Working in IT and Telecom doesn't give you an edge on tech. Seems there are a lot of people in this thread that don't work in the industry that are doing just fine.

Sounds like the issue resides between the keyboard and chair.

think about your Quads man... all that stair work pays dividends in the bed room!!!

Bought this about a year ago. About 3 months ago i gave up and bought an xbox for the living room instead.

When it works it's awesome - I'm using cat 5e cable, vm 200mb, i5 gtx970 - but some days i would switch it on and i'd be making several trips up and down stairs for about an hour before i could actually play a game.

The main problems came from when things needed updates and you had to go onto the main pc to sort the issues out.
Other niggles were not being able to play origin games. I managed to get gta v and witcher 3 to work - but theyd be a hugh jarce when there were software updates.

I also wanted to love the controller, but when i switched my xbox one s on for the first time, i knew then i'd been lying to myself and the steam controller was a horrible horrible thing.

Curse your quick finger! I posted this deal less than a minute after you :stuck_out_tongue:

As mentioned in that deal, you can also get the Link and the Steam Controller in a bundle for a nice 51% off HERE or just the Steam Controller for 30% off HERE

Back to £39.99 on Steam site and Game now.
Took too long to decide :disappointed:

I think I might return this to Steam since they offer free shipping on return, and get one from Game for £8 less now they are back in stock there.

Mine came yesterday, ordered thurs night. My review is it's fantastic and much better than I expected it to be.

Edit: oh wait this is the deal from steam, I ordered mine from game for same price (minus the shipping) and cancelled my steam order

Must have been popular as there's no sign of it even shipping. Not sure which is going to come first, the hardware I ordered or buyers remorse at the reviews...

Seems obvious really, you're putting an encoding layer on top of the normal work so if you were already dropping frames you'll drop more.

I think you have some anger issues son.

great deal, literally just ordered mine. I share my flat and have my pc on the bedroom.
Still, got a 49 inch in the living room that I'd like to use for action games!
Link seems to be the solution. Noe just need to sync with the ps4 controller!
Heat added! Nice heads up!

weird comment

moron, actually the account had been hacked. Seems like the issue is you think you know it all but are clearly very stupid

Not as great as it sounds. It throttles AAA games. Read this part from a review:


PERFORMANCE & VISUAL QUALITY 

Now, we've hit a snag. Your games might be absolutely fine with Steam Link - but I've found that it does come down to the type of game you're playing. Why I've included performance and visual quality in the same category comes down to how certain games demand more from Steam Link and how it utterly fails to deliver when pushed to stream games that are AAA titles. There is obviously always a relationship between more taxing graphics and the performance you'll get from hardware. But how does this come into play when simply streaming your game to your TV? Why should that matter? 

What you'll find (and it seems to be a common problem) is that Steam Link will try to automatically downgrade the visual quality of these types of games to keep the performance fairly consistent. Your high end PC will be running the game at a steady 60FPS on your PC monitor but on your TV you'll see major dips in performance. That's unless you're willing to sacrifice both the resolution and the amount of data being transmitted through the ethernet cable into the Steam Link. 

So when I first played Rise of the Tomb Raider, I experienced a horrendous amount of artefacts (imagine you're playing the game via a 720p YouTube video). Following the advice and guidance of numerous forum posts and the advice of a Valve rep on Steam Link's forum on Steam, I was able to massively improve the visual quality but at a cost of the game's performance. A game my PC is able to run at 60FPS was suddenly barely able to reach 30FPS with dips down to 27FPS every few seconds, creating a stuttering effect when in motion/ playing. 

I had tried every combination of Steam/ Steam Link settings and advanced settings to try and improve the experience but in the end, to get the game to perform at a steady 45 FPS I had to disable a number of graphics settings and display the game at 720p. Which I could have done by purchasing the game for my PS4, saving myself all this hassle and frustration of trying to get this device to live up to what my PC is actually able to achieve. 

I've read similar anecdotes from users trying to play other hardware-taxing titles such as The Witcher 3 and so on, who must either suffer a terrible visual presentation or achieve what their PC is able to display but sacrifice performance massively until the game is almost unplayable.

IS THERE A FIX/ PLANS TO IMPROVE THIS? 

Not that I can find. You can follow the steps I have taken, take hours to try different combinations of auto-adjusting resolutions or not, allow hardware encoding or disallow, limit bandwidth and so on. Or you can buy a HDMI cable and save yourself the hassle. 

IS STEAM LINK FOR ME? 

If you enjoy titles that either don't demand much from your hardware or don't intend on offering state of the art visuals - you'll probably do just fine with this device and there's certainly a lot to appreciate about the little box. But this will absolutely not rival the experiences offered by consoles. Yes they may not achieve resolutions/ speeds that your PC can do with its hands tied behind its back, but they also do not have strange visual artefacts or consistent FPS drops. You won't have to spend hours trying to fine tune the settings to suit each game you're intending to play. 


