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Is building a PC to stream to a handheld a bad idea? (self.PCGaming)

submitted 1 year ago by Elkenders to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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I've always wanted to build a little PC, but I don't have space or time to play games other than on a handheld on the sofa. I've been playing Xbox Game Pass on my Retroid Pocket 3 Plus and it's been really good, but I'm wondering if a gaming pc streamed locally would be cheaper in the long run. It'd live under the TV and very rarely get used with a controller on the telly, almost always streamed to a little handheld.

Alternative is Steam Deck, which looks good, but tbh, it seems quite unweildly. Though I know it's possibly the right route.

Any thoughts?

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[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Moonlight is a great app for this. I get very decent FPS and you should too as long as your WiFi supports it. Since you’re already streaming games I think that bandwidth is not particularly something to worry about.

My current setup is a 3080 with a 5950x and 32gb of ram and 2tb of SSD storage. Streaming games is honestly very good quality but I keep it at 1080p to reduce the lag and keep the fps up. Keep in mind that it still has some faults and drops every now and then and requires some tinkering to have the games set up juuuuuust right.

all in all, depends on the services you use, but you may go from a native handheld experience to ******needing to use the keyboard and mice on your couch quite often as you settle in. Invest in a wireless mouse and keyboard too lol.