Weird question probably but here goes :

I'm discovering the joy of having a Dock, it's great!

But what's even better is I can just get my PC to stream more powerful games to my Deck (that the Deck would otherwise struggle with)

It works flawlessly (zero input delay, or rather not noticeable), better than Steam Link / Remote Play (I get input delay on this), and I haven't tried Moonlight

It's also so much more convenient than moving my PC to the living room (where the TV is) and plugging it there!

So I'm like wow Order of the Sinking Star is awesome, but what if I played games that my Deck sometimes has trouble with? Like I could run Witcher 3 Remastered with some better settings!

So I guess I'm not asking for great Steam Deck games, it's more like, what are games that my PC could run that feel great on controller, that I would stream to my Docked Deck?

Thanks!!

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[–] 5 points 6 hours ago* (3 children)

This is my exact setup at the moment. I've been playing a bunch of Rogue Driving, Elite Dangerous and Succubus Successor: Delilah's Juicy Journey.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    I've been playing Final Fantasy XVI like this and it's been perfect. It just became Deck verified very recently but that's a stretch.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    The answer is really just any game that is well suited to controller + TV. The aspect of streaming to the Deck is largely irrelevant since, as you mentioned, the experience feels so close to native.

    I used this type of setup to pkay Harold Halibut, the Quantic Dream games (Detroit, Beyond Two Souls, Heavy Rain), Elden Ring (+ other soulsborne), and anything else that doesn’t run at its full potential directly on the Deck.

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  • [–] 36 points 18 hours ago (23 children)

    Here's a suggestion that doesn't even begin to address your question, have you considered a long HDMI cable to connect your TV in your lounge to your PC directly? Best of both worlds, comfortable seat in front of the TV, no input delay, play anything your PC can handle without middlemaning through the deck.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 18 hours ago (21 children)

    No that's a great idea, and I agree that would be ideal ; the only problem is that the layout of the place doesn't really work, lemme do a quick floor plan on paint

    idk if attaching an hdmi cable to the ceiling would work

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  • [–] 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (5 children)

    I don't think anyone has mentioned this but HDMI is just Cat-6 with a fancy hat. You can run cat-6 cabling through your attic, down the walls, etc., as if you were setting up a standard Ethernet run. Then, slap some rj-45 to hdmi adapters on each, and voila! Or you could just put proper hdmi heads on the cable ends and skip the adapters.

    EDIT: Amazon product link with diagrams.

    https://a.co/d/02iebocu

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

    Hdmi is not like cat 6. Hdmi 2.2 has bandwidth of like 96Gb/s. Youre not going to be transmistting raw video and audio over cat cable. (You might get hdmi 1.4 over it)

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    But if OP was fine with wifi streaming not going to get HDMI 2.2 quality anyways, and it’s hard finding hardware for it on pcs still.

    It comes down to what trade offs OP is willing to make, and for many would be a viable option.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 minutes ago*

    Wifi streaming uses efficient compression to shove video and audio over ethernet, and easily achieve 4k @60hz, at the cost of lower bitrates. But For 4k @60 you need atleast hdmi 2.0, which is common in any gpu made in the pass 10 years.

    If op is fine with 1080p @ 60, then hdmi 1.4 is enough. Also, they make hdmi over optical, so would you chose using cat cable?

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  • [–] 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    If you measure it and it is less than 10m (the physical limit of hdmi without a repeater) then you might consider a floor cable canal. They usually come in a variety of colors, don't require adheisive or screwing and are just simple things to keep people from tripping on cables

    I have one of these on a doorway, to connect a pc to a tv and it works good enough

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Didn't think of a cable canal at all, and there's a doorway along the wall perpendicular to the TV so it would fit nicely there, I'll think about it thanks!

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    By the way just because the official limit for HDMI is 10m, that doesn't mean that a longer cable can't work. I've been running a projector for decades, which was connected with a15m cable for literal decades. It might work, it might not, you'll know when you try.

