Streaming from a desktop PC doesn't work very well

[Quadsword]

I've been trying to play Baldur's Gate 3 by streaming it from my PC. Even though I'm on WiFi 6 and the router is less than 20 feet away (and my PC is directly connected), I've had the game crash and corrupt my saves undoing almost 2 hours of progress, and I lost audio one time. Not as in my headphones disconnected; I could still get audio from the SD itself, just not the game. I can't close the game from the SD, either - I basically have to soft reset the console, and it takes several minutes for it to boot back up.

Any possible solutions? I know I could just play BG3 from the SD itself, but the battery only lasts about 90 minutes.

[Mahjik]

Maybe an option to look into...... I have a friend that plays Baldur's Gate 3 via GeForce Now. He said it plays good from there. He didn't have the space to install it on his Deck. He originally had no plans to play it from GeForce Now, he just wanted to check it out. It worked so well, that he plans to only stream it.

[Ben Bernanke]

I would say that either your'e getting packets dropped or you're out of cpu/apu power.

I'd kind of lean more towards packets dropped bc you're saying corrupt data and I'm just assuming that things not getting where they should be on time/at all would be more likely to cause that than the whole system just being slower bc it's overloaded.

Did u check your ping? Cuz the wifi has known stability issues owing to a bad driver.
If the ping is bad, try a usb wifi card.

Does the deck just not have enough cpu power to process the game and stream it at the same time? People are toning down the fps on the game to get it to play on deck but you're trying to play and stream at the same time.

Tthe game might be stressing out the APU but not using all cores on the CPU (I'm assuming they're separate). anyway maybe you can get a resource monitor to show you if all cores are busy with the game and then turn on your video stuff and see if they're still busy. You can do this through command line but idk how. Maybe check the flatpak store (Discover).

There's other streaming options that let you split up the streaming part from the gaming part by using 2 computers but I don't understand how that works. I see people do this with like ps2 and nintendos and stuff on twitch. Maybe it only works with coax-out but deck dock has displayport and it might support that sort of thing. IDK how much it would help.

[shadowboy813]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

I've been trying to play Baldur's Gate 3 by streaming it from my PC. Even though I'm on WiFi 6 and the router is less than 20 feet away (and my PC is directly connected), I've had the game crash and corrupt my saves undoing almost 2 hours of progress, and I lost audio one time. Not as in my headphones disconnected; I could still get audio from the SD itself, just not the game. I can't close the game from the SD, either - I basically have to soft reset the console, and it takes several minutes for it to boot back up.

Any possible solutions? I know I could just play BG3 from the SD itself, but the battery only lasts about 90 minutes.

Have you tried the Steam Link app on your deck?

Originally posted by Ben Bernanke:

I would say that either your'e getting packets dropped or you're out of cpu/apu power.

I'd kind of lean more towards packets dropped bc you're saying corrupt data and I'm just assuming that things not getting where they should be on time/at all would be more likely to cause that than the whole system just being slower bc it's overloaded.

Did u check your ping? Cuz the wifi has known stability issues owing to a bad driver.
If the ping is bad, try a usb wifi card.

Does the deck just not have enough cpu power to process the game and stream it at the same time? People are toning down the fps on the game to get it to play on deck but you're trying to play and stream at the same time.

Tthe game might be stressing out the APU but not using all cores on the CPU (I'm assuming they're separate). anyway maybe you can get a resource monitor to show you if all cores are busy with the game and then turn on your video stuff and see if they're still busy. You can do this through command line but idk how. Maybe check the flatpak store (Discover).

There's other streaming options that let you split up the streaming part from the gaming part by using 2 computers but I don't understand how that works. I see people do this with like ps2 and nintendos and stuff on twitch. Maybe it only works with coax-out but deck dock has displayport and it might support that sort of thing. IDK how much it would help.

OP is not talking about live streaming from the deck. OP is talking about having a host PC on his network render the game, and the Deck display it. The deck is not doing any heavy lifting at all.

[Jâbbérwôkkï]

One thing you might try is going into the Remote Play settings on Steam under settings menu. Toggle the switch that says advanced streaming options. There you can find settings to adjust (lowering streaming resolution to match the devices display output for one), among others that can possibly help. There are more specific instructions online if you JGI (just google it). Unfortunately I can not remember all of them. Hopefully this points you in the right direction. GL

[invision2212]

the audio loss is a known issue with streaming since the last stable update

[Mahjik]

Another note, I have not tried it yet, but most people suggest Moonlight is a better experience than Steam Link/Remote Play:

https://moonlight-stream.org/

[Hand of Vecna]

Can you connect the computers with a cable to check the communication between the two?