Steam streaming client blackscreens and hangs or crashes

[timbarrass]

First of all - thanks for all the efforts in getting this automated!

I can deploy and connect to an NV VM fine. I can download and install Steam, and the Battle.Net client and can start World of Warcraft, and even interact with it a bit over RDP.

However, when I try to stream the screen just goes black, and the streaming client either returns after a few seconds or hangs. I can hear game music playing in the first instance. Steam mention this specifically: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3629-RIAV-1617#blackscreen.

I've updated the latest NVidia drivers but: the download page warns that a restart would be required. I assume if I want to do that then I'll need a managed disk? Attempting it anyway (without restarting the VM) doesn't improve things.

The same Steam resource suggests a couple of other options, including testing and adjusting MTU settings. I'll be attempting those soon but thought I'd raise this as an issue here in case it'd been seen and there was an obvious solution.

EDIT: I misunderstood the managed OS disk point. MTU settings are at what Steam recommend.

[timbarrass]

I installed Parsec instead, following: https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002702331-Setting-Up-Hosting-On-Windows and it (probably*) works out of the box. I'll not pursue the Steam route any further for now, thought I'd recap here.

• I did enable remote COM activation and launch in my server settings on spotting some (possibly spurious) server event log errors.

[ecalder6]

Hmm I'll see if I can repro this problem. In the future I may add steaming software like Parsec as an alternative to steam in-home streaming in the script.

[AmineI]

Looks like a dupe of #37 , with the difference that steam now shows a splashscreen instead of a blackscreen.

If it is, it could be fixed the same way : Use C:/disconnect.lnk before attempting to use Steam streaming.