Two years ago, I wrote about Moonlight once. Originally, I wanted to share more about things like this on my blog. Something lighter and fun. I guess in the end, I wrote too much nonsense instead. Anyway, I want to bring an update to game streaming today.
Moonlight is still and probably will be the best game streaming solution for many people. Last time, I mentioned that an NVIDIA GPU was required for it to work. Now, it will work on anything whether it is AMD or Intel. No longer bound by the GPU thanks to Sunshine.
I only knew about Sunshine maybe two months ago. It seems to be around for quite some time. It prepares the entire host environment for Moonlight. Before with Moonlight, the pairing process was quite tedious. Now, Sunshine handles the pin for you. That means you no longer to need pair manually. You can now pair it on the same device without going over to the host machine.
Sunshine makes AMD and Intel GPU work with Moonlight. So far, they seem to run rather smoothly. NVIDIA may even drop their streaming service which Moonlight is based on. That means this combination will still work without NVIDIA.
Now, the Steam UI is much more refined compared to before. It uses the same Steam Deck UI, and it makes the entire experience much smoother. However, there is one thing I must mention. The host machine must be connected to the Ethernet. Feel free to try WIFI, but it probably won’t work well.
The Ethernet connection is what makes the entire experience smooth. Note that it is only required by the host, not the streaming device. As long as the host is connected to the Ethernet, the streaming experience will be great with almost zero lag as long as your WiFi connection is stable enough. If you set up the IP correctly, I believe you can also play it remotely with 5G.
That’s all for now. Tomorrow, I will bring another post regarding my very fancy new gaming phone, Red Magic 9 Pro rocking a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and a built-in cooling fan.