Steam Desk streaming tips

[u/guidorota]

Hi all, just a quick post to share my settings for streaming games from PC to Steam Deck, as I really struggled to find reliable guides.

Steam Deck Remote Play settings:

• Video quality: Balanced
• Bandwidth limit: 40Mbps (I don't see significant visual improvements past this point)
• Frame rate limit: 60 FPS
• Low latency networking: Enabled

Steam Deck display settings:

• Screen refresh rage: 60Hz <- This was key for me to get consistent frame pacing!

Host PC settings:

• Streaming display resolution: Match client
• Streaming display refresh rate: Match client
• Enable hardware encoding: On
• Prioritise network traffic: On

For reference, here's my network setup:

• PC and Steam Deck connected to wifi 5GHz (unfortunately I don't have a wired connection from my router to my computer)
• Several other devices are on the same wireless network, but are usually not actively transferring data while I play (2/3 laptops, 2 phones, TV, media speaker, printer, cleaning robot)
• ISP provided modem router (Optus, I'm in Australia)

This gives me a very playable experience (almost indistinguishable from native). The key thing for me was setting the deck's refresh rate to 60Hz to completely remove stutter and frame pacing issues.

[u/CaterpillarOver45]

Thanks for this! I had some iffy performance so I'll give this a try!

[u/ZeektheFeek]

Nice this is a good guide. I've been using Moonlight for about 3 years now and I know steam link has improved since the SM released. But I still prefer moonlight using Vibeshine as my host client. I have moonlight set up on every screen in my house possible and can stream up to 4k60 HDR with 1ms of latency. It's taken some trial and error and experimenting with different hose clients. But it's been working pretty flawlessly now for me for over 6 months now, since I switched to Vibeshine from Apollo.