![]() ![]() Again, it's hard to say if this issue has to do with the app, the Apple TV box, or the controller itself, but something still needs some work. With my physical Steam Link box, I don't recall ever having issues pairing a wireless controller to it. So I'd have to try again, sometimes repeatedly. Usually it spotted the controller right away, but occasionally it took several tries, and once or twice after it had detected the controller, I'd answer the prompt to pair the controller only to find it hadn't paired. I had issues pairing my Steam controller with the Apple TV box a number of times this week. I unplugged my Ethernet cable and tried the same games over my 5GHz wi-fi connection, and not unexpectedly the performance wasn't quite as smooth, though everything I tried was still highly playable. I can imagine it would be frustrating in a competitive match. These little skips didn't make the game unplayable, but it's neither as smooth as it is on my PC or on the Steam Link. Playing Rocket League online on my TV, I had occasional dropped frames or stutters now and then, though it's hard to say where the problem lies-with my connection, with the Steam beta I had to opt into for these tests, with the app itself, or the Apple TV box. A network testing option will tell you if your system will be able to handle running the Steam Link or if you'll need to make some adjustments in the options menu. It’s clear that everybody wants to turn 2019 into the year of cloud gaming.There are settings in the app for streaming quality: you can choose from Fast, Balanced, or Beautiful (I swapped between Balanced and Beautiful a few times, without noticing any change in visual or performance quality), you can set bandwidth limits from 3 MBit/s to unlimited, and you can limit the resolution, if native res is too taxing for your connection. Google also has been teasing its Game Developers Conference to learn more about its gaming projects. Microsoft recently showed off Forza Horizon 4 running on an Android phone thanks to Project xCloud. That would turn Steam Link Anywhere into a Shadow competitor. ![]() Now let’s see if Valve plans to flip the switch and let you run Steam games on a server in a data center near you. If you don’t have a fiber connection at home, the latency might simply be too high to play any game. With Steam Link Anywhere, your performance will vary depending on your home internet connection. Steam Link works fine on a local network, especially if you use Ethernet cables between all your devices. You can start Steam on your computer and play demanding PC games on other screens. Unfortunately, Valve still hasn’t found a way to release its Steam Link app on the App Store for iOS devices and the Apple TV. You can now download the Steam Link app on an Android phone, an Android TV device or a Raspberry Pi. While Valve might be done on the hardware side, the company is still iterating on Steam Link apps. The company’s strategy is a bit puzzling here as Valve recently discontinued its hardware set-top box, the Steam Link. As the name suggests, it lets you turn your gaming PC into a cloud gaming server and stream games from… anywhere. As PC Gamer spotted, the company quietly released a beta version of Steam Link Anywhere. Valve doesn’t want to miss the cloud gaming bandwagon.
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