For anyone wondering, in general Moonlight is faster for Nvidia GPUs, way more smooth and almost no input lag. Use that if you have one and thank me later
@@Jerome-iwnl there’s an open source version of nvidias gamestream API called Sunshine which will likely become used (and developed on) much more if this goes through. this is crazy tho, it’s been one of the best features of Nvidia gpus (not to mention the Shield) for years now, a feature I expect and paid for when going with Nvidia. Luckily there’s no guarantee this will affect Moonlight yet, it might still work, so we’ll just have to see. If not, we should expect much more development on the Sunshine github. Crazy tho, if it really goes through I may just sell my Nvidia gpu and go AMD. Well have to see I guess
@@dvargas3553 moonlight uses nvidia gamestream. Nvidia is cutting support for gamestream. It’s a guarantee that moonlight will stop working if gamestream is gone. I’m really annoyed that Nvidia would remove this feature that I also paid for. It’s one of the reasons i chose nvidia over amd graphics. So annoying
This was one of the videos that got me to switch. I set up Sunshine/moonlight on my Steam Deck and never looked back. I liked how streaming was implemented in the SteamOS UI. That is the only advantage to Steam Remote Play. The disadvantages: random quality drops rendering unplayable, random technical issues like flickering screen, terribly input latency, etc. Every night I wanted to play started with 30 minutes of tinkering with strange issues. I don't know how Valve has such a poor remote play solution but it really is their worst software.
Hey thanks for this video, I randomly found it when browsing the web and I didn't know there was a steam link alternative that had way less input lag, I can now finally games that require low latency on my TV. I'm enjoying Lies of P atm. There's still some lag compared to directly on the pc but it's like 10-20 ms (using sunshine and moonlight) now 40-50. cheers.
Hi Selim, I haven't bought a Chromecast with Google TV, so this might be a stupid question. Did you side load Moonlight or was it on the app store to download? If you side loaded it, what was the process? Many thanks for this!
It was on the Google play store and is just as easy to download and setup as on an Android phone. Me and 3 friends actually played 4 hours yesterday without hiccups (4 Bluetooth controllers connected to the CCwGT)
and both are casting from your gaming pc? this looks pretty good with moonlight. really torn whether I should get nvidia shield tv or the new chromecast. any thoughts? I just wanna play my steam games on my TV wirelessly.
All but stadia streams from a PC. The props of Nvidia Shield TV would maybe be USB ports (CC can get some with a USB hub). IDK how much they differ in the interface, but if you want to spend 3 times more on a shield, I've heard they have great AI upscaling (great for turning 1080p to 4k etc). It probably also has a better processor so you can emulate N64 games in higher framerate. For moonlight, streaming services and emulate SNES the Chromecast TV does the job perfectly fine, if you pay extra for the Shield you get extra features and performance.
@@hjorthall not really concerned about running anything on it natively, which is why I'm considering the Chromecast... but i've heard about a lot of folks complaining about Steam Play being unplayable on the new Chromecast because of high latency/delays. Was this not your experience?
@@kebongski Higher latency than moonlight, yes clearly. I can actually give it a try tomorrow morning and give you a subjective analysis of the latest release. I will tell you though, I also own a VALVE Steam Link and that, too, feels sluggish compared to moonlight. So I would guess it's a problem with the streaming protocol itself and not the device. (I'm saying I think any device will feel sluggish running steam streaming compared to moonlight).
@@kebongski I tried it now and can still verify it's not a great experience (just as bad as the steam link). Basically when compared to moonlight the input delay is a few ms higher and the image can sometimes get weird compression artifacts and lose 2-3 frames every 10-15 seconds. It's "fine" but I would never use it oven the moonlight experience.
I've had huge issues with Steam Link on the new Chromecast TV, display latency has also been at 42-58 ms, even at 3 Mbps 720p! Tried all the settings and combinations... I can stream with the same router to my Oculus Quest 2 in 4K 90 fps in stable 30 ms at 80 Mbps bitrate! Steam Link doesn't work well at all on the Chromecast TV; gotta be the decoding on the device I guess?
Probably although, as seen in this video, Moonlight decodes the image way faster + I hade some experience of raising the frame rate to 120fps (with major tearing) for even lower latency. I believe the steam link app isn't at all optimized or using a slower codec. If you have a modern Nvidia GPU you should try out Moonlight. Maybe moonlight is faster since it's hardware specific, encoder baked into the gpu which lowers the latency, no clue.
i have the same problem... even with a ethernet connection the steam link app is losing frames... idk why but it is pretty annoying.. moonlight works well tho
I don't have any numbers, I use moonlight over wifi to play Hogwarts Legacy and the latency with encoding, transfer and decoding is probably 20-40ms. Never had issues with reaction puzzles.
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