Basically, I would like to know your “best” settings when you are streaming games to your Steam Deck. What settings do you use in Moonlight (on Steam Deck) and what on PC (sunshine)? Do you even use Sunshine? I remember using Nvidia Geforce Experiene years ago when I was streaming from my pc to our TV. Does Sunshine have AV1 or some kind of benefits compared to Geforce Experience Stream thingy?
Thank you very much in advance!
Does Sunshine have AV1 or some kind of benefits compared to Geforce Experience Stream thingy?
Its big benefit is that its code isn’t deprecated. Nvidia deprecated the GFE code back in Februrary. While GFE still works now, if a later patch breaks the streaming part of GFE for any reason, Nvidia won’t fix it.
The other big benefit is that Sunshine works on AMD cards too, not just Nvidia ones like GFE does.
Anyway, “best” settings are extremely dependent on your home setup. How powerful your host is, what your home wifi situation looks like, etc. Settings that work for me probably wouldn’t work for you.
I’m using GFE/Game Streaming with the Moonlight app on Deck. Super easy to get working - no weird drivers to install or anything. If you already have GFE installed anyway? Ready to roll.
There’s not much of a point to going beyond 1080p for the steam deck screen, nor is there for going above 60 FPS (until the OLED version ;) ).
Sunshine has AV1, but there’s not many hardware encoder available for AV1 that aren’t near top of the line video cards (GTX 4xxx series, latest AMD series). the h264/h265 codecs are faster anyways which is important for the latency here (vs. streaming a movie).
The best thing you can do is make sure your network setup at home is top notch. Upgrading my WIFI router did wonders for moonlight streaming to my deck.