Streaming games through steam unplayable, no lag using RDP instead

[MonkeyoChaos]

Streaming games on my laptop from my desktop is incredibly laggy, oftentimes I'm not even getting past the main menu of games and just get that red circular wi-fi symbol in the lower right. However I can remote desktop using Chrome remote desktop and play games like that and I've got no lag at all.

So what is it that Steam is doing to make it suck and how do I make it not suck.

[_I_]

check the streaming log file

steam\logs\streaming_log.txt

it will show where the lag is coming from
network, encode, decode etc..


if its network
make sure windows network is set to private not public
any vpn is disabled
if using wifi, make sure wifi isolation is disabled on the router
steam -> settings -> remote play -> allow direct = all/auto/my not disabled

any of those will force steam to use their internet relays and your isp upload and download for the stream