I've had the best luck with Moonlight (OSS client) and Sunshine (OSS server replacement for GeForce Experience's "GameStream") -- very minimal latency (almost completely undetectable) from my RTX 3090 PC to my Nvidia Shield.
A few months ago I found out my FireTV enabled smart TV supports Steam Link. I had to sideload the APK, but once it was installed the game streaming worked great at 1080p.<p>You can get a surprising amount of hardware to work as a game streaming frontend if your internet is fast enough. Moonlight-Switch is also interesting if you've got a jailbroken Switch sitting around like I do:<p><a href="https://github.com/XITRIX/Moonlight-Switch">https://github.com/XITRIX/Moonlight-Switch</a><p><a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9553519/135712658-20382345-2da5-4968-9f57-f9f4470ae819.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9553519/135712658-...</a>
What Pi 5 is good for? It doesn't look like a portable because of high power consumption, nor it's a desktop class system because of its weak compute and high price. Pi 3 or 4 is still a better choice for almost anything including retro gaming and Linux education.
I have a Steam Link and a Chromecast with Link installed, and neither of them works. Whenever I launch Link, the sound will come through, but the video just stays stuck on the splash screen. It's a pity, Steam is great otherwise.
What’s the current top choice if I want to occasionally with low friction play games, but don’t want to actually be running the game myself (seems like for this you still use your PC). I have symmetric fios 1Gbs, and want to play either on Macbook, or on tv connected to appletv/firetv stick.
Would GeForceNow be the best, or any other better options?
Huh i never realised that Steam link was also for 2D. Thought it was VR streaming only. I mostly game in VR so I guess I'm a bit too focused on that with the news
Since the Pi 5 supports (only) h265 hardware decoding this should be a good experience if set up that way.<p>Altough I'd also recommend looking into Moonlight and Sunshine.