has anyone still not found a way to fix this? im still experiencing the exact issue at this date and time (07/08/2026)
The weird thing is if you pull up the Steam Overlay you can see the screen is being captured just fine in the background. Also I thought pipewire was for audio - the audio is coming through fine, it's the video that isn't displaying! This wasn't always an issue - it was working not all that long ago...
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Non-steam (ie:EpicGames, GOG) installed/imported from "heroic games launcher" can't be streamed through steam link, black screen/pipewire error.
Steps for reproducing this issue:
The problem is that restarting steam with -pipewire argument makes the host desktop Steam clien crash as soon as the remote play session starts.
Without -pipewire the crash doesn't happen but can't stream non-steam games added manually (black screen/error message), Steam owned/installed games work fine and can be streamed even without the -pipewire argument.