I will conclude with this: I plan on selling Steam Link. 

yep yep yep yep heat added!

There are tutorials online on how you can remotely wake and access your PC from your phone. But yeah, still a headache to set up.

What

I'm still convinced that the new Xbox Scorpio will be a steam box :stuck_out_tongue:

apreciate this. thanks
great deal. heat added :smiley:

I bought this day one,

Really dissapointed tbh, the controller is naff - guess i couldnt get used to it.

Nvidia shield tv is by far superior for streaming steam!

I have a non-branded (read cheap) wireless adapter for using my XBOX 360 pad on PC and Raspberry Pi. The Pi has the required Driver. The PC requires I re-install the driver occasionally.

Would I be able to update drivers on this if it does not include the required driver?

You'll get some excercise going up and down the stairs. Win win

Was looking at that, but the controller on its own is only £28 so not sure I want to pay an extra £11 for the case (came to £39 delivered when I looked).

I just purchased with a controller and packaging for less than £50.

P&P was just over a tenner.

Your plasma is 1080 so yes, thats what will be shown.

From a personal, unpleasant, experience I think it's worth enabling Teamviewer to only allow internal LAN connections. Especially if you opt to sign up for a Teamviewer account.

Just a FYI - your PC needs to be "unlocked" before you can use this which makes this a right PITA if your PC is upstairs and you need to log in before you can use the steam link.

Very interested in buying one of these but is it basically will I be coming from a 1440p monitor to my 50inch 1080p plasma tv,
So when useing the steam link the resolution will be 1080p through my plasma tv ?

Nice thanks OP just ordered one already got a xbox 360 pc controller so good to go when it arrives hopefully playing classics like half life 2 on a big telly will be fun :smiley:

As what? There's a big difference between the guy with the digger who lays fibre and say a DataBase Admin. Also neither of the roles need to know anything about how to use Steam :P

I work in IT and I think Steam is brilliant, purchased this at work, had to get a new sign on code, this worked fine....

:o great price. also great piece of equipment. shame i dont use mine enough.

voted COLD in support of royals login issues lol




jk great price voted hot

I have this and the controller. The Link is 100% worth getting, especially at this price. The controller I absolutely hate and wouldn't recommend to anyone.

​It's on here today for £16 at game.... And it's hotter still btw..... Just saying if you've not seen it.

You need to chill, I recommend a sauna, or maybe even a Steam room...

There is a problem with his desk?? :innocent:

PICNIC Problems ahoi!

Anyone found a good deal on the controller + case? Steam themselves are cheap but the £10 shipping puts me off.

I have one and I love it but I'd temper the excitement a little bit. It works flawlessly with a wired network connection (I use Powerline adapters) but over wireless it's not been great to me.

I have my Steam Link approx 15 yards from my router and the lag isn't terrible, but it's definitely offputting enough to make me need a wired connection. Shorter distances for the wireless facility might be ok, but don't expect to get flawless results from one side of the house to the other.

Worth buying, definitely. Just plan ahead if your PC is far away from the intended Steam Link spot.

I take that you still cannot use XB1 or PS4 controllers wirelessly?

This is a bargain, works brilliantly with no noticeable input lag. Ive owned it since release and no regrets.

The only problem with it is the steam controller, if you can I'd recommend a different controller

Now OOS so it's the cheapest again (in the uk at least)

Got the game deal but this is a great piece of kit my advise to anyone is run tech like this on a wired connection

obviously cold if i can get it cheaper via game

Heated as it is still a great deal but ordered from Game :smiley:

Thanks for the reply :0)

This is cheaper over at game now:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/steam-link-16-delivered-game-2555202

Can I stream pcsx2 or any emulator on this?

Both. And yes that spec would be fine.

I'm sorry that you're so bitter at the world.

Do these work with ATI or Nvidea cards only?
I have a 7950 with a i5 2500k so hopefully I got enough to power this?

This is unlikely to become obsolete like OnLive because OnLive was reliant on external servers whereas this streams from your PC over your home network.

Ordered, thanks OP. Is it possible to have this running so my son can play on a TV upstairs (steam game) and I play an origin game for example on my desktop?

EDIT: Just saw that someone posted a similar question earlier.

No works with wired 360 pads and I think PlayStation also but maybe check the steam page as it lists it

And a valve - hukd deal is potent stuff!!!!!

Shopping is a drug.

I had ordered the previous amazon.com deal. Saw this on the steam page so cancelled that one.

But was in such a deal induced haze that I completely forgot to take advantage of evene the 5% off facebook code through cdkeys :/

Using my steam link as a cheap way to mirror my whole PC onto my TV. Works way better then I thought it would.

Working in IT and Telecom doesn't give you an edge on tech. Seems there are a lot of people in this thread that don't work in the industry that are doing just fine.

Sounds like the issue resides between the keyboard and chair.

Thanks purchased to try.

Flipping scorching. I paid £40 a year ago.

