i hope it’s not a flop like the shitty Flow while also being >$600

You still have a lot of devices that run steam link, so that's not a showstopper luckily

If they kill it entirely thats fine, someone has already made a 3rd party clone called sunshine. Pairs perfectly with moonlight which is basically the client side software used by the shields. Supports pretty much any os as well.

Got a link?

For nvenc there's a dedicated part of certain Nvidia cards that use that instead of using the general GPU resources. IIRC.

I use my steam link to play virtual dnd where my rig runs the server and I have my link on a TV in my dnd area

Oh that’s really cool. I’ve always just used steam on non-Nvidia devices so it wasn’t an option

And the Steam Link hardware is no longer being produced. I have one, it’s great, but it’s not like valve is releasing better versions

Yes but this article says its killing gamestream on shield. If they kill it period Im going to be very pissed

Can I download Steam games on the Nvidia Shield?

You can set steam to use the Nvidia encoder.

Moonlight uses nvidia gamestream

Oh don’t. Let this fad with hr die

It depends on the game. Multiplayer games with battle passes and microtransactions yes. But there's tons of quality single player games out there.

The thing people forget is that arcade games were addicting, and designed to be. They were relatively short high score challenges with a high difficulty. That's a lot more addictive than a modern single player game with chapters/missions and a definitive end.

Parsec is by far the best streaming program I've used. Works with everything.

I disagree, arcades were far more expensive per hour for the vast majority of people ("Just one more quarter and I'll win"), even at prices of games back then. They were also much more addictive, consisting of short simple challenges and playthroughs but with a high difficulty curved. They were 100% engineered to get a player addicted.

With today's prices you can buy an average game on sale for like 30 attempts (25 cents is the 80's is nearly a dollar today).

You could easily bankrupt yourself from it, hell there's even a SpongeBob episode about it.

Also once you had the ability to save, you could turn it off and walk away without losing your current attempt.

Considering you've got to have a $$$$ card to effectively use ray tracing it's pretty much useless for me

Hey man, just use Moonlight instead. It'll push 4K 120 HDR

That and alyx may change your mind

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Yea parsec is much better than moonlight for me.

In what world do they consider Geforce Now an alternative? I don't get this.

this is why I don’t buy into this crap

Sunshine + steam big picture cause my amd drivers to crash minutes into playing any game. I was thinking about switching to an nvidia card to have native moonlight support. This sucks.