Lenas
Trump's Staff
- 7,955
- 2,619
If you have a modern TV is there a reason you haven't just loaded Moonlight on it so you can just remote play from your gaming PC?
Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve
- Thread starter spronk
- Start date
If you have a modern TV is there a reason you haven't just loaded Moonlight on it so you can just remote play from your gaming PC?
Oblio
Utah
- 12,261
- 28,255
Gaming on the big screen typically means family gaming, I have have found remote gaming with multiple controllers is a cluster fuck. I have a 55" Odessey Arc in my office, so gaming solo already feels like a big screen experience. I also have a recliner in my office that I can slide over if I really feel like poop-socking.
I fully realize my gaming problems are 1st world gluttoneous american problems
Talk to me about Moonlight. I decided to try and use that instead of spending a grand on a Steam machine. I have Moonlight connected, and everything is up and running, but I am getting stuttering. My wifi is 100mbps, but is that the problem? Do I need to run Ethernet to my pc? I tried capping a game at 59fps and have Moonlight at 60fps since I heard that helps, but no dice.
Sorry to derail this thread
Lenas
Trump's Staff
- 7,955
- 2,619
Ethernet is ideal. There are diagnostic options within Moonlight settings that will show your wifi connection quality, packet loss, jitter etc though. Stuttering could be related to your bitrate or encoding options as well.
Last edited:
- 1
This is awesome, thank you. I got things a bit more stable running a low demand indi game for testing . My hardware decoder was set to auto. I I left it at that. There were only 2 options both webos xxx.
Network rtt is 5ms, host processing latency 1ms, and decoder latency is 13ms. I assume the decoder lag is still what’s causing any issues.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
- 39,840
- 18,564
- 2,679
- 13,858
Steam Machine User Faces First Case of Red Line of Death "RLOD" On His Unit Just 20 Minutes In, Indicating a GPU Failure
The first case of a Steam Machine encountering a Red Line of Death (RLOD) has been reported and indicates a GPU failure.
Anyone who has ever owned an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 should remember the RROD (Red Ring of Death) and YLOD (Yellow Light of Death), which were encountered when the hardware failed to boot.
The current consoles do feature their own system failure visualizers, such as PS4's and PS5's BLOD/WLOD, but RROD was infamous, as the console itself had to go under a massive redesign to eliminate the flaws.
Now, it's not a console, but a PC that has its own unique visualizer to indicate a hardware fault. The Steam Machine launched just recently, and the first units have already shipped to gamers, but it looks like we have our first case of a hardware fault already.
A user on the Steam Machine Reddit has posted a picture of his unit showcasing a red line of death. He states that the system was on for about 20 minutes before the RLOD appeared. The system is unable to boot.
Now, interestingly, Steam has indicated on its support page about different RLOD patterns that will appear depending on the fault. Since the user's RLOD is appearing from the middle to the right side, it indicates a GPU failure.
This means the Steam Machine will either have to be sent in for repair or the user should claim warranty since the system comes with a soldered GPU, and it's not an easy fix since the chip will need to be replaced. In any standard PC, you can simply replace a discrete graphics card with a new one.
Given the prices of Steam Machine PCs and shortages surrounding the first batch, the user will be lucky if he gets a replacement soon. Steam Machine looks good on paper, but unfortunately, its price is far from appealing, and you can get much better options for lower prices if you want to build a custom PC. Plus, the fact that SteamOS is getting supported across multiple PC platforms soon makes it even less of a reason to get the system now.