I was going to buy this but I think I'm a bit put off with the postage price. I have a long HDMI cable which seems to do the trick...

Steam can GET STUFFED. I work in IT and Telecom and quite frankly their sign on system is THE WORST ever invented. They should sack their architects and idiot programmers. They have lost a sale.

I tried to buy the steam link but idiotically you can ONLY buy it with an account, why? Surely I can link to an account after buying. Nope. As my son uses my main steam account, I tried to buy it via my 2nd account, but now get caught in an endless loop of requesting pass code, changing password, entering the password IDIOTIC "I am a human code" which DOESNT WORK as its designed by an idiot because it says I am entering incorrectly when its 100% correct.

Then I look for any means to contact them using my 30 sec rule to locate it, oh you need to sign on.....DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR what idiot designed that!

No obvious way to contact them, so they couldn't give a toss about customers. You know what, I couldn't give a toss about them either so stuff your product

VOTED FROZEN

HEAT :sunglasses: had to bite at this price

http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_compatible_controllers_with_Steam_Link

A lot of controllers work on this

purchased, thanks... I can now connect this to my projector.

Yes teamviewer (and other remote desktop style apps) work great from your phone/tablet to simply click whatever prompt is on your PC without getting up or going to it.


That Amazon link shows that the seller is called "BreKoo", but it is fulfilled by Amazon. However, surely £23 plus whatever shipping could possibly be is still cheaper than that for £60?


Yes, it has 3 USB ports and you can always use a hub with it if you need more.


This works fine. You can use that receiver to connect up to 4 wireless xbox 360 controllers to the single usb port, which is nice. It actually works with 3 controllers fine, and the fourth requires some initial faffing. Google will help if that's what you want to do :sunglasses:

£18.50/£19.13 on amazon.com inc tax and shipping.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/steam-link-from-amazon-com-19-13-delivered-with-mastercard-code-2554078

Can I plug in a mouse/keyboard to play strategy games?

Apparently it supports XBox 360 Wireless controllers with the Windows adaptor:
"Supports Steam Controller (sold separately,) Xbox One or 360 Wired Controller, Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows, Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710, or keyboard and mouse "
Adaptor is from around £7.50 on ebay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=xbox+360+wireless+receiver&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1
and elsewhere too:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=windows+xbox+360+receiver#tbm=shop&q=windows+xbox+360+receiver

Fantastic deal. I bought one second hand a month ago for £30. Works very well for the money.

I went to buy the controller ... £10 p&p !! Rediculous, I could buy it elsewhere for less even with the discount!

so how do these work, do i need to lunch the game on my pc? to then play it on my tv or can someone be playing another game on my pc while i play something else?

assume not that great for online shooter games due to lag?

wondering if amazon would price match, those postage costs are a bit high xD

Its when something requires admin permission you can't control it through the steam link.

Not the biggest ball ache and gaming offline has been decent enough for me over homeplugs.

Not being able to play Battlefield is another slight down but I'd rather play it at my desk anyway with a mouse. Steam link is better for single player pad games imo.

Bought this about a year ago. About 3 months ago i gave up and bought an xbox for the living room instead.

When it works it's awesome - I'm using cat 5e cable, vm 200mb, i5 gtx970 - but some days i would switch it on and i'd be making several trips up and down stairs for about an hour before i could actually play a game.

The main problems came from when things needed updates and you had to go onto the main pc to sort the issues out.
Other niggles were not being able to play origin games. I managed to get gta v and witcher 3 to work - but theyd be a hugh jarce when there were software updates.

I also wanted to love the controller, but when i switched my xbox one s on for the first time, i knew then i'd been lying to myself and the steam controller was a horrible horrible thing.

Haha no one wants bungalow thighs.

Cigbunt - teamviewer looks a genius shout.

Will use this for single player games as I doubt it will work well with online MP shooters.
Had some Steam credit purchased from CDKeys with 25% Quidco deal. Nice timing! HOT!

Just grabbed one thanks poster

I'm wary because I have an utterly useless OnLive Controller sitting in my drawer (the one that doesn't connect to anything anymore) but this is Steam the biggest gaming DRM platform in existence and well it has to last quite a few years I would think.

So it streams games from pc to a tv? Is it mirroring if so surely there would be some lag?

Do I have to use the steam controller?

Awesome price!

So good I'm almost tempted to buy another one even though I would have no use for it whatsoever! :laughing:

sweet... I got over £50 in money earnt from DOTA 2 items!!

So bloody cheap oh my god. Bought this full whack few months back.

Good bit of kit.

Curse your quick finger! I posted this deal less than a minute after you :stuck_out_tongue:

As mentioned in that deal, you can also get the Link and the Steam Controller in a bundle for a nice 51% off HERE or just the Steam Controller for 30% off HERE

This is an incredible deal. Definitely worth the money.

Full PS4 controller support is coming too (it works now but using steam controller configs).

hehe thanks :smile:

Cheapest around? It's a freaking steal. Great find, heat added :smiley: