Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

    • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      … what exactly do you intend to stream without a display server running? Yes you can run it headless, but you still need x11 or wayland obviously.

      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        I’m relatively new to Linux and this is deeper than a usual topic into a stack I don’t know.

        I have a server, it has a graphics card, and I already have steam running with GameScope so the whole app renders into a single frame buffer.

        I just don’t know how the graphics/app pipeline plumbing needs to work to be able to run that headlessly and stream it, which would be my ideal situation.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          For this to work you need a display to send through the network, but that display needs not be a physical one. So depending on your definition it can be run headless. If you meant without it being plugged to a display then yes, if you meant without having graphical stack installed then no (there would be no point to streaming display without a display).

  • g0nz0li0@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sunshine worked brilliantly under Windows 11, but unfortunately on Linux it lacks the ability to encode the video stream using my RX 7800 XT and microstutters like crazy.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I guess the question is did you set up VA-API and do you have an processor with integrated graphics?

      When I set my instance up, I had to do just a bit of ID’ing since my processor/MB has a iGPU at device 0 that was for debugging purposes and wasn’t going to be up to snuff for encoding.

      • g0nz0li0@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know if it’s the encoder or Wayland being Wayland, but there stutters on the stream (but not the host screen) using VA-API.

        Using the same host/receiver on windows (but a different encoder) there’s no issue so not sure it’s related to VRR or framerate matching as many suggest.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Sunshine has managed to brick my displays twice on Linux. It’s wild how poor sunshine is on Linux.

      Moonlight works flawlessly tho.