r/MoonlightStreaming

Hello everyone, I have a 21:9 3440x1440p computer monitor, and I want to stream the display to my 4K TV, which has a resolution of 3840 × 2160.

Right now, when I try to stream it, it doesn’t work, and the resolution and aspect ratio are off. Do you know of a way to force the PC’s 16:9 display to stream at the correct 16:9 resolution to my TV? Or is there a setting in Moonlight that I’ve missed that makes it easy to switch from 21:9 to 16:9?

Honestly, I’m perfectly fine with 1440p stretched to 16:9!

Thanks everyone !

I ordered a refurbished Steam Deck LCD 512 GB for 449 CAD today. For it's price range, is it good for local streaming + some native gaming/emulation? Or would a ROG Ally Z1E be better for 500-550 CAD, though I would have to buy one off FB Marketplace. I also looked at the Odin 2 Portal but I'm kinda turned off by Android and would like x86 but not sure if that's valid.

I'm new to game streaming but I have this expectation that the new Steam Machine will provide the perfect streaming experience for the living room, not even because of Steam Remote Play for which I hear has worse latency than Moonlight, but because of controller integration (CEC too of course).

So now I am on the reservation list for Steam Machine and would like to decide in advance if I am buying or not. If the community says I could get the same streaming experience with a mini pc I'll skip the Steam Machine.

Sunshine does not seem to be reliable as if the display is powered off after some time I'm unable to connect. All the forks of sunshine appear to be windows only, but not sure if there is a newer repo that's available.

I am using Moonlight + Vibeshine for a while and i am in love with this combo and streaming method, but i got an issue with my living room TV

I was using moonlight in my tv to play some games in my couch for a month now, no problems until three days ago when the stream notified me with “Slow connection to PC. Reduce your bitrate”, and since then i cant play, the stream freezes but it is still connected with the notification active, before this i was able to play nicely without issues.

Tested to stream in my other devices to check if it is my internet connection or a configuration issue in Moonlight or Vibeshine but i can play with no problems in my iPhone and my laptop, so i assume the problem is the TV itself

Host: Ryzen 7 5700X, 16 gbs RAM and RX 7600 GPU, connected via ethernet with gigabit speed

TV is also connected via Ethernet, a TCL one from 2022, i know TVs are speed limited in its internet connection but i was able to play, and i want to play in my couch! :(

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated

I've read mixed information about how moonlight works with VRR in windows. I'm using windows 10 as my client, with hdmi 2.1 and VRR IS WORKING. However when I use moonlight the TV refresh rate just just matches my windows settings. I have VSYNC in moonlight turned off. There's 2 issues I'm trying to figure out.

First issue seems like it should he the easier one. I've read on this subreddit that VRR lets you set a frame rate to any one you want in moonlight, and a VRR capable setup will match that. So there isn't a fluctuating framerate that the TV matches, but you can easily set a lower refresh rate without going into windows settings. This is not currently working for me and I have no idea why. I'd really like to solve this one at the very least.

The second issue is that VRR doesn't match the fluctuating framerate AT ALL. I saw that setting the stream to 4:4:4 can get it to activate VRR, but it seemed to work once and I couldn't get it to work again. I had special K open and it asked to activate some vulkan bridge and I never got that again.

I'm trying to understand why VRR doesn't work at all. Special K says that VRR is possible but innactive. Can this be easily changed in the code to allow VRR?

Are there any solutions? Does moonlight nightly work better? I've avoided using nightly because I don't know the benefits and it's probably less stable. Anyways, feeling like I bought this 3050 for hdmi 2.1 for no reason, at least it has AV1...

Hey guys,

I have the following problem. When I stream via my Xbox series S with the newest moonlight update form the Microsoft store, the stream works flawlessy for a few minutes and then out of nowhere the image just freezes and after a few seconds I'm either back in the moonlight menu or in the Xbox home menu cuz the app crashed. Apart from this I dont have any lags or any stutters so I'm not really sure what is causing this. Using my phone or my android tablet I don't have any issues at all with streaming this only happens with the Xbox. Anyone has any ideas what could be the problem ? I'm streaming at 4k 60fps

Kidding but not really.

