Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

Post by monk_grilla » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

dpoloncsak wrote: post #124

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The steam link actual. While the hardware is no longer being sold the software sort of lives on. In an android app among other things. Tangentially it almost feels like steam could make a stadia like thing work. They have most of the moving parts including crucially, the bit google didn't, an established base of customers. Tomorrow steam could introduce a "play your games anywhere on any hardware" feature and no one…

Steam Link has saved my ass more times than I can count. VPN having issues, can't connect to any of my stack? Atleast I have a desktop on my LAN I can remote into...from my phone... Basically anytime I have network issues while I'm away, reliable Steam Link connects me back to my infra ~97% of the time.

Post by BatteryMountain » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC

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Now try it on your phone. Playing Diablo 2 Remastered in bed on an android phone with controller attachment on 6.7" OLED 2340x1080 @ 120hz HDR is super amazing. Better than Steam Deck....phone stays cool and battery lasts forever, it's the same as watching a movie on it.

I'm sure that works fine, but playing on an 8 inch 16:10 screen (like the Legion Go S or the MSI) has to be a better experience than a significantly smaller 6.7 inch screen. Despite the obviously higher quality HDR on your phone. Every time I've tried PC gaming on undersized screens, every single inch makes a big difference to the immersiveness and reduced eye-fatigue. It just ends up being something I have to put do…

Post by elxr » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

BatteryMountain wrote: post #153

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I'm sure that works fine, but playing on an 8 inch 16:10 screen (like the Legion Go S or the MSI) has to be a better experience than a significantly smaller 6.7 inch screen. Despite the obviously higher quality HDR on your phone. Every time I've tried PC gaming on undersized screens, every single inch makes a big difference to the immersiveness and reduced eye-fatigue. It just ends up being something I have to put do…

So for Diablo and Grim Dawn, just zoom the game camera in. The game then plays like an over-the-shoulder experience and is surprisingly very immersive this way and everything is big enough to play an hour or two without much eye strain. The 6.7" screen is very wide and feels natural. When I played the first time it was just an experiment and I expected the worst but I soon discovered playing like this is much better…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

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No, I mean to have multiple concurrent sessions, e.g. to have friends over on laptops playing games from a centralized device

That's exactly what Game on Whales offers It's multi seat.

Post by apitman » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

remix2000 wrote: post #136

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It’s possible to make a fake display to avoid that; both Linux and Windows have this ability. No dummy plug is required (though it is simpler than software solutions).

I don't use the dummy plug for display, it's only that consumer nvidia gpus won't have working 3D acceleration if there is nothing physically connected to the card. My dummy plug doesn't support the resolutions I run games at anyway. EDIT: Ok, correction, I bothered to go unplug the dummy plug and it still works. So I was wrong, Sunshine does not need a dummy plug at all, not even on Nvidia. Now it remains a mystery…