high latency and high compression with steam link app on raspberry pi

[Funnysubject]

so basically what i am doing is using a raspberry pi with the steam link app to put games onto my tv. Because my internet speed is not even close to be doing steam link wirelessly I have connected an ethernet cable to the raspberry pi directly from my computer. And I figured that since it is connected directly with a cat5e cable that there would be next to 0 compression and next to 0 latency but there is so much playing racing games is nearly impossible

 

I can send photos if you want me to of my setup btw.

[Alex Kovacs]

If your Raspberry Pi is connected directly to the computer then my guess is that the Raspberry Pi can't keep up with the task of decoding the incoming video. I have a small Android TV stick and I can play games via Steam Link on it just fine (latency isn't noticeable) - played NFS Heat, CarX Drift Racing, Euro Truck Simulator 2,  Shadow of War and much more on it with no problems.

[Funnysubject]

9 minutes ago, Alex Kovacs said:

If your Raspberry Pi is connected directly to the computer then my guess is that the Raspberry Pi can't keep up with the task of decoding the incoming video. I have a small Android TV stick and I can play games via Steam Link on it just fine (latency isn't noticeable) - played NFS Heat, CarX Drift Racing, Euro Truck Simulator 2,  Shadow of War and much more on it with no problems.

thanks for the advice, i will try a different power adpater because right now it is plugged into the tvs usb port so i will try a dedicated power adapter

[Alex Kovacs]

Just now, Funnysubject said:

thanks for the advice, i will try a different power adpater because right now it is plugged into the tvs usb port so i will try a dedicated power adapter

You didn't specify which Raspberry Pi you own but that definitely sounds like a potential problem, especially if you have the 4.

[Funnysubject]

1 minute ago, Alex Kovacs said:

You didn't specify which Raspberry Pi you own but that definitely sounds like a potential problem, especially if you have the 4.

currently using raspberry pi 3 model b