I set up Steam Link on my raspberry pi to try and do some couch gaming over the holiday… but its no bueno. I am on a 5600x/6700xt with wayland on linux, and steam is up to date.

I get a black screen with a mouse cursor.

I try launching steam with the -pipewire command as i’ve read elsewhere, and I can see big picture mode, but its horribly slow… But the weird thing is, its only steam/games thats slow. The mouse runs in real time without lag, and any sounds run in real time without lag or hiccup. But the video is like 1 frame per minute, so I can push left on the d-pad and have to sit and wait forever for the selection on the TV to move (even though its moved over immediately on the desktop).

Games are the same issue. Game runs fine on the desktop, audio runs fine on the streamed TV, but the video is just like…slide show.

I’ve tried running it at the lowest possible image quality settings. at low bandwidth, at high bandwidth, at the max the network test suggested, tried turning all the settings like hardware video encoding and stuff off and on. Nothing makes a difference.

Is steam link just completely screwed or am I being an idiot and doing something wrong?

  • @A_Random_IdiotOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I have a sneaking suspicion its something wonky with steam itself, cause like I said… the mouse on the streamed TV is flawless, and audio is flawless, yet the video runs at frames per minute.

    and i have no problem streaming video via discord to friends or anything.

    • poVoqEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      There are some options to enable or disable hardware acceleration. You can also try running it in x11 to see if that makes a difference. But for me Wayland with KDE seems to work.