3840x1024 resolutions (triple monitor)

[Joker]

HI folks - been very tempted to buy steam link, and with the sale on that temptation only grows. The one thing that is putting me off so far is that my usual set-up (primarily for work rather than games) is a triple monitor set-up running at 3840x1024. Question is - how will this work when streamed to my 50" HD TV downstairs? I know I have the network to cope (it's all wired), but not sure what I'll end up with on the TV screen.

I'm running a GTX 970 with two DVI ports and the HDMI port at the moment, so one display port free.

[ironman100]

I'm only guessing here based on what I know of the Steam Link, as I have been considering one also.

1) I don't believe the Video Card on your PC will have any bearing on this device as it is getting everything via your LAN

2) Max resolution output is 1080p at 60/fps. That is the highest resolution you could show from the Steam Link device on a connected TV (i.e. 1080P means 1920x1080 Progressive Scan. Which means all 1920x1080 pixels are updated in a single pass at 60Hz)

3) If you try and stream to your 3-monitor setup, you would just splitting that 720P or 1080P across the three screens using your own video splitter hardware (not so good resolution for that much real-estate). Also, I don't see a reason why you would even want to use this if your are saying the 3-screens are at your PC.

So to answer your question, it should have no problem streaming at 1080P to your single 50" HD TV with a wired connection. Think of this as "Remote Play" featured in other game systems, it works very similar to that.

You plug the Steam Link in by your TV with an HDMI v1.1+ cable and connect to your LAN network at 100mb+, so CAT5+ or better wiring and network jumper cables (really old hubs, routers, and cabling were 10 base-T and can not handle the bandwidth requirements for streaming HD very well... if at all).

Then just start STEAM on your LAN connected PC, and away she goes! (The Steam Link should auto-detect Steam running on that PC)

In some rare cases, port routing in the router, or firewall settings on the Steam PC may need adjusting, but that would be more for the propeller heads running multiple domains in their home, or custom NAT tables... stuff like that.

Other readers / DEVs, please correct me if I'm wrong here.

[Xjph]

That's a lot of words to say "I'm not sure, but it should work." ;)

OP, if you change nothing you'll end up with a severely letterboxed display. Like, Family Guy's Lawerence of Arabia "original super widescreen" gag levels of letterboxing. You'll need to change the resolution of any game you intend to play on the Link to a 16:9 aspect ratio to avoid this, or possibly enable the In-Home Streaming option to change desktop resolution to match streaming client, though last I heard it didn't really cooperate nicely with spanned displays.

[Joker]

Thanks folks - it does seem like I'm just going to have to buy it and try it. Should be fun :-)