Same issue here with Fedora 42 KDE with an NVidia GPU.
This might be the same issue that affect Steam Recording too, I can't record with it.
Same Issue here, KDE Fedora 41, AMD Radeon 6700 XT, latest stable build. Audio is streamed correctly.
Same issue even with Steam games. I’ve been having an issue with streaming to my Steam Link. Tried streaming to it from a Steam Deck 512GB LCD, a Linux system running EndeavourOS KDE, and a windows 10 machine with the same results every time. Audio plays interface sounds but the video is either black or freezes midway through the Big Picture splash.
I’ve attempted tweaking hardware encoding options to no effect.
Wanted to add more specific info here that I (EndeavourOS) get a black screen in X11 and Wayland. Input and audio works, just no visuals. Host is running Wayland and launched with -pipewire.
I'm experiencing the same issue on a 7800XT. As others mentioned, input and audio work fine, but the display stays black regardless of tweaks (windowed mode, compositor settings, different Proton versions, etc.).
I wanted to reiterate that for me (and I think this issue is specific to that case), this only affects non-steam games. There, audio and controls work as expected, no image. Steam-Games work just fine.
I am running Fedora 42 KDE and this is still a problem, and has been for years. I simply don't understand how this hasn't been resolved, as it was working just fine about a month ago, and now it is borked again. Can't stream video to clients (Steamdeck/Steam Link) from Fedora 42 KDE, AMD GPU and CPU, PC. I am really hoping that this issue goes away once all the distros change over and force Wayland and finally ditch X11.
Same issue, cachyos 580.95.05 driver
Nobara 42, same issue when client connects to host in Desktop mode I see only black screen.
Operating System: Nobara Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.3
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (27,2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon 680M
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: ROG Strix G513RW_G513RW
System Version: 1.0
$ uname -a
Linux nobara-pc 6.17.7-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Nov 2 20:05:05 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ vulkaninfo --summary | grep driverInfo
driverInfo = 580.105.08
driverInfo = Mesa 25.2.6
driverInfo = Mesa 25.2.6 (LLVM 20.1.8)
$ nvidia-smi
Sat Nov 22 15:32:55 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.105.08 Driver Version: 580.105.08 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ... On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 45C P5 26W / 130W | 996MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
This is still an issue on the latest steam beta release. What's weird is that the Steam Big Picture and some games (Teardown) stream fine but as soon as i open the Big Picture sidebar the screen goes black, same goes for some games (BeamNG.drive) and any desktop applications
Command: cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=43
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f43/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
SUPPORT_END=2026-12-02
VARIANT="KDE Plasma Desktop Edition"
VARIANT_ID=kde
I decided to test some games whether they work or not
Works:
Teardown
Half-Life (got a selinux violation)
s&box
Half-Life 2 (showed a block screen until i loaded a save)
Broken:
Garry's Mod
BeamNG.drive
Desktop
Steam (Normal Mode)
Also idk if this is related or not but the games that worked seemed to be locked at 60fps
Also idk if this is related or not but the games that worked seemed to be locked at 60fps
There is a setting for the streaming client to lock the FPS; you can change it.
Also suffering from this.
Can reproduce in all directions for some games.
ArchLinux -> Steam Link
ArchLinux -> Steam Deck
Steam Deck -> Arch Linux
Some games work, some don't.
Rise of the Tomb Raider would work with proton 9 though, which I thought was interesting, despite many failures
(Tweaking hardware encoding / various remote play settings)
Recently I've had Steam Remote Play working for the non-Steam apps once. But after reboot it's gone and I can't reproduce this behavior anymore.
I've got this again! Woah!
I guess you just have to wait for some random moment. Maybe I'll find more deterministic pattern.
Yeah, i've found a deterministic workaround!
Is this issue just going to stay unfixed for over a year now?
This is partially working for me now with -pipewire. I can stream one of my desktops, but not all three. On Windows moving the cursor between desktops would cause the streamed desktop to change, currently on my setup it will only stream the primary one even though I gave permission for the full workspace. The cursor is also partially clamped to the single desktop, it will move left onto the next one, but moving right snaps it back to the edge of the first desktop. Selecting one of my non-primary screens as the source shows that screen, but input is still sent to my primary screen.
My setup:
Kubuntu 26.04
RTX 4090 with 595-open
Steam beta 1786661881 (non-RT3)
On Fedora 44 Kinoite with Steam running with -pipewire Big Picture works but when i Alt+Tab to BeamNG.drive i got an error on the Steam Link client device to check the logs
Edit: With RT3 client disabled the streaming works, but is extremely laggy despite wired on host side and good wifi on client side
[2026-08-19 20:14:55][101.423989] CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Couldn't get image data
[2026-08-19 20:14:55][101.440632] CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Couldn't import dmabuf: Invalid argument
[2026-08-19 20:14:55][101.440688] CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Failed to mmap memory: Invalid argument
[2026-08-19 20:14:55][101.440700] CDesktopCapturePipeWire: Couldn't get image data
The same error is spammed like 1k more times
Hardware:
Lenovo laptop, AMD CPU, GTX 1650, Nvidia capture OFF, HW Accel ON
Nothing extracted yet.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Attempting to remote play any non-steam app from a LINUX server results in a black screen on the remote client. The application run on the server. It appears it is not being captured by steam. I have attempted various configurations and combinations, including:
The same GPU with Windows 11 as the OS results in the remote client being able to view and interact with the app successfully, so this seems to be isolated to Linux only.
Steps for reproducing this issue: