• @TheDarkKnight
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    281 year ago

    Does Sunshine/Moonlight still blow Steam Remote Play out of the water or does this bring them up to par?

    • FubarberryOPM
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      1 year ago

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

      The built-in steam game streaming has better steam UI integration though, and is available without installing any additional software.

      • Funderpants
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        71 year ago

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

        • Ecksell
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          41 year ago

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

          • Funderpants
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            So far, I don’t. It doesn’t have a hot key configured by default and I just haven’t changed it. I tried to assign the rear paddles, but it didn’t pick it up because I think the game was emulating an Xbox controller.

            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.

            • Ecksell
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              21 year ago

              Basically the same situation here fellow Helldiver, thank you for the confirmation. Now lets get back to the front lines!!

      • @TheDarkKnight
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        21 year 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.

    • paraphrand
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      61 year 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?

      • @cttttt
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        141 year 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Since 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

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year 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
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      21 year 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

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

        • Fishbone
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          41 year 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

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