Before I spend tons of time trying to debug some intermittent connectivity issues I wanted to ask if some of you were also on the beta channel and experienced issues with streaming since yesterday. I think my issues started around when the update for the Frame arrived, but I was also trying out a seated game outside my normal play area so I don’t have a perfect apples to apples comparison. For me its about 80% smooth sailing but sometimes I get a 5-20 second dropout in visuals, not the usual second or two I get when I turn my head too fast (that is probably caused by my subpar WiFi which we currently don’t have a setting to disable for streaming). These dropouts don’t return me to the passthrough as would be expected, they last for much longer, and happens out of the blue, even if I don’t turn my head risking destabilising the 6GHz connection.

  • oatscoop@midwest.social
    1·
    6 days ago

    I’m running:

    • Fedora 44 on AMD CPU/GPU
    • Dedicated Wifi 6 travel router with only the Frame connected wirelessly
    • Travel router WAN port to home network
    • PC - > USB ethernet adapter - > ethernet cable -> travel router
    • Steam Link dongle connected through a 3’ USB 3.0 extension cable.

    The weird thing I notice with this update is suddenly the dongle is really picky about what USB port it’s plugged into. And before anyone says anything: they’re identical USB 3.2 ports on the same controller.

    I’ll get frame drops, artifacts, and screen tearing if the ethernet adapter is in port “1” and the dongle is in port “2”. If I flip them and restart Steam VR it works perfectly.

  • mtlvmpr@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    It’s pretty awful now. My gf was trying out Beat Saber streamed from her PC for the first time and she said that it was absolutely awful with artifacts all over. I then spent some time troubleshooting it since I “knew” that it worked well for me just yesterday but when I tried playing Blade & Sorcery today I saw what she meant. Absolutely unplayable with the streamed dashboard jittering around and the stream turning into mush and the camera was jumping all over the place.

    USB dongle was quite similar experience and the Wi-Fi7 AP I have next to the play space has 6GHz band.