I just got a Steam Deck for this purpose, replacing my older stream-only Steam Link.
Yeah, I wish something like the Steam Link existed that I could just “send” my computer to the TV without a cable.
Steam cancelled the Link and focused on the Deck specifically because there were plenty of alternatives available. You can get the Steam Link app on some Smart devices directly, or it can run on a phone/tablet/other computer. There are some dedicated devices available too. Notably, NVIDIA Shield apparently can do it.
Since July (when this thread started), I went from playing Civ 6, Cities: Skylines & Borderlands 3, to playing a little SWTOR, then a lot of SWTOR, and that’s pretty much all I’m playing now. Mostly just replaying old games until the Alpha 2 for Ashes of Creation starts up, which will hopefully happen some day.
I did find this article:
For whatever reason I distinctly remember some issue about audio not working via hdmi if you connected…I forget what devices…but thinking about it now that makes no sense. TVs get audio via hdmi all the time. In my memory it was connecting PC to monitor with hdmi sent no audio to the monitor, but I can find nothing on google to support that issue being a thing. May be an “alternate ending to Big” kind of memory.
Anyway, the linked article seems to indicate you need to switch your Windows audio playback device via the control panel. Hopefully you haven’t tried that yet and it fixes you right up.
Thanks! I’ve tried that, and I actually can get sound to come through just fine–but when I enable sound, the screen drops connection constantly. It may be that I have a janky or outdated HDMI cable.
Worth a shot, certainly.
EDIT: I think my faulty memory was actually about DVI, not HDMI. I was still using DVI up until almost two years ago, and my memory of the issue is from like a decade ago.
So my husband and I just picked up Diablo 3 again after a looooong break and boy are we having fun. The Seasons with rotating challenges keep things surprisingly fresh and holy shit the Necromancer is probably the coolest class I’ve ever played. You get to hurl the corpses of your slain foes at other foes! I didn’t expect to be having this much fun with it again. I still remember taking the day off from work when it was released in 2012. I gotta hand it to Blizzard for giving the game such extensive replayability. My husband still plays Diablo II (obviously he had to check out the remastered version, but there was no couch co-op so I suggested D3.) I can’t wait for D4 next year (please next year…)
There are a few games I bought at the tail end of the Xbox 360 era where I’m kicking myself because they aren’t compatible with the Xbox One. Diablo 3 is one of them (Dragon Age: Inquisition and GTA V are the other big ones). I should have waited and bought the Xbox One version instead.
There’s a PC version! If you are so inclined.
I’m usually too cheap to buy two versions of the same game! Maybe if it came bundled with something else that I don’t have (which is why I have multiple copies of Borderlands, for instance).
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I beat Persona 5 Royal in 85 hours and it was tremendous. An absolute “top JRPG of all time” candidate. Highly recommended for everyone.
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I began Dragon Quest Treasures, which I won through a Youtube contest. It’s a grind and I’m selling my copy.
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I began Persona 5 Strikers, which is very different but seems fun.
I bought that but I had a hard time with the overlong agency-limiting tutorial. Did you also experience the beginning of the game as tedious, and it just got really good afterwards? Or is it more likely that it is not for me?
It opens up and gives you a lot of freedom, but it does take a bit longer than some games. In terms of calendar days in the game, by the end of April(before that, actually), you gain full control.
Still going strong with Raft but ran into a minor bummer tonight. After spending the better part of a month coming up with the perfect raft design, I couldn’t come up with a name for my world. Finally I decided on “87 Foundations”, which I rather like.
(There is a game mechanic based on how many foundation pieces you have on your raft, so it’s actually a meaningful number.)
Tonight I progressed far enough where I could buy a foundation calculator, which tells you how many foundations are on your raft. The number didn’t match my calculation.
Turns out I forgot the center square of my raft. In reality it has 88 foundations. Doh! Not only would that be a shit name, it’s making me look side-eye at my entire design.
Stupid nazis ruin everything.
I put about 55hrs into Asterigos: Curse of the Stars, an action-adventure Souls-Lite with a Dreamworks-esque aesthetic. You’re a pseudo-Viking teenage girl exploring a cursed pseudo-Greek city trying to find out what happened to your father who was previously sent there on a mission. Combat involves six different weapons you can skill up and equip two at a time, plus skill trees and attribute increases. Parry/Counterattack and Roll-Dodge with an endurance bar for that Soulsy feel but much less punishing. Although there’s modes Easy-Hard and additional items you can equip to lower your stats for the truly hardcore, I found base Normal to be an entertaining enough for my casual self, usually able to take out the 20ish bosses in a couple attempts each.
Besides that, there’s a lot of side questing you can do. You can probably blitz the main story in 20-25hrs but I spent 55hrs doing most of the content but skipping the 100% completions like finding/reading every document and still had some quest items rattling around my bag at the end. Speaking of, the game is WAY into its own lore with tons of exposition and readables so, if you’re not into that, you’ll be rolling your eyes and pressing Skip a lot. The world is technically open in that you could run from one end of the game map to the other by the end but it’s broken into regions and you’ll mainly be making use of the teleport hubs scattered throughout.
My main criticisms with the game were a couple of regions were pretty annoying (the mines & caverns: full of various traps, ambushes and fall dangers), the side quests system is barely existent leaving you to noodle out or Google what to do with this cracked pen and flask of Stardust wine, and the sound sometimes acted weird spatially – I’d be attacking someone in front of me and it would sound like he was behind me through my headphones. Performance was smooth (1440p maxed with a i7-13700k & RTX 3080Ti) and I didn’t notice any bugs.
The game is holding a Very Positive on Steam with over 1,100 ratings so, if it’s the sort of game you like, might be worth wishlisting for its next sale.
I started an investigation game called The Painscreek Killings and I’m not sure what I think. I’m annoyed by the creepy music, which I guess makes sense because murder, but I’m not really playing this murder game to be creeped out, I’m just interested in the mystery. (Subnautica did the same thing, with creepy-ass sounds that were so stressful I didn’t want to play the game anymore.) And when l turn the music off, there’s still a crackling sound, which reminds me of Silent Hill and is even worse.
So far it’s just wandering around abandoned buildings and following obvious clues. I don’t hate it though. I like discovering new information about the case and having to piece things together.
I put Kingmaker on hold after playing it for roughly 140 hours (60 hours with my first character, 80 hours after restarting with another character). I think I’m about 80% done, but I was getting burned out on it.
I’m recharging my batteries by playing a bit of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel again.
Zombie Night Terror. Picked it up during the Steam Winter Sale for a crazy low price, like a buck and change, but didn’t play it until this weekend. Fun little game, made to resemble an 80s zombie movie rendered in pixel graphics, and you control the zombies. Your goal is simply to kill all the humans. I love a good “you’re the villain” game.
Have you ever played Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse?