I mean, of course battery life is better when you’re essentially just streaming video…
Oh, thanks, I needed that to understand what this was talking about.
Didn’t this give it away?:
… unlocking the full potential of Valve’s handheld device for cloud gaming.
The app is now available, and gamers can stream titles on the Steam Deck at up to 4K 60 frames per second …
Sure, it would have, but I was following the time-honored tradition of reading only the title and the Lemmy comments without clicking through to the full article. If that comment hadn’t been there, it is possible that my intrigue and confusion would have been sufficient to make me betray my legacy and bring shame to my family by actually reading the linked article. Disaster avoided!
Why would anyone stream 4k to a smaller screen!?
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in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%
Because it’s just streaming video…
I read the headline expecting to need some ELI5 on how they had some crazy optimizations… but guess it’s nothing like that hahaha.
I’ve yet to stream a game from a device to another without being annoyed by latency and compression artifacts.
It’s been ok enough for games like Civilization etc. but generally it’s just shit. The hardware just isn’t there yet.
I’ve had good luck with Sunshine/Moonlight, though I haven’t tried it in the last 6 months or so. Was using it to stream my much beefier desktop to my Rog Ally while in bed when I hurt my back.
There was a slight latency, like, enough to notice that I notice, but hardly enough to catch when fully engaged. But the PC was getting like 200 frames in the games I was playing and that was limited to the 120fps limit I set for Moonlight (i think it let’s you bypass this to go higher, but I didn’t want to at the time).
Chiaki works pretty well for me (PS5 on the Deck)
Chiaki and Moonlight are both great solutions if your Wifi signal is strong and your host device has a wired connection in my experience. Do people with good internet up speeds set it up to stream from WAN? This would be equivalent to that IMO.
Self hosted Sunshine and Moonlight is the way to go.
I was down in Texas for Dreamhack last week at the LAN. On the drive back, my car passenger was able to take my shitty laptop, connect to his phone hotspot, and he used the GeForce streaming service to play a steam game for a good 4+ hours.
Fuck Nvidia, but the service is okay in a pinch. I will never use it, but I see the appeal for people that don’t have gaming computers.
Um yay, I guess. I’m always for more options. And maybe there is a market out there for the “game from the cloud” idea. Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink. In no world do I want to pay for a subscription to play games on a device where I can just play that game locally.
Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink.
Stuff like this is great for when you don’t have the hardware required to play the game at that quality (or at all), or you want to try a game before installing it.
What would be the point of streaming a game at 4K onto an 800p display?
The next four words in the article explains it… “Connected to a TV”
Probably for docked Decks attached to a 4K TV/Display.
Who said you needed to stream it in 4k?
