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My Steam Deck should arrive in the next few weeks and once I use it a little I'm planning on selling (or donating, it's 7+ years old) my gaming PC. It's a tower case that takes up a lot of room under my desk, only serves one purpose and gets used a few hours a week. I've got a list of 20+ games I've been wanting to play but just didn't want to be stuck in front of the same monitors I use for work (I'm remote). I wonder if the Steam Deck and devices like it will change how (or more specifically where) people play PC games in the next few years.

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If your desktop is windows, you might have games that don't play perfectly or at all on Steam Deck. I haven't had major issues yet, but I've seen some glitchiness and text that is hard to read on the small screen.

Thanks. That’s one of the reasons I’m not immediately selling the gaming PC. I have a few older games that may not play well. I might still sell most of the gaming PC but keep the GPU (GTX 1070) and see if I can put it in my Proxmox server and stream it via Moonlight to my Steam Deck. I can use the Windows license from the gaming PC for a Windows VM.

I believe you can stream natively/directly from your PC to the Steamdeck using Steam. No need for other software.

People have successfully installed Windows 11 on the Deck and played games through it.

I've still got a good two dozen "Deck Verified" top-tier games to play through before I even think about it. And even then I'll rather go with a launcher that supports my Epic and GoG game libraries before resorting to Windows.

Steam play streaming from every screen I own has been really nice though. That’s what my gaming rig does, it’s not even got a primary display attached unless my remote access isn’t cutting it.

I haven’t set up moonlight or anything else except shadow, ps plus (nee now) and GeForce now, and ps remote. I have chiaki set up but sees little use except from my gpd handhelds

Damn, and that’s latency-free enough for things like FPS online multiplayer?

I can’t imagine using a wireless display for gaming. It’s bad enough just for remote access via VNC.

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