Does Sunshine/Moonlight still blow Steam Remote Play out of the water or does this bring them up to par?
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.
Moonlight client originally used Nvidia’s streaming server. Sunshine is an open source streaming server that moonlight can connect to.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I’ve used both to play Helldivers 2 recently and have found Sunshine/moonlight to be superior.
