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steam link/remote play no longer working with steam deck desktop mode
starting today, i am now getting an error

Capture Failed
Restart Steam on the remote computer with the -pipewire command line option to enable video capture under Wayland.

i never had this problem before. i am on the preview branch because i have a steam controller to keep up with updates.

i tried closing steam and editing the .desktop shortcut with the -pipewire command but it still gives the same error

just to add, since i was told before to just use steam's built-in remote play. it is the same when using remote play on steam

i am using steam beta for the same reason, steam controller
Last edited by emsee; Jun 2 @ 11:45am
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Packetdancer  [developer]
Jun 2 @ 12:03pm 
Yeah, there's a known issue where Pipewire capture was not working properly on desktop Steam Deck in preview builds -- there's a fix but it hasn't yet made it into the Steam beta builds. Should be fixed soon.

This didn't affect you previously because the Deck defaulting to Wayland for desktop is a recent change (I don't even think it's in the Stable images yet, just in the beta ones).

In the meantime, if you want a workaround until the fix is in Steam, you can swap back to the X11 desktop mode for a session by opening a terminal and doing:

steamos-session-select plasma

That'll flip you from Wayland to X11 for the remainder for that desktop session, and streaming will work again.
Last edited by Packetdancer; Jun 2 @ 12:04pm
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emsee
Jun 2 @ 6:05pm 
This didn't affect you previously because the Deck defaulting to Wayland for desktop is a recent change (I don't even think it's in the Stable images yet, just in the beta ones).

ok, assumed it was due to betas. thank you for the quick reply and solution
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