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 dug my steam link out hte the closet, and after like 2 hours of updating… It does the exact same thing as whats happening with the steamlink app on the RPI.

    Its 100% a steam software issue.

    and no, I’m not paying 600 dollars on a steam deck just to stream a game to my TV for holiday playing.