Yeah, I really wanted to like my Link, but it was plagued by random FPS lag spikes that made it unplayable. Sometimes a game running at a perfect 60FPS would just suddenly drop to like 2-3FPS for a minute or more. In my router and on my PC’s traffic data, I could see my PC was still sending the same amount of data to the Link. And on the Link, I could see it was receiving the data. So everything was sending and receiving just fine. But the FPS would just suddenly tank for no discernible reason. It made the Link unusable after a while. And the only real response I ever got from Steam about it was “have you tried updating the firmware on your Link?”
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 days agoThe only thing ever called a Steam Machine before was the PC architecture they tried to push over a decade ago that was more or less just cheaper PCs of various builds that all ran on the original SteamOS. None of them were made or sold by Valve itself.
The only other steam hardware that was cancelled was the Link; because you can do what it did through an app without the need for specialized hardware now.
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fartsparkles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.
Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.