Is there a community for gaming device streaming on Lemmy?

Hello!

I'm looking to ask some questions about streaming steam from my PC to my laptop and tablet.

I can't find an answer anywhere I've searched.

Reddit has a sub for moonlight gaming.

But all my reddit accounts are perma banned. Even ones I hardly ever used so they seem to know my Microsoft account and have my whole deal banned. I guess I could go to a library but ...


Is there some place on lemmy I could ask ?

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Basics of my situation.

PC has 12gb GPU 6700xt. AMD processor and GPU. Ryzen 7 , 7700
64gb ddr6 ram.


I'm trying to stream my PC steam to my laptop or tablet so I can play games through those. Specifically text heavy games. So the screen is closer to my face.

My main monitor hooked to my PC is my tv. 4k LG TV with HDR.


If I use steamlink on my Samsung tab 6 lite (10.4 inch 2000x1200 resolution) tablet I experience constant notifications of poor connection even though both the tablet and PC are in the same room as the router. Both on 5g network. The screen also turns off after 2 minutes even though I've changed it to 30 minutes. Turned off battery saver. Tried everything.

Almost like clockwork there is a hiccup lag in the image. Regardless of what I'm doing. This happened even outside of games just in the steam big picture.
So thinking maybe tablet is just not going to work.

However, I tried downloading sunrise and moonlight to try that.

No more regular lags. Screen still times out 2 min but I get a new problem.
Stream is only 720p resolution.
Regardless of what settings I change in moonlight, it persistently stays at 720p. Even the mirror for the desktop is 720 (outside of steam app).


For the laptop. An Asus. 2 years old.14 inch screen. Supports hdr too. 1920x1080

I tried steam link with it. Resolution is good but does have lag occasionally. Too often to use.

I tried moonlight game streaming . Again, it will only transmit at lower resolution. Looks like 720p. Changing settings in moonlight do not appear to do anything. Even after restarting PC completely.

Resolution stays low. But there is not really any lags.


I tried changing my primary screen to the same resolutions as the tablet and Asus laptop. This didn't fix the low resolution in moonlight.

I've searched all over and can't find anyone else reporting this problem.
The low resolution is present even outside of steam. The windows desktop icons and text are hard to read because of the low resolution (on the client device).

It's like the settings in moonlight aren't working or are being over written.

But steamlink creates proper client resolution. So why isn't moonlight ?

Also the color and brightness is bad too on the client (moonlight). But this might be caused by low resolution. It's good on steamlink though.

Turning off HDR on the host PC display settings helps with bad color and brightness but the client supports hdr so it shouldn't be a problem.

Try the "Alternative Solution" here,
https://niquette.ca/articles/sunshine-resolution/

This is what I used before switching to apollo, apparently they've added the built in solution after I left.

One thing to check as well, your monitor needs to support the resolution you're trying to set, otherwise it will fail. Test the QRES commands locally with the resolution you're trying to set before moving on to testing with moonlight.



As to why you had issues with Apollo, my first guess would be to ensure you've removed the sunshine config from moonlight and paired successfully with Apollo. Then make sure you set client permissions in apollo

Apollo is the easy answer. You need to set the custom start and stop commands on game launch. For windows it should be fairly easy, they’re posted somewhere on the wiki. I’ll see if I can find them later

Most people that I know use Moonlight and Sunshine as a NVidia shield software replacement for handheld devices. I stream to my Retroid Pocket 5 with it at 1080p. No lag or anything. I do doubt that it could do higher resolution and your use case could easily be pushing the tech over the limits.

Tried Apollo. Can't get it to connect. Says PC is offline. Though it lets me add it.

I checked Apollo settings. Not sure why it's not connecting. I don't see anything that would cause that.
It kept duplicating the icon for my desktop but all say offline.

I switched back to sunshine and had to re-add the link.

Same thing I did on Apollo but it works on sunrise.

Also I forgot to mention that not only does the moonlight resolution setting not apply. Neither does the setting for window or borderless. I'm going to guess the fps and bitrate setting are also not applying.

So something is blocking multiple moonlight settings.

I know Nvidia can cause some issues but I'm using an AMD GPU. Up to date. Also all my bios are up to date.

I've tried changing a few sunlight settings from guides with no luck. Do you happen to recall where that setting is in sunlight ?

I went through all the settings. I don't believe there was any setting for resolution. Only in moonlight.


I did find one old reddit post that sounded semi related to my issue and someone just told the user to switch to apollo and then the user responded "thanks that fixed it".



Yeah maybe I should just give Apollo a try.

[quote]Is there a community for gaming device streaming on Lemmy?[/quote]

Even if there is, I wouldn't try going to super-specialized communities, because there aren't enough users to support them at the moment. I'd move to more-specialized ones when existing communities have too much traffic to handle.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=streaming

I don't see anything specifically dedicated to streaming games.

[quote]Both on 5g network. [/quote]

[quote]I experience constant notifications of poor connection even though both the tablet and PC are in the same room as the router.[/quote]

I'm assuming that you mean 5GHz WiFi, rather than 5G; 5G would be a cellular link to a phone tower. I'd hope that you have the tablet on the WiFi network; if not, that would certainly limit the available bandwidth.

[quote]The screen also turns off after 2 minutes even though I’ve changed it to 30 minutes. Turned off battery saver. Tried everything.[/quote]

I don't know of another setting in vanilla Android that would do that. Could be that you have some other Android app that can turn off the display.

There's an Android app permission for "keep screen awake". If whatever Android app does Steam link uses that, could check to see whether that permission is enabled.

I guess it's possible that it might be overheating and that some kind of protective thing is kicking in. I've normally seen Android devices reboot when that happens.

Might try leaving it plugged into a USB charger, see if it stops. Desktop OSes on laptops typically have different settings for "on wall power" and "on battery".

Plug the PC in wired. If you happen to have a USB network adapter, plug that into your phone and tablet and use that wired too. Wifi sucks for streaming. One side wired is significantly better, both sides wired is best. That might also solve your resolution issue, since the connection is better.

Have you configured sunlight to accept the moonlight resolution and set it on the host pc? It doesn’t do it by default you have to configure the commands. Apollo is a fork of sunlight that has built in virtual display support and will do it for you, if your host is running windows I would recommend.

Yes 5ghz

Yeah I have "keep awake if plugged in" checked on tablet. Tried that. Didn't work.

I went through dev options and nothing seems related.

I have no idea what could cause it. I don't have too many apps on it. I mostly use it for reading.

Maybe resetting settings might fix it. But since the streaming seems to be working better on the laptop anyway I guess I'll just use it.

I would guess the internet receiver (modem?) in the tablet isn't as good as the laptops.

I did suspect some background process on the tablet was causing the regular hiccups. It really was almost exactly like every 10 seconds.

Laptop bigger anyway. So I'll use it.

I don't think the Wi-Fi is the problem for moonlight. It's not stuttering or anything. I'm not looking to run at 4k but just a 1080 would be fine. But it's stuck at 720p. The moonlight settings dont change the resolution. They don't seem to apply any changes I make aside from the setting for different encodings (though even those show inconsistent results on image. The only thing they do is make video errors where image is super dark and high contrast).


I think something is overriding the resolution settings in moonlight. But I don't know what.

Since it's stuck on 720 for both laptop and tablet, I think it's something on my PC end.


PC to laptop is decent with steamlink. It only has a lag every now and then. I think it streams at 1920. Looks like it.

So no reason why moonlight can't do the same or 1080 with current connection.