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If your router was totally open, anyone could connect to your local network remotely. Your router will block the connection - and that’s a good thing. Most modern routers have security features built-in, meaning you can’t just connect to them from any ol’ network. The connecting remotely part is where things get tricky. It’s up to you - just make sure that Steam is set to run as a startup app so you can boot right into it when you wake your machine. You can disable sign-in in the control panel, or you can struggle trying to enter your password with touch controls.

The only other hurdle to overcome is signing into Windows. Steam Link is capable of sending a magic packet, meaning as long as you have WoL enabled in Windows, you can boot your machine and start playing games right from your phone.

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Where the setting is located will depend on your motherboard manufacturer, so consult the manual if you can to find where it’s buried. During the boot sequence, continually press the Delete key to open the BIOS screen.

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If you don’t know how to get to your BIOS, restart your computer. You may have to enable WoL in your BIOS, too. Enable this feature, and you should be good to go.

In our case, it was Wake on Magic Packet. Scroll down the list of options until you find Wake on LAN or something similar. Open the Device Manager in Windows and find your network adapter. Although the power is still off, you can trigger your computer to wake by sending what’s known as a “magic packet.” Your computer will detect the packet and cause the “power on” cycle to start.Įnabling WoL is dead simple, too. WoL allows your computer to detect when a certain packet is sent to the LAN port, essentially leaving your computer on standby. Thankfully, you can accomplish that remotely. If you want to, say, plop down on the couch and boot up a game, you’d normally need to go and turn on your computer first. That’s where wake on LAN ( WoL) comes in.

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Simply downloading the Steam Link app doesn’t offer the full Switch experience. Wi-Fi is susceptible to interference from a slew of different sources, leading to wildly different results each time you connect to your host machine. More important, though, hardwired connections are consistent. Hardwired connections are faster, and that’ll help with streaming quality. You can’t get away with Wi-Fi even if your connection is great. Although you can connect and launch a game with a host on Wi-Fi, your experience will likely be filled with stutters, lag, and streaming artifacts. You’ll obviously need a fast internet connection (25Mbps usually does the trick, though faster is better), but Wi-Fi won’t cut it. There are a couple of important notes for the best experience, though. As long as your PC is hardwired and you have a decent connection, you should be able to stream games locally without many problems. Download the Steam Link app to your phone, connect a Bluetooth controller or use the touch controls, and connect your PC. The best upcoming Nintendo Switch games: 2023 and beyond The best upcoming PC games: 2023, 2024, and beyond

You can now easily control the mouse cursor with the numeric keypad.

Under the Mouse keys section, click the toggle corresponding to the “ Use numeric keypad to move mouse around the screen” option to On.

Press the Windows + I keyboard shortcut to open the Settings app.

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If you would prefer to not use a third-party driver to to keep a mouse cursor visible at all times, you can follow the steps outlined in this article. We have tested and verified that this driver will allow Parsec to emulate a mouse as if there were one plugged into your computer. Parsec faithfully reproduces the hidden mouse cursor based on this. Windows explicitly removes the mouse when one is not present. If you're a Parsec Warp or Parsec for Teams customer, you can also use our Virtual Display Driver. You can buy this HDMI dongle to mimic a display. Microsoft and your GPU don't like it when you try to capture video on a headless servers.

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