[help] Steam remote play between manjaro host and steam deck client

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · edit-2 1 day ago

[help] Steam remote play between manjaro host and steam deck client

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 1 day ago

Just tried it on my arch system, works. Not sure what’s wrong for you. Nothing sticks out in what you posted.

But like the other guy said, you should use Moonlight/Sunshine.

Better latency, better picture quality. I was able to set up AV1.

Plus unlike steam, you can set it to run things at the decks screen resolution. Using steam I get giant black border’s because my desktop is an ultrawide, but even on 16:9 you’ll get small ones, since the deck is 16:10.

I can tell you more about setting up Moonlight/Sunshine if you want. I have it configured so I can remote into my PC in big picture mode, and then I just use my deck to play whatever.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 21 hours ago

Just tried sunshine/moonlight. seems to work well enough, thanks

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 21 hours ago

Great!

If you want Sunshine to run and stream the game at the deck’s resolution, you’ll need to add a “Command Preparation” entry to set and unset the resolution and framerate requested by the Moonlight client on the deck.

Mine look like this:

sh -c "kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.disable; steam steam://open/bigpicture; kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_WIDTH}x${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_HEIGHT}@${SUNSHINE_CLIENT_FPS}"

sh -c "kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.enable; kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.3440x1440@165; sleep 3; steam steam://close/bigpicture"

The first one disables HDR (colors are wrong on the deck otherwise), launches big picture, and sets the main monitor to whatever resolution and framerate is on the client end.

The second re-enables HDR, sets the monitor back to its native resolution and framerate, waits 3 seconds for the resolution change to finish, and then exits big picture. (The wait is so that the normal steam window doesn’t get placed weird while resolution is different)

You can modify these commands and test them in a terminal before setting them up in Sunshine. You can remove the HDR toggle since you’re on x11, and you’ll want to check what the ID of your main monitor is, for me it’s “DP-1”.

Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de · 1 day ago

I didn’t read all that. But you should use Sunshine and Moonlight. I’ve had nothing but trouble with Steam’s remote play.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 21 hours ago

Thanks, just tried it. seems to work well enough

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 1 day ago

Are you using X11 or Wayland on your PC? Steam streaming from X11 works fine, but streaming from Wayland is really finicky or doesn’t work in my experience.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 1 day ago

Yeah it’s KDE Plasma which still used X11 by default.

I’m currently trying to get sunshine/moonlight working as others have suggested

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 19 hours ago

KDE defaults to Wayland on most distros now, so it might be worth confirming.

You can run

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

to find out.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 19 hours ago

i ran earlier today. it’s x11