Valve beta pyrowave video codec steam remote play – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Valve is beta testing a new high bandwidth, low latency video codec that uses your GPU.

It may not benefit every setup, the company warns, but Pyrowave is a new Steam Remote Play high bandwidth, low latency video codec now available in Steam beta on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It uses “5-10 times the amount of bandwidth of other streaming codecs,” but leverages your PC’s GPU to “encode and decode frames to achieve extremely low end to end latency with a good network.”

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