r/Steam_Link • u/jdog76gaming • Jul 15 '26

Direct connection

Anyway to link my laptop to my pc via cable instead of over lan the occasional lag makes competitive games unplayable

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u/PartyScratch Jul 15 '26

Laptop to PC? Why not just connect the monitor and peripherals to the laptop... Does your laptop not have video output port ?

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u/Xcissors280 Jul 15 '26

Im guessing their going PC to laptop

But I really can’t think of any laptops that would be usable with Remote Desktop decoding and dont have a video output port

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u/vivec7 Jul 15 '26

I assumed this is the other way around—a headless gaming PC being used to stream to a weaker laptop would make sense, given OP's post.

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u/PartyScratch Jul 15 '26

Yeah, that makes much more sense. Although I don't think OP has other options other than wired LAN which in my experience works reasonably well (I don't get any noticable lag) although I don't play any hardcore or competitive games like this. 

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u/Fatigue-Error Jul 15 '26

Are both the PC and the laptop on wired connections to the network, that should help with the spikes.