We're building a remote desktop (skyPC) aiming to be the next best thing for remote gaming. Latency and performance used to be the hard part, we've matched Sunshine/Moonlight there, even ahead. (If you want details on this, let's discuss in the comments)

But we didn't stop there. On top of that latency, we also have:

• A web browser client with no latency/quality drawbacks vs native clients.
• Full USB forwarding (the kind VirtualHere charges $49/license for)
• Webcam and microphone forwarding
• Headless support
• P2P with relay fallback
• Ease to use, 1 click setup for both host and client

>To pull this off, we built our own protocol from scratch along with 5 custom drivers (virtual display, USB-2, hardware & mic).

Talk is just talk without real playing, and we believe the real playing has to come from the community.

We plan to open beta this July, everyone's welcome. Just tell us straight: are we better than Sunshine & Moonlight?

Let's push remote gaming to the next level!

ps: to join, dm me your email. I'll noti and send out once beta launches.

Thank you and have a great week.

I challenge you, Sunshine & Moonlight!

Good afternoon !

I need your help guys because I’m a bit disappointed with how things are running :

- host : Pc plugged with fiber / 4090 GTX / Run 4k / Vibepollo

- client : Aurora on LG C5

I setup Vibepollo as someone did here I guess but I’m lacking a lot of options I guess…

Indeed, in Aurora, I set everything up to 4k, 90 FPS, I plugged the TV also and have between 230-250mbs

But the quality in game doesn’t look like 4k and isn’t as Crisp / sharp as on my OLED monitor,

I was wondering if you could help ? Maybe I forgot something,

It looks like 2k and sometimes HD id say, definitely not 4k

- P4 preset
- Windows graphics capture (constant)
- NVENC
- Virtual desktop / Double refresh rate

Other than that, I did not touch anything so maybe something is wrong

Thanks a lot for your help…

I have an nvidia shield. The system settings are set to 1080p 120 fps, and moonlight is configured to do the same. But when actually playing it's capped at 60. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing or is this a bug?

Server is using sunshine.

*edit

Here's a picture showing the stats from the TV and from moonlight. The TV is getting 120 hz signal but moonlight is capped at 60.
https://litter.catbox.moe/7satfdrwsrccay2l.jpg

Hey friends,

I use moonlight/apollo and absolutely love it. Serves my setup quite well. Recently started using my Xbox series x for moonlight and enjoy streaming at 4k 120.

The problem?

I kinda want to sell my series x.

Are there other boxes that allow for 4k 120 moonlight i can plug into my tv. Seems wild to keep an entire gaming console just to stream to pc, but i dont want to sacrifice my streaming capabilities.

I just discovered this wonderful sub. i setup sunshine and moonlight and everything went swimmingly. I do not intend to play multiplayer games via streaming, however would having the sunshine.exe service running in the background bring any issues with how some games detect cheaters? Would having the sunshine install files on my computer raise any potential false positive in multiplayer games?

To put my mind at ease i have a powershell script which toggles on and off sunshine.exe and sunshinevc.exe. However would this be enough? Within Window's service I selected the sunshine.exe to disable on start up and to only run manually, so i can use my scripts. Anything else i could do to protect potential cheating false positives?

Has anyone from this sub been suspended or banned from a multiplayer game by having the service running in the background but not actively using it? Do you actually stream multiplayer games to a device despite the risk?

I suppose I'm looking towards the community to help ease my concerns.

Long story short, I have been bothered by two things. 1), a fully watercooled gaming rig with a 4090 and 9950x3D is not portable at all and 2), neither it nor a 'gaming laptop' are silent. I tried Steamlink at first but I wasn't too impressed with it. 100mbps for a 4K120hz HDR stream was still lacking, and it had issues capturing my desktop. And steam is a memory hog. Moonlight fixed all of these things! 500mbps is very nice, esp. since both of the places I commute between have 1gbps and 10gbps symmetrical connections respectively, and WiFi7 at home makes using moonlight on my work laptop (A 2.8k OLED Lenovo Thinkpad) amazing. Latency is down, too.

I can now keep my main PC in the basement and still have an amazing gaming experience. Only issue was Win11's SDR to HDR conversion. I stream Win11 to my laptop which runs KDE Plasma on Arch, and I had to configure the Host (Win11) to use a target gamma of 2.6 and a target brightness of 1000 nits to get a non washed out experience. It only affects SDR content and I usually play in the dark, so 2.6 works great for me.

Awesome piece of software, love it!