Sunshine and Moonlight

What is Sunshine and Moonlight?

• Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig.
• Moonlight (formerly Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol. We implemented the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and wrote a set of 3rd party clients.
• You can stream your collection of PC games from your gaming PC to any supported device and play them remotely. Moonlight is perfect for gaming on the go without sacrificing the graphics and game selection available on PC.

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Resources

• Homepage: https://moonlight-stream.org/
• Download: https://moonlight-stream.org/

Guides

First Steps Setting Up A Game To Stream Successfully

These steps assume your Sunshine-Moonlight streaming is already setup and operating fine.

1. Start the game on the host with any controllers and peripherals it will eventually need when streaming
   • At this step, you are just testing the game starts with your peripherals locally fine before trying over streaming, to make sure everything on the host end is fine.
2. Configure the game's display, graphics, audio, control, and other settings locally
3. Play a bit of the game to ensure your controllers and other settings are operating okay
4. You should now be ready to stream

Note: These steps are a work in progress and I may add more steps over time.

Notes:

• Locally I use a Microsoft Xbox Core controller but, when streaming, at the TV I use an NVIDIA Shield with a PS5 Controller.
  • So, I test with the Xbox controller locally and usually that's enough to ensure the PS5 controller will work through the Shield (at least when running through Steam and using the Steam Input controller compatibility option)
  • Steam Input controller compatibility works so well I actually import GOG games to Steam and launch them from Steam just to get access to Steam Input compatibility

Gotchas:

• Interfering Software
  • Special K, RTSS, or other similar software may interfere with a game starting up. You'll have to fix those so the game starts okay locally before you can stream.

More Details:

• There's a lot more details over here: NVIDIA_Shield#Moonlight_PC_to_Shield_Streaming
  • I started documenting Sunshine and Moonlight over there before I created this page
  • Eventually, I'll probably move it all here