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.
jwiggler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days 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.