• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPM
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      8 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.

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        8 months ago

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

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        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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      8 months ago

      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.