Remote Play not working from Windows to Steam Deck

[baconicsynergy]

Hello. I think the Steam Deck is a work of pure joy and wonder. But sometimes even the greatest creations have bugs.

I'm running the Steam Beta branch on my Deck, with Stable on my Windows PC/server. The game loads fine on Windows, but the Deck is stuck in a loading spinning Steam logo with a black screen behind it.

Hopefully this helps. I'm honestly not used to using traditional forums for bug reporting, but anything is better than nothing I suppose.

[Tachi]

Having the same issue on the latest preview build. It was working fine on Thursday.

Had been using Preview due to a bug Valve has fixed that hasn't been added to Stable yet: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10429

[Hiro]

Same here, not only from Windows.

It is not working from:
- Windows -> Deck
- Linux -> Deck

However it is working from (I only use this for configuration, not to play):
- Deck -> Windows
- Deck -> Linux

I tried applications, Steam Games and Non-Steam games.
None work, all stay on the loading screen.

I can move the mouse on the host machine and see the mouse moving on Deck.
I can also hear the sound on the Deck, but button presses are not sent to the host machine.
Pressing "B" ends the stream.

[bombfishlp]

For what it’s worth I’m having the exact same issue, nothing has fixed it

[Anubis]

Same here... Here we go again..

Edit: Remote Play works correctly in Desktop Mode. However when you try to end the session via Steam+Left Dpad (escape), you cannot tap on "Stop Streaming". You must use Steam+R Trackpad to move the mouse cursor over to "Stop Streaming" and click it via R2. Hope this helps someone.

[Anubis]

Before this, It was impossible to end remote play with exiting the game. Well you could go into Setting>Remote Play and turn it off but that hard crashes the deck.

[baconicsynergy]

It makes me happy that these forums are actually successful in us discussing the issue and temporary workarounds.

I think there are enough people here to catch a developer's eye.

I also just found out about Valve's github page, so I will be moving the discussion over there and creating a bug report. I will post a link here to the github issue, but I won't be online for a bit so I'll do this maybe tomorrow.

Happy gaming everyone!

[it's ya boy ragu]

Getting this too in both Beta and Preview builds. Have not tried Stable.

[Paez]

UPDATE: Switching to the stable branch on Steam Deck resolved the issue.

Same issue here. Windows PC -> Deck. Audio and controls available on Deck but instead of the video stream I get a Steam loading spinner logo.
A day before I had this exact same issue on Arch(btw) -> Deck. Which was the reason I installed Windows…
Tried everything vom dis/enabling nvfbc capture and hardware de/encoding, resolution and so on. Nothing helped. Hardware is roughly speaking AMD CPU and NVIDIA RTX GPU, if that matters

[ugafan]

Same as above. Working in stable, bugged in beta.

[komradkyle]

Getting the spinning valve icon, can hear the game, launches on PC black screen background. On Beta and preview build all updates every game. Broken.

[Zombie]

Same problem, I'm on the latest beta/preview branch, I was playing RE4 and Remnant II remotely just fine a few weeks ago, I beat RE4, installed RE8 this week and nothing is streaming properly now. I just get audio and the spinning deck symbol. I had VERY consistent settings in and everything worked great in the past, now it's broken =( So an update in the last week or so has boned streaming.

[Anubis]

Originally posted by Zombie:

Same problem, I'm on the latest beta/preview branch, I was playing RE4 and Remnant II remotely just fine a few weeks ago, I beat RE4, installed RE8 this week and nothing is streaming properly now. I just get audio and the spinning deck symbol. I had VERY consistent settings in and everything worked great in the past, now it's broken =( So an update in the last week or so has boned streaming.

Have you tried Remote Play while in Desktop Mode on your deck? If so, how did it go?