Anyone else get stuttering issues in most games (steam deck)

[Anicetus_Cer]

I have had these issues for years ever since a major update, my network is in good condition fast and low latency. I get no issues using Unity's Parsec remote desktop and use this on my latptop or others for that matter.
I use remote play on steam deck mostly and in most games i get stuttering. HOWEVER, I have found a work around, once in the game I go to steam deck settings > remote play > and pick a setting like performance or resoltion, I keep the setting the same but reselect it. the screen flashes and my game then plays butter smooth, does anyone know why this is?
It just feels like steam remote play has some fundamental issues with streaming that other providers don't have.
It would be nice to get #metoo here to see how wide spread these issues are.

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steam link forum
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/

what is host and client?

[Anicetus_Cer]

Host is windows 10 PC,
Client is Steam OS (Steam Deck)
Over wifi (6)

I'm not looking for solution here, I have a workaround that works well, just want to see if anyone else has the same issues, of if it is my local router,.

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turn on the stats overlay to see where the delays are coming from

if ping is over 10ms, make sure wifi isolation is disabled, and any vpn is disabled, and windows network is set to private not public

also post the streaming_log.txt from host
found where steam is installed ..\steam\logs

[Anicetus_Cer]

Log here https://pastebin.com/EnNqZTXp

Ping remains always below 10ms

Interestingly when i turned on the stats overlay, the issue did not happen. I had to turn it off and go back to the icon display again to capture a log of the problem.

To provide context,
I load the game stream on my steam desk, the game seems to have a stutter framerate at the login page (of the game) and the continues to feel stuttery once in game.
Now I use the workaround. On the steam desk I open the steam menu, remote play options then select video "balanced" (the same as the current setting) once i select this this seems to refresh the stream connection and I can then play the game without further issue, the log hopefully captures this as well.

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weird, it says slow framerate, but shows 100+fps
its cap and encode and network times look good
avg bandwidth is very low 3m/s but that may be due to its slow framerate and low capture res

on host, is it set to change desktop res to match client?
1280x800
try creating the custom res in nvidia control panel
and enable gpu scaling so it will display properly on the host

[huskiers]

Disable Hardware Decoding

[Anicetus_Cer]

Thanks for the suggestions, I Probably won't get a chance to try them for a few days over christmas, but when i do i'll post back.
The odd thing for me was that the overlay being set to show full stats prevented the issue from happening, it may be the overlay itself is the problem when in status mode, so I'll also try disable this and see if the problem happens.

[Anicetus_Cer]

Hello Again.
I tried some experimenting based on the suggestions today.

Auto resolution switching on the host was not enabled; I enabled it and still got the stutter effect.
Hardware Decoding: was enabled on both host and steamdeck client: I disabled on the host first, and still got the sutter effect. Then I disabled on the client, as you suggested @Mateo, this seems to have resolved the stuttering frame rate. So it looks like the steamdeck gpu decode is the issue switching to the cpu corrects the problem, thankyou both for the suggestions.