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

Post by BatteryMountain » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:16 AM UTC

aliasxneo wrote: post #22

I use moonlight/apollo. 1. Connect my Dualsense controller to my macbook 2. Open moonlight on my macbook 3. Connect to my gaming desktop in full screen mode 3. Launch my AAA game on Steam 4. Profit Over Wifi 7 I get basically no discernable lag, which was crazy to me the first time I tried it. I also have a Minisforum attached to my large screen TV and the process is identical except I push a different combo on the D…

Post by BatteryMountain » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:18 AM UTC

esperent wrote: post #18

I spent quite a while trying to set up streaming from my laptop to my phone using Sunshine/Moonlight. I never got decent results despite following tutorials that were supposed to make it all very easy. Gaming is something I do to relax and I eventually decided it wasn't worth it since I had spent a week of my limited downtime messing around with codecs, latency, wifi settings, trying different apps, etc. and not gott…

Post by BLKNSLVR » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:21 AM UTC

jader201 wrote: post #21

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #17

The Sunshine/Moonlight combo allowed me to stream emulated, upscaled SSX Tricky (PS2 game) from my desktop to an (at least 7 year-old) Android streaming box as smooth as silk. The only downside was that the game had to be running, visibly, on the screen of the desktop machine, meaning the desktop is unusable for anything else - ie. if someone else wanted to play the game while I was working on the desktop. This appea…

Side note: I miss SSX. Such a great franchise, and sad that EA Big shut down (and that no one else picked it up). Tricky was probably my favorite, but they were all great.

Post by BLKNSLVR » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:23 AM UTC

ducktective wrote: post #37

PalmPilotProMax wrote: post #25

So, to sum up: First there was Nvidia Gamestream, which was proprietary and later deprecated by Nvidia themselves. Then came Sunshine and Moonlight, open source server and client implementations of the protocol to allow low latency streaming for all platforms. Along the way the Game on Whales project started, to allow multi seat streaming plus virtual displays so currently logged in user sessions aren't impacted. Bas…

Thanks for the summary! Does anyone happen to know how to make a Windows machine, the extended display of a Linux machine? Both machines are on the same network. I'm looking to use a Windows laptop as a mere HDMI monitor for the Linux laptop. I don't need gaming/streaming requirements. Like, can anyone list our options in 2026 as the parent comment did? I assume one can use this Moonshine on the server (Linux laptop)…

Post by yggfsss » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

somat wrote: post #28

PalmPilotProMax wrote: post #25

So, to sum up: First there was Nvidia Gamestream, which was proprietary and later deprecated by Nvidia themselves. Then came Sunshine and Moonlight, open source server and client implementations of the protocol to allow low latency streaming for all platforms. Along the way the Game on Whales project started, to allow multi seat streaming plus virtual displays so currently logged in user sessions aren't impacted. Bas…

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…