What specifically is better? These are just clients for the Streaming that Steam provides, right? They don’t actually swap out the “server” side, right?
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TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Does Sunshine/Moonlight still blow Steam Remote Play out of the water or does this bring them up to par?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 months ago
cttttt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re completely different implementations of systems that steam video/audio/inputs.
Valve’s is pretty buggy but has deep integration with Steam and allow NAT traversal, while Sunshine/Moonlight are way more reliable, have features that reduce latency but are pretty barebones as far as features: they just do streaming with no tight integration with what’s being streamed.
And Sunshine is a reverse engineered version of Nvidia’s game stream server, since Nvidia sunset Gamestream a few months ago.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Simce Sunshine & Moonlight are open source, I wonder if Valve has considered integrating them. Based on their track record, Valve would likely submit improvements upstream too
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Moonlight is Nvidia game stream so it’ll be using the Nvidia server or sunshine which implements the Nvidia game stream protocol for AMD/Intel/Nvidia server hardware.
fishbone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I only know it as moonlight (been a while since I used it). What’s the Sunshine component?
As an aside, Moonlight was incredible. Used it to play PSO2 on my phone when I was a few hundred miles away visiting a friend.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 months ago
Moonlight client originally used Nvidia’s streaming server. Sunshine is an open source streaming server that moonlight can connect to.
fishbone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh, fuck yeah. I remember it using nvidia shield, and I haven’t bothered with seeing if it works outside of geforce since I dropped that (fuck geforce lol). Glad to hear there’s an open source alternative.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 months ago
It works well! I’m actually using the moonlight client for Xbox so I can play on the couch and it’s great.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I’ve never been able to get Steam Link to work properly. Always the wrong resolution if I even get a picture at all.
Ideally it would work like a game streaming service where it just renders graphics based on your display but usually it just mirrors whatever is on the “host” system display and I got tired of trying to make it work properly.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
My understanding is that sunshine/moonlight has better quality still.
FunderPants@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ve used both to play Helldivers 2 recently and have found Sunshine/moonlight to be superior.
Ecksell@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Just curious, when you do this in HD2, how do you use the mic?
FunderPants@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
So far, I don’t. It doesn’t have a hot key configured by default and I just haven’t changed it.
But I only really do level 5/6 missions on the deck. I find it a bit too unfamiliar for 7+ missions where I need to communicate well and pull off my shots with better accuracy.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh no doubt, Steam Link is super easy to use. Once quality catches up it seriously might become the Stream Deck by default at home.