Is moonlight/sunshine more performant than steam remote play on the steam deck?
jwiggler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
you ever use moonlight/sunshine?
im wondering if ill be able to do flat gaming streaming using moonlight installed to the steamframe
this is how i use my steamdeck currently and its absolutely killer. gaming pc performance on the tiny handheld.
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jwiggler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think ive tried remote play and never got it working. at least with moonlight and sunshine, i can control everything thats going on. I have had to tinker quite a bit.
I basically now have a script that saves the state of my real monitors, turns them off, and creates a virtual monitor on my Ubuntu 26.04 pc, according to whatever resolution the moonlight client requests. then, after i close moonlight, it runs a tear down script that destroys the virtual monitor and brings the real monitors back exactly how they were. That way i can connect from my steamdeck and it matches the resolution, or i can connect from another computer and it matches the resolution of that screen.
i have hitches with wifi sometimes, where i have to restart moonlight client (which doesnt necessarily kill the sunshine session) but for the most part it runs smooth enough for action games like Onimusha, Spider-Man, etc. I’ve also played Rocket league on it, the most latency-affected game I play, and it is better streamed than playing straight off the steamdeck.
master_of_unlocking@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I haven’t but I may try it out if I can’t get the official streaming working. I’ve seen reports of 2D streaming working on Linux so it’s likely something with my own environment. I don’t know much about Moonlight but I guess my concern would be it working with the wi-fi dongle.
From what they have here it sounds like Linux streaming is still a work in progress: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2668-0B6E-79E0-A85B#os