Comment on Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck

TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  My understanding is that sunshine/moonlight has better quality still.

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  • FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve used both to play Helldivers 2 recently and have found Sunshine/moonlight to be superior.

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    • Ecksell@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Just curious, when you do this in HD2, how do you use the mic?

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      • FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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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  • cttttt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• fishbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Moonlight client originally used Nvidia’s streaming server. Sunshine is an open source streaming server that moonlight can connect to.

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    • fishbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It works well! I’m actually using the moonlight client for Xbox so I can play on the couch and it’s great.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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