    Usually the link either works or it doesn't. The picture doesn't get bad. It's a digital signal, it either gets decoded correctly or not. In rare edge cases you might get a signal to drop occasionally though if it's too long.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    Search for 'Active optical HDMI cable 20m', you'll be greatful for extra on each end and the cable is very thin cable, just never kink it. You can get up to 48Gbps 8k 60hz 12 bit color depth. This cable would be easy to hide under a rug or tack along the floor board around the walls or even ceil.

    If you don't need crazy resolution and frame rates you can get wireless HDMI extenders but they can get pricey.

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    Could you swap the tv and seating so the tv is on the same wall as computer?

    The cat 5e / cat 6 hdmi adapters are incredibly cool! If you can run above, below, or around this would be a great solution too.
    (Please don’t run wiring under carpet for everyone’s safety).

    *Yes, I know HDMI is low voltage, but I’d rather people takeaway the “don’t do this” vs. the nuanced risk.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    If you are in US, you can buy a 48gbps 50 meter fiber hdmi for 200 bucks, and run it along the bottom of walls from pc to tv and put some masking tape on it.

    https://a.co/d/0j6wplnq

    Expensive, but would work nicely. There would still be question of wireless controller working since there’s a wall b/w tv & pc.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm not but I can probably find something similar in western Europe! Thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago*

    50 m fiber optic would be a nice clean option with it possibly having enough length to use some cable clip adhesives to clip along the baseboards instead of taking the direct straight route to the TV where people would be walking over the cable.

    These are the type of clips I used to secure my fiber optic hdmi cable to the baseboard to the TV.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2xP4cWoJtU

    If you want it to be less visible you could use cable raceways, but I was lazy and didn't feel like spending more than I had to.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJVZtEhSgU

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  • [–] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Steam has a list of games that are "Controller Friendly". I mean the Library view in Steam client, next to "All Games" list. On your Steam Deck it lists games that are verified for Steam Deck, but on PC client it lists games that are Controller friendly in general.

    You can create a custom Collection for that too, a list that is available on all systems you log in. Go to "All Games" view, click "Fliter" (or X button), scroll down to "Hardware support" and enable filter "Full Controller Support". Scroll down and click "Save as Dynamic Collection". Name it and save it. Now this is a dymanic collection, which means it will automatically expand with new added games that fit this criteria. I would say all games from this list should fit your requirement and use case of being playable with a gamepad.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    This is the first time I've thought about this, but you've made me think I should try this games like Kao or Bubsy4D or even just R&C Rift Apart.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    I streamed Expedition 33 to my deck when it was my shift during the night to look after our newborn whilst they were sleeping.

    Honestly can't remember much of it since that period of time was a blur, but what I do know is the streaming worked great, although I had to change a couple of settings as games would sometimes freeze. I think it was something to do with the encoding and decoding, so you may have to look at that if you have the same issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    The new star Wars racer would probably be dope, or one of the Redout games. You could see if Elden Ring will run with the full graphics instead of the fog version it usually plays at on the deck.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    edit: These run natively, I misread your post. Apologies.

    Vampire Survivors

    Slay the Spire

    Children of Morta

    Dead Cells

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Currently using sunshine/moonlight to my Rog Ally for Dawnwalker. I also use my Xbox with moonlight to stream occasionally. Just about any Unreal engine game runs rough on handhelds due to stuttering, so I use my desktop and stream it. The vast majority of the games I play work great with a controller.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    When I was injured civ 6 on a controller was a great time to just sit and play and enjoy.

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    In my time I have found that as long as the game isn't terrible controls, and isn't extremely latency dependent (you could try enabling Pyrowave codec in steams streaming or try Sunshine to bypass steams streaming) then the real limitation is being able to see the menus from the couch! Lots of modern games get this right, especially if they already have console ports, but sometimes you just can't read the stinking menus!

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