is remote play always lag if your play with your friends online?

[berpson]

i really need to know this i got this game today

[e.bkapalka]

Remote play is a feature of Steam, not the game. The host will play in real-time while the second player will be the only one experiencing lag. That lag can be anywhere from unnoticeable to unplayable depending on your internet connection

[berpson]

ok but i want some one to play this with someone beacuse me and my friend can barely play we both lag really hard to the point were it not playable

[e.bkapalka]

Originally posted by angelc06140:

ok but i want some one to play this with someone beacuse me and my friend can barely play we both lag really hard to the point were it not playable

Try Parsec. Same concept, different application. It’s most likely just a matter of one of your internet connection, which unfortunately there’s no workaround for, but worth a shot

[Retrolicious]

Steams Remote play is still a beta product, i think it launched in 2019? It maybe was just a hal.fassed attempt to spook new rising competitors like googles stadia away idk ...

Also lag can come from many sources including bad pc, ISP, covid19 closed infrastructure, day of time (i.e. evening prime gaming lags much more), city, aviability, steam server, toaster, hot chili salad, you get the point right?

If it lags refund and get a game with true online coop modes instead :p
You can also try to play couch coop, if said friend lives nearby, then games like "Crawl" would also work this way. EtG sadly has no splitscreen mode sorry ...

For example in terraria you can host your own dedicated servers etc

[256MB of SPAM]

I play using the Steam Link app on Apple TV hooked up to a projector. Everything (my PC -> Router -> Apple TV) are all hooked up via ethernet cable and there will always, no matter what, be some form of input lag. Its as good as you'll ever get and i still find for some games its not good enough. Like Project Cars 2. Cannot race with that lag. My flatmate cant play Rainbow Six Siege as good as he would like, with that lag. Its incredibly minimal, but its there.

We both play Hades using it and we're fine. So some games are more manageable with it. As of late i have used a direct 20m active USB cable that ends in the living room. That was our way around the ever so slight input lag for some games.

So in my opinion, yes. There will always be some form of input lag. Probably not for the host as others have pointed out, which is inherent in how a host works. But even for a LAN setup with all the machines and network configured correctly, you cant get away from it. Only minimise it. But there's a limit, that after a certain point it just wont get any better. Over the internet should be a given then in comparison.