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Steam Remote Play on Wayland is broken

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10315 · opened 2023-12-24 by lavadrop · updated 2026-07-16 · 4 comments · github
Llavadrop 2023-12-24 github

Latest Steam version is broken on a Wayland session using the -pipewire option. Black screen, unresponsive new UI and then highly distorted and very high pitch sounds go through. Host is an AMD RX 7800 XT, client is on an Intel Arc a380 also on Wayland.

JJaCh0o 2024-03-07 github

Any news here ? Impossible to steam link to Linux currently.

MMaledictYtb 2024-04-05 github

I have the same problem I think. The logs are full of this :
CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Couldn't import dmabuf: Function not implemented
CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Failed to mmap memory: Operation not permitted
CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Couldn't get image data

Edit : This has since been fixed. Remote Play works fine for me, except for the desktop which is still black.

NNIICKTCHUNS 2025-07-20 github

I hope someday Steam adds this function, since Sunshine/Moonlight can already stream desktop and games very well under wayland

DDrShadow34 2026-07-09 github

Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to inform you that steam just switched to pipewire on linux for wayland session.
Now everyone can experience broken streaming.

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