r/SteamFrame • u/lucky_wears_the_hat • 12d ago

Question To Frame, from Deck

Can the steam deck be the computer I stream games from?

I started back into gaming at 40 when I bought a Steam Deck a couple of years ago. I commissioned a custom PC earlier this year (running a 16gb 5060ti so pretty solid) but it is in storage and I'm between primary residences for a few months.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried streaming from the Deck to frame yet? Surely right? I just haven't seen anything about it and I have been paying attention here and on YouTube. I have the 1TB deck but I'm just getting the 256gb Frame. Being able to keep my older flat games on the deck but display them on the frame would be great. A few casual VR games native on the headset to take to show it off. Then in a few months I'll see how glossy I can really get things looking with my PC. I feel like a lot of stuff I'm interested in will run well enough at pretty decent high-mid graphics settings.

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u/CmdrSoyo 12d ago

The deck has better hardware than the frame but both are still mobile devices. I assume you will be able to get a noticeable performance uplift. But i think you won't be playing alyx on ultra with 300% supersampling

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u/lucky_wears_the_hat 12d ago

I do have a decent PC, in storage. I mainly want to use my Deck to run the games already on it on the massive virtual screen and take advantage of it's much larger ssd.

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u/CmdrSoyo 12d ago

That should work fine. If it runs on the deck you'll get decent performance.

I don't know what the usb spec on the deck is, i heard some anecdotal stuff that usb 3.2 ports perform much better than usb 3.0 ports for the streaming dongle. And the deck won't be connected to ethernet so regular wifi streaming will likely also not be the best. Will need some testing though i assume virtual flatscreen streaming doesn't need as much bandwidth as full vr streaming anyway so it might be a non issue.