Your active controller will now be the on-screen Touch Controller. If you have a physical controller connected to your smartphone/tablet, either disconnect it or go into Settings -> Controller -> and select Touch Controller. Pressing any of these will launch the app directly into that game. The bottom row of icons are quick links to games that you have recently played. When you launch the Steam Link app, it will look like the following: For the hardware, refer to Steam Link Hardware Patch Notes as well as the pinned topic in the General Discussions sub forum. I recommend starting streams through Big Picture Mode.įor a list of games in the Steam store that have ready-to-use touch controls, refer to Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet hubs.įor looking up the current version and patch notes for the app, refer to Steam Link Android Patch Notes. The next time you stream a game to your tablet, the Touch Controls will appear on your tablet's screen. To use it, open the Steam client on your tablet (client computer) -> press Steam on the menu bar -> Settings -> Remote Play -> Advanced Client options -> check mark Enable Touch Controls. The Remote Play Touch Controller is also available to use on a Windows tablet running the Steam client when streaming from a host computer.The combination of the touch layout in the Steam Link app and bindings layout in the Controller Settings in the Steam client is what makes playing PC games on a touch screen device viable. Since the positions of the touch controls on the screen are collectively called a layout and the custom bindings you make in Controller Settings are also called a layout, to minimize confusion between the two, I will refer to the former as touch layout and the latter as bindings layout. ![]() This guide will cover the basics of creating a layout for your bindings. These bindings are also called layouts, and you are able to create layouts for each game you have through the Controller Settings. Likewise, customization is available for the Steam Link app's Touch Controller. In the Steam client, the Controller Settings, popularly known as Steam Input and formally called Steam Input Configurator (SIC), allows you to customize controls' bindings for any of your controllers, including the Steam Controller, Xbox Core (Series) Controller, PlayStation DualSense Controller, and Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. This guide will cover all aspects of creating a layout for the touch controls. When you launch a game, the various controls, such as buttons and D-pad, are placed on top of the screen, allowing you to play as though you are using a physical controller. ![]() If you do not have a gamepad connected to your smartphone or tablet, you can play games using the app's on-screen controller called the Remote Play Touch Controller. What is the Touch Controller in the Steam Link app and what are layouts? The focus of this guide will be on the Touch Controller in the Steam Link app on Android and iOS. As a side note, you are also able to stream between computers using the Steam client. There are no fees for streaming the only things you pay for are the games that you buy for your Steam account. Steam Link and Steam Remote Play allows you to stream computer games from your computer to your device, whether they are both on the same network or over the internet. They both serve the same purpose: games from your computer running Steam can be streamed to and played on a device running the Steam Link app or on the Steam Link hardware, whether both the computer and device are on the same network or on different networks (how well it works between different networks depends on the download and upload speeds along with ping/latency of both networks).įor example, you can locally stream a game from your computer in the living room to your phone running Steam Link in the bedroom by having both devices connected to your router's wireless network, and you can also remotely stream a game from your computer at home to your phone over the internet. Before we begin - What is Steam Link? In case you are not familiar with Steam Link, it can refer to two different things that Valve has created: the Steam Link hardware box sold between 20 (this set-top box is no longer being sold), and the Steam Link app launched in 2018 ( available for free on Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac, Linux, Samsung Smart TVs, and more).
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