The case is the jonsbo T9 it was a pain to build in but very high quality solid aluminum and real wood

I wanted to share some settings that I was able to tweak to optimise performance while using steam remote play on my custom SteamOS PC. I have been using sunshine/apollo with moonlight for years now but I wanted to test the improvements with remote play so I can utilize my steam controller and the overlay properly. This took a ton of trial and error and YMMV.

On the SteamOS host:

-Go to the Remote Play tab>allow direct connection>set to "All devices"

-enable advanced host options

-Prioritize network traffic> On

-hardware encoding>turn off (AMD doesn't handle the encoding as well so software does fine)

-video>fast

-Bandwidth Limit>choose between 40-50mb/s. this allows the other elements besides video to have proper buffer time and prevents weird latency issues. Very important and somewhat opposite from moonlight so be sure not to overlook this.

-Framerate Limit> Manually set instead of auto

-Resolution limit> Manually set instead of auto

-Hardware decoding> Off

-HEVC video> On

-Low Latency Networking> On

-Under the "Settings" main tab, enable Developer mode

-Under "Developer" tab, disable Wifi Power Management to prevent wifi related studdering

-Press the (...) button to bring up the overlay menu

-Disable frame limit here and let the games limit the frame limit without using vsync

-Allow Tearing> On

-Enable VRR and HDR> On if your hardware supports it

On the SteamOS Client:

-Go to the Remote Play tab

-Connection Options>Allow Direct Connection>change from "Auto" to "All Devices"

-Turn on Advance Client Options

-Video> Fast

-Bandwidth Limit> 40-50Mb/s for the same reasons above

-Framerate Limit> Manually set

-Resolution Limit> Manually set

-Hardware Decoding> Off

-HEVC Video> On

-Low Latency Networking> On

-Navigate to the "Settings" tab and enable Developer Mode

-Under "Developer" tab, disable Wifi Power Management

If your client is using the Steam Link App:

-Go to Streaming>Customise

-Video> Fast

-Bandwidth Limit> 40-50Mb/s

-Framerate Limit> Manually set

-Resolution Limit> Manually set

-HEVC> Enable

-Audio Buffer Size> Change from "Auto" to 40ms. This is also super important to prevent latency issues, so don't skip this step.

-Allow Direct Connection> Change from auto "All Devices"

Hopefully this provides a foundation of the settings for people interested in trying steam remote play with the newly added improvements. From here, you can try optimizing further depending on your own hardware configurations.

I have a 5070Ti bur i want to.go full AMD because of Linux smoothness and optimization.

Now looking for console experience... Wich OS should I choose?

I'm confused at to the different SteamOS versions that are currently in active development. 3.8 brought a lot of fixes for handheld devices. Now 3.9 seems to be getting lots of updates but are the fixes in 3.8 included there or are they two separate tracks? Do I need to keep track myself if there's features in one or the other that is feel is required for my setup?

So sometimes when I want to access that menu it glitches and freezes up. Game runs fine in the background but nothing else works. Controller or keyboard does not response. Can only use mouse pointer.
SteamOS stable version nothing extra installed
9070xt ( undervolted)
9800x3d
32Gb ram 2tb NVMe drive.

Looking for some advice,

SteamOS was working fine on my desktop for months, and just over the last few weeks my ethernet seems to be extremely spotty during the day. Goes down for hours.

I have:
reinstalled drivers
given desktop priority + reserved its IP
tried different ethernet cables
tried different ports on the switch
attempted a large swath of terminal command (thought mostly from copilot so might be garbage) for bringing the network online/reinstalling drivers/forcing connection etc

I have a wifi card which is getting me by when its offline but wifi is much slower than ethernet ofcourse.

Im at the point where everything leads to the realtek drivers my motherboard uses being incompatible and a problem, and no matter what work arounds I try I seem to just get stuck.

The most frustrating part is it does eventually just come back online in the evenings or weekends (thought it was my work pc when working from home causing DHCP issues but thats ruled out too)

Motherboard is a Asus Prime B840M-A Wifi and Im pretty sure my next step is just buy a new mobo

Any help is appreciated.

Ever since booting up my ROG Ally X on the previous SteamOS version nothing works in desktop mode anymore. Inside of the settings app it said no controller found and even with the Steam app running it won’t work. I just updated to the most current stable branch and now even the entire option to configure a controller for desktop functions is gone from systems settings AS WELL AS inside of the Steam application.

This means that besides only using gaming mode, my system is bricked as I cannot do anything besides touching the screen there.

Have you guys any tips on what to do? I restarted and did everything bar reimaging the system.

Please I am at my wits end here and honestly kinda frustrated.

I am sure that I could try to reimage Steam OS and wipe the system by after installing terabytes of mods and customizations it would be easier for me to just discard the whole ROG Ally X and give up. I had to do just that when windows BSOD on me and I not even the reimage from ASUS would make me boot into windows anymore which is why I tried to salvage the system by installing SteamOS which worked for a year now without a hitch.

Hey all,

I built a steam machine from microcenter bundles. Many parts have rgb in them. - Fans, cooler, case, ram sticks.

I have been using openrgb to control the lights to a solid color. When I turn on/wake from sleep openrgb does not keep the profile and it's back to rainbows until manually go to desktop mode and select load profile again.

So I just downloaded decky loader and huesync, and it actually shows up in the decky loader menu, but nothing changes when I am changing settings.

My end goal is to just have the lights be a solid color when I wake and not have to manually fix it everytime.

Any advice?

Before you come after me I’m a student going back to college and was looking for deals online for laptops because my old one (6 years) can’t even play most online games and found this online for 600 euro.
I had no idea a Chromebook was a separate thing from laptops and no I did not know it’s just a glorified iPad with a keyboard built in that freezes its screen when a plus in anything in a port other that a charger such as a wired mouse and a USB but the only way I’ve found I can access it is via remote link but I can’t switch it over fully from the old laptop. I’ve looked online for some process but it’s either not the right model of its advice from Covid.i mainly bought it for college but I was hoping to be able to play online with friends, something I haven’t been able to since my laptop just dosent work for a few years due to wither graphics, ram or just bullshit.
I’m not a huge computer person either so I can’t do super complex stuff to fit it either.Be honest because I’m thinking of taking it back
Here is the model and make:
Lenovo Ideapad Flex 514” 2in1 Chromebook Plus

I have been playing Kingdom Hearts on Steam OS. Regardless of the Proton settings and the game frame rate and refresh rate settings, the game often crashes after pausing to save or doing anything and pausing. After running some commands, I found out that it's not simply a game crash, but at GPU driver issue. The GPU is running on stock settings, so it's not anything about that.

After doing some research, I found out that the game was known to have some issues with RDNA3 GPUs; is that still the case? Is there any fix?

Thank you for your time.

I can only get it fullscreen on native resolution on desktop but I want to display as 1280x800 but it does this?

I've been console gaming my whole life and just got a PC with Steam OS and need a guide on how to start modding.