Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sonofearth@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I am running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma (wayland).

Today I discovered Steam Link. I enabled it and worked flawlessly with Steam games. But it showed a black screen for non-steam games (lutris shortcuts specifically) although the input did work. I thought it was a wayland issue and I was right as I immediately installed & switched to X11 session and I was able to see the game. I don’t know if it is an x11 issue but my Laptop’s (host) fans were running pretty fast and sometimes games were just crashing or refused to launch (which rarely happens on wayland). I doubt that just the addional overhead of steamlink is causing these issues (although I won’t reject that possibility) given I have pretty decent hardware — ryzen 9 8945h, rtx 4070 8gb laptop gpu, 32 gigs of ram.

Also on x11 a lot of display settings seem to be missing. I don’t want to keep x11 just for playing non steam games via steam link. So is there a way to play non-steam games via steam link on wayland session?

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jwiggler@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If you just discovered Steam Link and you’re not married to it, you could use Sunshine as your gamestreaming host and Moonlight as the client. you can set it up so that you can launch Steam Big Picture on your host and play any games that are listed under your steam, even if they are non-steam games.

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C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You can run Moonlight on your Steam Link and stream anything you want. I haven’t used it in awhile, but I remember it being less laggy than streaming through Steam.

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chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Are the games launching via xwayland when they’re not working? Are they displaying normally on your desktop monitor, but just not streaming correctly?

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