I setup the docker container “Wolf” on my gaming PC. It lets me stream from my desktop to my laptop. I’m lucky enough to have WiFi 6 with solid coverage. All that combined means I can run at near native quality and hardly any extra latency streaming from my desktop to my laptop/steamdeck. All without the normal streaming issues of making sure the PC is logged in and ready to start a stream.
I wouldn’t do it for competitive shooters, but for the games I play, it’s great. Keeps my laptop quiet, and my gaming PC being a space heater in another room.
Technically, Wolf uses Moonlight, but I just use that to start the Steam container, after that, I use Steam’s Remote Play directly, because I’ve had the best results with it.
I tried that when I was in another city for a few month. It was all right, but I was on WiFi 5/AC and I live in a country where buildings have thick walls and sometimes there would be issue with streaming, even though I had gigabit on both sides and my desktop was/is on ethernet.
And I play strategy games, which from my understanding are better fit for streaming than most single player genres.
I found myself playing older indie games that I missed (actually found a lot of cool stuff).
I’m doing it all in-house. Once the internet gets involved, all bets are off. Even going from 2 connections in the same town on the same ISP with gigabit fiber I’ve gotten unreliable results.
I setup the docker container “Wolf” on my gaming PC. It lets me stream from my desktop to my laptop. I’m lucky enough to have WiFi 6 with solid coverage. All that combined means I can run at near native quality and hardly any extra latency streaming from my desktop to my laptop/steamdeck. All without the normal streaming issues of making sure the PC is logged in and ready to start a stream.
I wouldn’t do it for competitive shooters, but for the games I play, it’s great. Keeps my laptop quiet, and my gaming PC being a space heater in another room.
Technically, Wolf uses Moonlight, but I just use that to start the Steam container, after that, I use Steam’s Remote Play directly, because I’ve had the best results with it.
I tried that when I was in another city for a few month. It was all right, but I was on WiFi 5/AC and I live in a country where buildings have thick walls and sometimes there would be issue with streaming, even though I had gigabit on both sides and my desktop was/is on ethernet.
And I play strategy games, which from my understanding are better fit for streaming than most single player genres.
I found myself playing older indie games that I missed (actually found a lot of cool stuff).
I’m doing it all in-house. Once the internet gets involved, all bets are off. Even going from 2 connections in the same town on the same ISP with gigabit fiber I’ve gotten unreliable results.