Black Screen with Parsec and Steam Link

I saw a couple other posts about this but they’re from almost 6 months ago. I purchased Overwatch GOTY for my son and watched him play and decided I wanted to give it a shot so I purchased myself a license for the standard $40 version.

The gaming PC (with a GTX 1070) is downstairs on the main TV. Because I don’t want him hogging the main TV I put a Steam Link upstairs on his TV so he can game up there. Moving my beloved gaming PC up there is not an option :slight_smile:

We immediately had streaming issues with Overwatch. Other games (Fortnite, PUBG, etc) worked flawlessly. When playing via Steam Link when I went into quick play (tutorials, etc were fine) and the game started the screen went black. I could still hear audio and move the mouse cursor around. I could even move the mouse to the character selection area at the bottom of the screen and click the mouse button and hear the selection sound. When I went downstairs to the main TV the PC is physically attached to I could see the game just fine.

I saw that some people had success using Parsec so I bought a Rpi and installed Parsec on that and set it up to stream from the gaming PC. It works great - even better than the Steam Link - on all games except for Overwatch. Same issue with Parsec.

I tried changing it to borderless windowed mode and tried out different resolutions. I did get it to work briefly with a lowered resolution (1600x900 60) but now it has decided to not work again.

I read that it may have something to do with anti-cheat. Obviously there is no intention to do any form of cheating here. I’d just like my entire family to be able to enjoy a nice gaming rig without having to lug it all around the house.

Any ideas? Has anyone else had any success with Steam Link or Parsec on a locally hosted gaming PC?

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The problem is with the anti-cheat system, OW works well using parsec, but as soon as the anti-cheat detects it, it blocks the image, I was able to play without problems for several hours until it happened.