Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link

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&#x27;ve got a jailbroken Switch sitting around like I do:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XITRIX&#x2F;Moonlight-Switch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XITRIX&#x2F;Moonlight-Switch</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9553519&#x2F;135712658-20382345-2da5-4968-9f57-f9f4470ae819.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9553519&#x2F;135712658-...</a>

What Pi 5 is good for? It doesn&#x27;t look like a portable because of high power consumption, nor it&#x27;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&#x27;s a pity, Steam is great otherwise.

Valve, why is the Steam Link not open sourced?

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&#x2F;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&#x27;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&#x27;d also recommend looking into Moonlight and Sunshine.

Parsec[1] would be interesting to compare.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parsec.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parsec.app&#x2F;</a>