Steam remote play no longer works on Mac? (OS 10.15)

[Zē Sēthis]

I recently updated my mac to OS 10.15 to ensure I continued getting steam client updates as my previous OS was out of date. This seems to have been a mistake as the purpose of steam on this mac was to stream from the home's main windows system and the older version did that properly. (No going back now)

Attempting to launch a game will properly launch the game on the windows system it's intended to stream from but simply does nothing else on the Mac and just shows "Connect". Clicking "Connect" will briefly change the option to "Stop" before doing nothing and switching back to "Connect".

I've seen people mention this issue before but the solutions are only for windows systems.
This problem persists regardless of steam beta or not.

Any ideas would be very helpful, thanks!

[tripgender]

I am having the same issue - have tried adding firewall exceptions for streaming_client.exe, changing hardware encoding settings, disabling and re-enabling remote play on both machines, but still no luck. Worked three days ago and I haven't made any system changes since. Frustrating!

[[SIN] Jec]

Have the same issue. Did you ever find a fix?

[tintingaroo]

Looks like a Steam client bug - here's a users bug report with the error message they see:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/6655846323584083147/

[smokerob79]

as a MAC owner you should know its time to spend 2 grand again on a new computer just because one thing stopped working......

[tripgender]

♥♥♥♥ off rob no one asked your unwashed ass for an opinion.

[tripgender]

I ended up using sunshine and moonlight but it’s clunkier than steam remote play was. Laggier too.

[Zē Sēthis]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

Looks like a Steam client bug - here's a users bug report with the error message they see:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/6655846323584083147/

Interesting to see something like that. Though there is no difference right now between the normal and beta builds of steam for my current issue. This issue does not crash steam at all. It simply appears to do nothing but launch the game on the target PC...

I'm not completely convinced this is a mac-specific issue and that this is more so something to do with recently updating OS and that I may be missing something. What that "something" is, remains to be seen.

[tintingaroo]

OK. This is what leads me to believe it's a Steam client bug:

- Steam stable was updated 11th Sep (it's had another since then).
(Previous stable update was 16th July)

- First reply in this thread on 14th Sep mentions they are having the same issue, but that it worked three days ago and they didn't make any system changes.

- The post in the bug report mentions

Originally posted by abc:

Unable to launch Remote Play on macOS after the Families update.

(The 'Families update' is the 11th Sep Steam stable update)
And they mention a similar experience

Originally posted by abc:

The game is launched on Windows PC, but nothing happens on Mac.

- Seen these guys discussing it here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/4852154959744871460/

- Another user here on macOS 11.7.10 posted about their issue on 12th Sep
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/4755326933237030731/
They and the user in the bug report forum don't mention Steam crashing, but rather they have a crash report.
I have access to a MacBook running 10.15.7 and experience the same issue. Learned crash reports can be found at ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ and I see streaming_client crash reports containing similar info as the guys on 11.7.10.

For experience being the same across Steam beta and stable: Valve update Steam beta and introduce a bug. They don't resolve it before they push beta to stable. Then things are the same until beta is updated with something that addresses things.

Anyway, guess we'll see in time what's what.

[Addie]

Windows PC user here. Since the latest update, I haven't been able to use Remote Play via Steam Link hardware, Steam Link mobile app, or Steam Link Windows 11 app on my laptop. Each Steam Link shows that I'm connected to the host PC. When I click to connect, Big Picture mode immediately starts on the host PC but the Steam Link never connects, resulting in a "Couldn't start streaming on the remote computer" message and the host PC never actually streams anything.

I'm very certain that this is a Steam client issue with the latest update. I've tried every possible fix, including reinstalling the client, GPU drivers, router settings, firewall, VPN, remote play toggle, etc. and nothing works.

I use Steam Link nearly every day and this has been a major inconvenience. Hoping Valve can fix this issue ASAP.

[Zē Sēthis]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

OK. This is what leads me to believe it's a Steam client bug:

- Steam stable was updated 11th Sep (it's had another since then).
(Previous stable update was 16th July)

- First reply in this thread on 14th Sep mentions they are having the same issue, but that it worked three days ago and they didn't make any system changes.

- The post in the bug report mentions

Originally posted by abc:

Unable to launch Remote Play on macOS after the Families update.

(The 'Families update' is the 11th Sep Steam stable update)
And they mention a similar experience

Originally posted by abc:

The game is launched on Windows PC, but nothing happens on Mac.

- Seen these guys discussing it here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/4852154959744871460/

- Another user here on macOS 11.7.10 posted about their issue on 12th Sep
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/4755326933237030731/
They and the user in the bug report forum don't mention Steam crashing, but rather they have a crash report.
I have access to a MacBook running 10.15.7 and experience the same issue. Learned crash reports can be found at ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ and I see streaming_client crash reports containing similar info as the guys on 11.7.10.

For experience being the same across Steam beta and stable: Valve update Steam beta and introduce a bug. They don't resolve it before they push beta to stable. Then things are the same until beta is updated with something that addresses things.

Anyway, guess we'll see in time what's what.

This appears to be it. I wasn't initially getting crash logs but decided to remove steam and re-download it juuuust in case to see if that made a difference. Turns out, it does. Crashes began appearing in that file path so this is probably the issue. In this case, all we really can do is wait... impatiently.

[quentinmayo]

Try updating Steam on your Mac, that fixed my issue

[Dolfost]

Originally posted by quentinmayo:

Try updating Steam on your Mac, that fixed my issue

There was an update that touched macOS remote play on December 3, but It won't fix my issues with remote playing Death Road to Canada as a host. My friend constantly sees "Input is temporarily disabled while the host is busy."

[Dzoni]

Still not workikg…