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Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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