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Steam Link hardware flickering on Big Picture mode
Ketjow3 Aug 30, 2022
Hi,
I have a problem with steam link hardware flickering (picture on tv flickers when using gamepad) on big picture mode. Anything else like gaming or desktop streaming works fine. I use manjaro gnome with latest updates. My graphic card is Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 (latest drivers from repo). I know that flickering is caused by an option in nvidia-settings called "allow flipping" - it must be turned off.

This problem is quite old in steam link hardware history.
Is anyone of You have similar problem or still use steam link hardware?
I don't know what I can do else to fix it?
kit89 Sep 7, 2022
Does it flicker when you enable software encoding on the host side?
damarrin Sep 7, 2022
I've never been able to fix it (nvidia gpu here, too), so I don't use big picture mode anymore. I just share the desktop and launch games from the regular Steam interface (or from the system menu).
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