I'm looking to ask some questions about streaming steam from my PC to my laptop and tablet.
I can't find an answer anywhere I've searched.
Reddit has a sub for moonlight gaming.
But all my reddit accounts are perma banned. Even ones I hardly ever used so they seem to know my Microsoft account and have my whole deal banned. I guess I could go to a library but ...
Is there some place on lemmy I could ask ?
Basics of my situation.
PC has 12gb GPU 6700xt. AMD processor and GPU. Ryzen 7 , 7700 64gb ddr6 ram.
I'm trying to stream my PC steam to my laptop or tablet so I can play games through those. Specifically text heavy games. So the screen is closer to my face.
My main monitor hooked to my PC is my tv. 4k LG TV with HDR.
If I use steamlink on my Samsung tab 6 lite (10.4 inch 2000x1200 resolution) tablet I experience constant notifications of poor connection even though both the tablet and PC are in the same room as the router. Both on 5g network. The screen also turns off after 2 minutes even though I've changed it to 30 minutes. Turned off battery saver. Tried everything.
Almost like clockwork there is a hiccup lag in the image. Regardless of what I'm doing. This happened even outside of games just in the steam big picture. So thinking maybe tablet is just not going to work.
However, I tried downloading sunrise and moonlight to try that.
No more regular lags. Screen still times out 2 min but I get a new problem. Stream is only 720p resolution. Regardless of what settings I change in moonlight, it persistently stays at 720p. Even the mirror for the desktop is 720 (outside of steam app).
For the laptop. An Asus. 2 years old.14 inch screen. Supports hdr too. 1920x1080
I tried steam link with it. Resolution is good but does have lag occasionally. Too often to use.
I tried moonlight game streaming . Again, it will only transmit at lower resolution. Looks like 720p. Changing settings in moonlight do not appear to do anything. Even after restarting PC completely.
Resolution stays low. But there is not really any lags.
I tried changing my primary screen to the same resolutions as the tablet and Asus laptop. This didn't fix the low resolution in moonlight.
I've searched all over and can't find anyone else reporting this problem. The low resolution is present even outside of steam. The windows desktop icons and text are hard to read because of the low resolution (on the client device).
It's like the settings in moonlight aren't working or are being over written.
But steamlink creates proper client resolution. So why isn't moonlight ?
Also the color and brightness is bad too on the client (moonlight). But this might be caused by low resolution. It's good on steamlink though.
Turning off HDR on the host PC display settings helps with bad color and brightness but the client supports hdr so it shouldn't be a problem.
Have you configured sunlight to accept the moonlight resolution and set it on the host pc? It doesn’t do it by default you have to configure the commands. Apollo is a fork of sunlight that has built in virtual display support and will do it for you, if your host is running windows I would recommend.
I've tried changing a few sunlight settings from guides with no luck. Do you happen to recall where that setting is in sunlight ?
I went through all the settings. I don't believe there was any setting for resolution. Only in moonlight.
I did find one old reddit post that sounded semi related to my issue and someone just told the user to switch to apollo and then the user responded "thanks that fixed it".
Yeah maybe I should just give Apollo a try.
Tried Apollo. Can't get it to connect. Says PC is offline. Though it lets me add it.
I checked Apollo settings. Not sure why it's not connecting. I don't see anything that would cause that. It kept duplicating the icon for my desktop but all say offline.
I switched back to sunshine and had to re-add the link.
Same thing I did on Apollo but it works on sunrise.
Also I forgot to mention that not only does the moonlight resolution setting not apply. Neither does the setting for window or borderless. I'm going to guess the fps and bitrate setting are also not applying.
So something is blocking multiple moonlight settings.
I know Nvidia can cause some issues but I'm using an AMD GPU. Up to date. Also all my bios are up to date.
Try the "Alternative Solution" here, https://niquette.ca/articles/sunshine-resolution/
This is what I used before switching to apollo, apparently they've added the built in solution after I left.
One thing to check as well, your monitor needs to support the resolution you're trying to set, otherwise it will fail. Test the QRES commands locally with the resolution you're trying to set before moving on to testing with moonlight.
As to why you had issues with Apollo, my first guess would be to ensure you've removed the sunshine config from moonlight and paired successfully with Apollo. Then make sure you set client permissions in apollo
Apollo is the easy answer. You need to set the custom start and stop commands on game launch. For windows it should be fairly easy, they’re posted somewhere on the wiki. I’ll see if I can find them later