After recently releasing a big Stable Steam Client update for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, I highlighted that Remote Play was broken on Steam Deck - and so Valve has now fixed it.
  • @[email protected]English
    1•4 months ago

    Does Sunshine/Moonlight still blow Steam Remote Play out of the water or does this bring them up to par?

    • FubarberryOPMEnglish
      1•4 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.

      • Funderpants
        1•4 months ago

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

    • paraphrandEnglish
      0•4 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?

      • @[email protected]
        1•4 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.