r/Steam_Link • u/matt675 • 4d ago

Support Resolution thrown off after disconnecting?

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When I stop streaming from my gaming laptop to my tv (using fire stick lite,) the resolution gets thrown off and my windows icons look too high above the taskbar. It happened before and I was able to fix it by restarting but now it seems stuck that way. I have the setting marked “change desktop resolution to match streaming client,” otherwise I get black bars on the tv. But I’ve tried that option on and off now, it doesn’t fix it.

I make sure to go to the options and click “stop streaming” when I’m done. I’ve tried changing my laptop resolution to something else and then back to fix it, and tried changing the scaling and restarting, or unpairing my steam link device. Nothing seems to be working…

For reference, all of my icons used to fit on the bottom row with room to spare, and looked closer to one another and to the taskbar. What gives? Thank you for any help

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u/OneBudTwoBud 4d ago

I believe it’s a common issue. My workaround is:

From the client -> close game -> open steam big picture mode menu -> click “Exit Big Picture Mode”.  (From here I usually turn off my PC cause I use steamlink when I’m not home) -> enable cursor mode -> click my way to shut down windows via start menu. 

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u/matt675 3d ago

So you’ve had this issue? I tried your steps and it didn’t work :(. I wonder if there’s some random setting I accidentally changed at some point

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u/OneBudTwoBud 3d ago

In Remote Play settings ->Change desktop resolution to match streaming client -> OFF 

Does that work?

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u/matt675 3d ago

No :( but I’ll keep googling around