Can I ask for those of you who have been using Sunshine (and specifically Moonlight) without issue - is there some part of your setup that you upgraded or had to troubleshoot specifically to get it to work well?
I have tried it on 802.11ax and with my Steam Deck, same household & router & network, and playing anything that requires a modicum of reaction timing was frustrating and inconsistent. I mean, 10ms or so of lag is playable, and 20ms could be in a pinch, but I was feeling rubberbanding into 50+, lag spikes, etc.
Everything on gigabit ethernet and everything is perfect. Wireless clients are ok but the occasional stutter. I wouldn’t even try the host being wireless. It’s more reliable that steam for me.
I only do 1080p60 streams because I’m playing on a TV if I’m not at my computer.
Ethernet is the way to go. At least try it if you can to see if that improves things or if it’s another component of your network.
Mine is 1ms at all times, it’s such an amazing app. My network is also very much not typical, but Ethernet should help a ton for you.
I’ve been using Sunshine/Moonlight for a couple of years now. Over wifi to my client device (NVIDIA Shield) it worked ok but would have a 0.5-1.0 second lag spike every few minutes. I tried all kinds of suggestions I could find but nothing properly fixed the issue. Besides that though the latency was fine enough.
Switching to ethernet resolved all issues and further improved the latency and it’s been perfect streaming at 4K 60Hz. I’ve only ever done local streaming though.
Thank you. Seeing a theme here with ethernet. I do wish there was a reliable wifi solution, but I guess that’s more than technology can deliver right now.
My biggest issues on wifi were random hitches and stuff. I’m on ethernet over coaxial now and it’s basically flawless.
For me, it took a lot of troubleshooting to get it working reliably. But one key step was having the host with a wired connection, better still, the clients, too. But at least the host. Even with a fast, well covered WiFi network, it was too unpredictable to use regularly. And don’t even get me started on macs, using a specific WiFi channel to broadcast handoff, relentlessly…
I had my SD on Ethernet and my PC on Ethernet and its still completely unplayable on even slow games like rimworld or cities skyline 2.
The bitrate gets destroyed everytime you rotate the camera. The input lag I can get used to but the quality is so bad its like using fsr1 on performance mode.
