Interesting workaround you managed to find here lol. In my experience, Steam Link works waay better than oculus link. I compared all 3 methods a few months ago. (Steam Link, Oculus link wireless, and via USB3.2) Steam link has better picture quality, less delay, and way more convenient, even when farther even with the router behind a wall. Oculus link always gave me weird visual artifacts like it was upscaled even with a wired connection. And it's such a hassle connect to every time. The only thing bugging me about steam link are the small stutters, and the positio "jumps" when i move my head around. Not really noticable in moat games, but in something like beatsaber where every little delay counts it's a dealbreaker. I'll definitely try the ethernet adapter some time.
Thanks for making this tutorial! After many failed attempts I got it to connect over USB, but it was VERY stuttery and quality was definitely lower than 350 Mbps (it was set to 350 in settings). Any idea what could be causing this?
Low quality is caused by the encode resolution, being maxed out at 1300ish where as VD runs at 2200+ depending on quality settings Stuttering is caused by steam link not having video buffering, while VD has video buffering, however you will notice 10ms higher latency with this option enabled, so you have to make compromises I personally use steam link at 960 encode res, 90mbps bitrate only to play beat saber, and use VD for everything else
@@rdablock Really depends on what you want, however i do believe both VD and Steam are much better than Quest link, specially if you're on a 1000 series, as going through oculus and then steamvr halves your performance And if you plan to stream or record, oculus is also a no-go as it uses nearly triple of the encoding resources compared to the other methods for no real reason With this said Quest link (by cable) definitely has the best visuals with a good latency Steam link has by far the best latency if you decide to keep the visuals at a minimum VD is the best one for most people or most use cases, has the quality of oculus with a modern UI, a complete set of features that not even steam link can match, you get great performance by skipping oculus and it's overall pretty good
@@MooshPaw I have a 3050Ti but my laptop does have problems with Alyx and heavier titles (also HL2VR for some reason) so I'll probably going to try it, ty
@@rdablock So far, here's my review: SteamLink is super low latency and reduces the overhead of the Oculus runtime, which is huge for smoothness/performance. Quest Link is easier to use and, ironically, higher quality than SteamLink (at least if you use the Oculus Debug Tool in the program files to crank your bitrate up).
Ohhh Cyuut bnuy If you pop up in ChilloutVR, say hi sometime! Some of the Steam Link issues you mention can be mitigated by closing out of Desktop Steam completely / ending all Steam proccesses. Running a batch to reset your Ethernet adapters (I'll leave lines below, copy to notepad, save as .bat file) fixes NAT issues in some other games too), and launching Steam again. Or reboot your PC @echo on timeout /t 2 netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" DISABLED ipconfig /flushdns timeout /t 2 netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" ENABLED
You can buy pretty much any cable that's USB 3.0 or higher. In my case, I bought the "KUJECT" cable, which allows me to plug in a power brick and it artifically raises the voltage to keep the headset charged. Just note that you can get either PD or QC charging, and you want to make sure your brick is also capable of that.
@@DarkSwordsman everyone should own a USB PD charger IMO. you can charge your phone faster, I can charge my electric coffee mug over PD via PD emulator, my macbook takes USB PD, You can use a USB PD to cigarette lighter adapter to power small things that require 120v, endless possibilities. USB PD emulators are GOATed.
Great tutorial thanks, worked like a charm here!
Interesting workaround you managed to find here lol.
In my experience, Steam Link works waay better than oculus link. I compared all 3 methods a few months ago. (Steam Link, Oculus link wireless, and via USB3.2)
Steam link has better picture quality, less delay, and way more convenient, even when farther even with the router behind a wall.
Oculus link always gave me weird visual artifacts like it was upscaled even with a wired connection. And it's such a hassle connect to every time.
The only thing bugging me about steam link are the small stutters, and the positio "jumps" when i move my head around. Not really noticable in moat games, but in something like beatsaber where every little delay counts it's a dealbreaker.
I'll definitely try the ethernet adapter some time.
Thanks for making this tutorial! After many failed attempts I got it to connect over USB, but it was VERY stuttery and quality was definitely lower than 350 Mbps (it was set to 350 in settings). Any idea what could be causing this?
Low quality is caused by the encode resolution, being maxed out at 1300ish where as VD runs at 2200+ depending on quality settings
Stuttering is caused by steam link not having video buffering, while VD has video buffering, however you will notice 10ms higher latency with this option enabled, so you have to make compromises
I personally use steam link at 960 encode res, 90mbps bitrate only to play beat saber, and use VD for everything else
Is it better than Quest Link?
@@rdablock Really depends on what you want, however i do believe both VD and Steam are much better than Quest link, specially if you're on a 1000 series, as going through oculus and then steamvr halves your performance
And if you plan to stream or record, oculus is also a no-go as it uses nearly triple of the encoding resources compared to the other methods for no real reason
With this said Quest link (by cable) definitely has the best visuals with a good latency
Steam link has by far the best latency if you decide to keep the visuals at a minimum
VD is the best one for most people or most use cases, has the quality of oculus with a modern UI, a complete set of features that not even steam link can match, you get great performance by skipping oculus and it's overall pretty good
@@MooshPaw I have a 3050Ti but my laptop does have problems with Alyx and heavier titles (also HL2VR for some reason) so I'll probably going to try it, ty
@@rdablock So far, here's my review: SteamLink is super low latency and reduces the overhead of the Oculus runtime, which is huge for smoothness/performance. Quest Link is easier to use and, ironically, higher quality than SteamLink (at least if you use the Oculus Debug Tool in the program files to crank your bitrate up).
do i need a bluetooth in my pc cuz mqdh didnt recgonize my vr for some reason i tried other usbs nothing worked
Nice thumbnail, I always wanted to know more about SS
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Cyuut bnuy
If you pop up in ChilloutVR, say hi sometime!
Some of the Steam Link issues you mention can be mitigated by closing out of Desktop Steam completely / ending all Steam proccesses. Running a batch to reset your Ethernet adapters (I'll leave lines below, copy to notepad, save as .bat file) fixes NAT issues in some other games too), and launching Steam again.
Or reboot your PC
@echo on
timeout /t 2
netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" DISABLED
ipconfig /flushdns
timeout /t 2
netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" ENABLED
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Cable to buy?
You can buy pretty much any cable that's USB 3.0 or higher. In my case, I bought the "KUJECT" cable, which allows me to plug in a power brick and it artifically raises the voltage to keep the headset charged. Just note that you can get either PD or QC charging, and you want to make sure your brick is also capable of that.
@@DarkSwordsman everyone should own a USB PD charger IMO. you can charge your phone faster, I can charge my electric coffee mug over PD via PD emulator, my macbook takes USB PD, You can use a USB PD to cigarette lighter adapter to power small things that require 120v, endless possibilities.
USB PD emulators are GOATed.
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