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Half of tv is blacked out
I had this issue when I first started using it on my TV. Changed to auto fill resolution from host and gave host permissions and it fixed it. But for about a month now it went back to blacking out half the screen from the top of TV down to a little over half of the TV. Everything under that I can see. I'm on a 72 in streaming thru my directv streaming box that makes my TV into a android TV basically. I've tried basically every setting in the remote play area and can't get the TV to stream correctly anymore.
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_I_
Dec 31, 2024 @ 10:14am 
are you using the steam link android app on the tv?

tvs do not have gigabit lan port, only 100mb/s, which is not enough for steams remote play at 4k
using the link app menu before connecting to host, go to settings and limit res to 1080p
and on the host pc, steam -> settings -> remote play -> change res to match client
in some games, you will need to set the res to 1080p
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l3lackCalamity
Feb 17 @ 11:13am 
I'm having the same issue. I've played around with steam advanced host settings and every setting on the client steam link app. Still broken. Only a 480p stream works.

Network hardware is good. PC connected by Ethernet. TV box connected by Wi-Fi 6.

Video card is a 4090. Unless Nvidia released another broken driver, hardware encoding should be good.

4k TVs/TV boxes are designed to stream 4K content from Netflix and Prime. They should be able to handle a 4k steam over lan.
Last edited by l3lackCalamity; Feb 17 @ 11:28am
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Packetdancer  [developer]
Feb 17 @ 12:32pm 
Originally posted by l3lkCalamity:
I'm having the same issue. I've played around with steam advanced host settings and every setting on the client steam link app. Still broken. Only a 480p stream works.

If you can stream at a higher resolution than 480p and then grab the logs\streaming_log.txt from the host PC, that might have useful data in it.
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