While the experience is not seamless and one to one, it was extremely good – definitely good enough if you have the odd PC game you’d rather play on your TV without lugging a massive tower around. From a dedicated gaming PC hooked up over Ethernet, it was a different story. A WiFi-connected laptop stuttered a little, and had some frame tearing however, similar performance is experienced on an actual Steam Link. So much so that our gameplay experience was only hampered by the computer to which we connected. We highly recommend a wired connection for this – and thanks to the Gigabit Ethernet on Raspberry Pi 4, it’s going to make a huge difference. Installing Steam Link is easy – it’s available from the Raspbian software repository so can be installed from the Terminal with a simple sudo apt install steamlink. Over the last month or so, more stable versions have been released, so we thought it was time to give it a test. With the release of Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian Buster, it’s taken some time to get a new version of the Steam Link app which works as well as it should. There used to be dedicated hardware for this, but it has been available for Raspberry Pi (and other hardware) for a while now. In the address bar type in the following address and press Enter.Essentially, it’s a local network streaming service that allows you to stream games from a gaming PC to another computer hooked up to a screen. On your Windows machine, open the file manager.Ģ. ROM transfer times will vary greatly depending on your connection (Ethernet being the preference) and the amount of ROMs and their size.ġ. Adding Games via SMB (Samba)Īdding games via a network share is a convenient and laughably simple task thanks to RetroPie automatically configuring an SMB (Samba) share. The games list will now update and show the available computers / consoles for which there are now games. The main areas to consider are disk speed, CPU and GPU speed, and the memory size and speed. When complete, remove the USB flash drive and press START and from the menu select Restart Emulationstation / Restart System. The most pertinent question to address when it comes to ascertaining whether a Raspberry Pi 4 is good enough for gaming is whether it will be able to perform fast enough in various areas. This could take minutes for a few games, or hours if transferring a large amount.Ħ. The time that this will take depends on how many games are transferred over.
Eject the flash drive from your computer and place it back into a USB port of the Raspberry Pi 4. For example, put atari 2600 games in the /atari2600 folder.ĥ.
Copy your games to the correct system / console folder in retropie/roms/.
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