Will this give me a good experience with games if i use a gaming pc as a host (connected via ethernet) streaming to a laptop over wifi. I want to get rid of my fat and loud gaming laptop and replace it with something nicer and quieter.
It works well enough. I am even lazier and stream from my gaming PCs Wi-Fi to my Ethernet connected TV, aside from the occasional hiccup where input goes fucking retarded for a second every half hour it is ok enough. I played through cyberpunk 2077 this way multiple times.
Any way I can use Moonlight to stream from my PC to a Raspberry Pi via ethernet? My aim is to emulate Sega Saturn on my PC then output 240p composite from my Pi. I'd emulate on the Pi itself if it were a Pi5, but I've only got a Pi4 which just isn't fast enough for Saturn.
Yeah it's pretty good. You can stream at like 200mbps h264 and get sub 8ms total latency for encode, transfer, decode.Make sure you've got a good AP (like at least 160mhz band for 5ghz).I think you won't notice the delay unless maybe you're playing a hardcore precision platformer like super meat boy.
Depends what game it is, but yeah as a general rule it works great. It's the fastest streaming option you have.If you're on the same network though (and so presumably in the same building) why don't you just go play on the desktop directly?
>>108769945https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Installing-Moonlight-Qt-on-Raspberry-Pi-4
>>108769660Yes. Just put make the fat gaming laptop into a game hosting laptop and put that away where the noise doesnt get to you
>>108769945>What I thought I'd do, was take out ALL of the benefit of playing on a CRT!Enjoy your compression artifacts and lag, idiot.
>>108770213>implying you need a high bitrate at 240p>implying composite isn't the benefit of playing on a CRT
>>108770213>lagHow many ms?
I recently moved into a house and my bedroom is way too far from the living room for it to make sense to connect to the TV.I stream at 4k60hz, I hardly notice any difference if I am gaming 6+ feet away. and if you are just streaming locally the delay is like 15 ms max.
>>108769660yeah it works great as long as your access point is wifi 6 or better and the client also has wifi 6 or better
even if you have gigabit and ethernet to ethernet, it still isn't perfect. it is, however, very very good. so yes, go for it.
>>108769660Yes. Even with wifi5 my phone is perfect streaming at 1080p@120 with good bitrate and without lag. Best portable PC there is. I currently just plug a g8 galileo and I am good to go.
>>108769660>Will this give me a good experience with games if i use a gaming pc as a host (connected via ethernet) streaming to a laptop over wifi. I want to get rid of my fat and loud gaming laptop and replace it with something nicer and quieter.As long as you have realistic expectations.I'm actually doing this right now, on Wifi 5 on 2.4 Ghz, on both host and guest.720p @ 1.5 mbps works fine.But I mostly do oldschool RTS games and such.
>>108769945Why there's no Web UI solution to this?Like I doubt most games can't be emulated and streamed to a web browser like some of these web sites do
>>108769660just dont go to their discord and speak about anything. theres a little powertripping faggot bitch named yungballz who will ban you for friviolous shit
>>108769660Yes, it's very good.
I run it on NSW without problems but only for VNs. No clue about more intensitive games. It eliminated my need for a Steam Deck, at least.
depends on the client device. they can differ from near zero latency to hundreds of ms.
>>108769660yeah I use it on my TV to game in my recliner when I don't want to sit at the desk and that's over wifi
>>108772223that is to say, Xbox Series consoles are some of the best client devices (and Moonlight is in the official Xbox store as well) where Chromecast 4k/google tv streamer are some of the worst in terms of latency. My Xbox Series S is relegated to being a streaming device these days.
>>108769660Yes. Works even on 3ds
>>108769660yeah its pretty good, heres me streaming 40mbps 1440p 120hz hdr hevc video to my phone, slowed down to illustrate the input lag. You just have a couple things to watch out for. 1. hevc is gonna be much better than h264, av1 is just not a good option yet.2. both the encoder on your host and your decoding hardware on your client needs to be low latency. Avoid software decoding.3. wifi 6 or 6e is gonna be much better for network latency. I had the wifi chip on the back of my desktop configured as a wifi 6 ap for my phone specifically for game streaming. For me the latency was about perceptually same as a bluetooth controller connected to something like a ps5, 40ms~ end to end, i even played left4dead2 on my phone lying on my bed with gyro aiming and i was getting headshots no problem
