Steam Link hardware encoding not working

[Eike Kusch]

Hi guys,
I've been looking for quite some time for the solution but I'm at a dead end. Hope someone can help me or tell me it can't work so I can move on :p

So the problem is I just bought a steam link and it's quite nice. Had fun with friends on local multiplayer games that don't require a lot of CPU.

Now when I tried to stream more demanding games like Dying Light, that runs pretty well on my computer, I realised hardware encoding doesn't work. My CPU reaches 100% and I lose FPS.

I enabled hardware acceleration in BPM on AMD only, cause I got a R9 290. I reinstalled its drivers with the latest ones and enabled Relive (that I tested and it does use hardware encoding). But nothing works. Hardware streaming still doesn't work.

Am I missing something? Steam link is such a great device but I can't use it properly since I can't activate hardware encoding.

My specs: Windows 10 pro 64bits / Intel I5 4460 3,2/3,4Ghz / 16 Go DDR3 RAM / AMD R9 290

[Falsus Te Deum]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/0/133260492057879468/
See if this thread can shed some light?

[Eike Kusch]

Thanks for your reply. I already read that thread but it doesn't say how to enable hardware acceleration via AMD GPU.

Meanwhile, I managed to enable Quick Sync using my iGPU. It's better fps wide but encoding still uses CPU instead of GPU. I guess I'll settle with that. But I just don't get why I can't my GPU to encode in steam while it works with Relive.