• CaptDust
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    If your setup works for you I wouldn’t bother changing, but for me going from steam link to deck has been night and day. Running the games locally has been a massive experience improvement for couch coop, while the portability is great for unwinding away from my desk. No input lag, no weird video artifacts, things like that made it worth running locally for me.

    Running the games locally also provides the ability to play games without an Internet connection, like at a park or cafe.

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      Thanks for the explanation! That makes a lot of sense, and I’ll have to give it some thought.

      Running the games locally has been a massive experience improvement for couch coop

      Can you explain this one a bit more? Can you connect multiple together, like a WLAN party, or do you mean like playing the same online game together on a couch?

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        Wellll you could connect multiple together like a WLAN, but I meant specifically local multiplayer on a single system. Games like KeyWe, It Takes Two, Sackboy big adventure, overcooked, etc is my main use for having my deck docked.

        When streaming games with 4 bluetooth controllers going there was a lot of input delay, that problem has been totally solved by running locally on the deck. Of course I could have probably built a gaming capable HTPC or similar, the deck is just a PC after all.

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          Hmm, I had been thinking about building/getting an SFF PC for streaming, but maybe this would be a good option…

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        I’m not sure about their response, but I’ve had success using it with a usb adapter to play couch coop on a tv without needing a dedicated console.