 100Mb/s, not gigabit. And the Link tops out at 30Mb/s by default. There are hacks to remove this limit- but I've never felt the need to try it out.
The Link won't stream if the host computer monitor's off. But you may want to try it with the monitor switched to another input so your kids won't see daddy get pwned.
Just thought I'd chime in with my experience of the Steam controller...
Overall I've found it to be very disappointing, unfortunately.
Also, had I known that I necessarily MUST run steam to be able to use it I wouldn't have bothered. Worse still, you have to run steam in big picture mode in order to configure it, which I just find fucking annoying tbh. I know this requirement is bullshit because you can close steam and the pad carries on working in Windows. But, of course, you can't configure it, so it becomes useless.
My primary usage was to be Guild Wars 2 so I could play it in the living room, but it just doesn't work very well to be honest, and I gave up trying to make it work after a few hours and haven't even touched the pad since Christmas. Works great with Portal, that's about it imho.
Great idea, but not ready for prime time yet I'd say. And for god sake remove the bloody steam requirement!
Would anyone buy a mouse that only works with Steam?