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While obviously not the twitchiest of games, and thus free from any network-induced latency (reduced by going through Ethernet), it seems to provide results equivalent to Valve's hardware. Only five minutes of setup, and they were happily simulating cultists in Cultist Simulator.

The official Raspberry Pi blog took a look at the Steam Link software in beta, and were very pleased with it. For those late to the party, Steam Link is a local streaming solution, letting you tunnel through your LAN or Wi-Fi to play games from your desktop via your TV in another room. Formerly released on Android (although not iOS due to Apple being grumpy gits), this new version is version 3B or 3B+ of everyone's tiny PCB powerhouse system, favoured by tech-tinkerers worldwide. You can install Steam Link using the apt packages manager and by entering the code for the Steam Link application on the Steam client software you can share the screen of your PC.The Link is dead, long live the Link! Valve's official Steam Link hardware may now be discontinued, but its software heart lives on, and now free on the Raspberry Pi. One thing that you should remember is that the Raspberry Pi buster version supports the Steam Link application so if you have Bullseye then unfortunately you cannot run Steam Link. Sharing displays to other devices can be done by using several applications but to play games, Steam Link is the best application.

So, this is how you can connect your Raspberry Pi to a PC or a TV, this way the screen of your PC is shared on a Raspberry Pi display. Once you have opened the Steam application on your PC go into the setting options by clicking in the gear option and select the “Computer” option as in the image below :Ĭlick on the computer name to connect the Raspberry Pi with your computer, you can also click on the “Network Test” to see if the network speed is good enough to play games:Īfter you are all set click on the “Start Playing” option:Įnter the code displayed by the Steam Link application on your PC:Īfter entering the code Raspberry Pi screen will be shared to your PC or TV: Next, it will automatically scan for the computer running if not you can click on “Rescan” it or “Skip” the option and do it later, remember that the computer you want to connect should be running steam client application: After the installation is complete Steam Link will open and click on “Get Started”:Īfter that you can either pair controllers to play the game or can also click in the “Skip” button if you are going to pair it later: