r/MoonlightStreaming

Currently a law student deciding between a MacBook and an iPad Pro 13" + Magic Keyboard setup. My day-to-day is mostly reading, writing, drafting, and light office work (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) — all of which I'm told iPadOS handles well enough now. I love the form factor and display of the iPad, so I’m considering accepting the cons of using it as a laptop and attempting to alleviate them with moonlight.

The plan for anything heavier (coding, video/photo editing, gaming) is to stream from my desktop PC at home via Moonlight + Apollo. My home setup is very dialed in and works great. The main unknown is relying on client networks when I'm away — school, my research clerkship, etc. Those tend to have solid internet and I can VPN back home, so I'm not too worried.

For those using Moonlight as part of a similar "iPad as laptop replacement" setup:

- How has streaming held up on school/office/public networks via VPN?

- Any latency or quality issues that made certain tasks (coding, data work) frustrating vs. at home?

- Anything you wish you'd known before going this route?

Appreciate any real-world experience — most of what I find online is home network use cases.

one i start an artemis session after about 40-50 minutes the game hangs and unhangs itself while constantly making a usb connecting/disconnecting sound for a straight minute of hang/unhang and then the stream goes back to normal.

tried reinstalling Apollo and sudo vda to no avail.

I know Moonlight has a native option to use the host PC mouse, but that doesn't work for games. So is there any workaround for this? It's a bit of an annoyance imo, and I haven't seen anything as of yet speaking about a solution to this

Does anyone know what happened to my settings for Moonlight? Its worked great for ever and this morning the Moonlight UI (even before I attempt to connect to a host computer) is way too wide for the Steam Deck screen.

How do I get it to properly scale on Steam Deck again? I've tried SteamOS and Moonlight updates, and fiddling with resolution options in Steam Deck and Moonlight settings but nothing seems to get it working properly again.

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Do I need to do anything on my host PC (using apollo)? For example Wukong and running RenoHDR, do I need to still activate HDR on my windows PC? My client is a mac mini m4 hooked up to my TV LG B4. I already have the mac mini running HDR so my TV recognizes HDR. I turn on Experimental HDR in moonlight and I just stream like that BUT I don't have HDR turned on in windows. My confusion is since I'm streaming it to my TV that's already on HDR mode do I do the same from my PC?

Dimensity 8300 is giving me 7-9 m/s decoding latency at 2560×1600p but it doesn't feel stable there jitters when I open multiple app.Can anyone shere experience?

Hi !

3 days ago I set up moonlight on my iPhone and sunshine on my host PC. It worked fantastically and with Tailscale I was able to stream from anywhere.

However yesterday when I tried to stream again it crashed my win11 PC. After fiddling w sunshine settings I got it working by deactivating kb+m inputs but keeping the controller inputs. Worked fine.

Today, I tried playing again without touching any of the settings and it crashes my PC completely. It’s hard to trouble shoot what is wrong with it bc I haven’t touched anything since last night. I’m assuming it has to do with steam input but I can’t seem to find a solution that is durable…

The second I touch my Bluetooth controller or the touch screen one that comes w moonlight the PC gets a blue screen of death and restarts.

I’d love to get it to work, esp after seeing it could ! Has anyone gone through smthg similar ?

So, when i play with artemis on tv and bt connected ps4 controller + joycon pair for it takes two

It works fine and shows ps4 controllers like x o etc but joycon rumble doesn’t work

so i tried, native and connect ps4 controller, joycons on windows

But now they are not being deteced

So, how to use the driver’s which apollo use when streaming for native play

But by default none controllers are being detected in

I tried ds4 but it’s deteching as xbox controller

It can be easy, so i need help guys

Streaming from my home PC to my phone on a different network using Apollo/Artemis. I have a Gamesir G8+ that I use to play. I can use the controller normally by disabling steam input, but then the game shows PS4 buttons when paired in PS4 mode. I enabled Steam Input (I want to use gyro to mouse anyways), but now button prompts rapidly switch between PS4 and Xbox when walking around, or PS4 and KBM when using gyro aim. I can deal with the button prompt switching when using gyro as I don't need to see those prompts then, but during the main game I need it to recognize normal inputs. I also had an issue where after enabling gyro the right stick became incredibly unresponsive, but it isn't happening consistently.

I tried swapping the controller into Switch Pro mode, but whenever I try to use gyro it reverts to PS4 inputs. I moved over to Steam Link which solved the input swapping issue, but I can't get Steam Link to read the gyro from either Switch Pro mode or PS4 mode. I'm at my wits end, does anyone have a solution that will work?

I am using Tailscale to access my computer at home using a wake on lan. Running sunshine and Tailscale as a root startup system I am able to get into moonlight anywhere remotely which I then use to sign in with my keyboard but dang the IPhone mouse setup is killing me. I turned on AssistiveTouch and it shows the grey mouse cursor but when going into moonlight it doesn’t line up with the mouse in moonlight. It’s almost not even usable. Has anyone gotten this to work for remote work? I’ve only played games locally and remotely using a controller but haven’t been able to use it for business (mouse and keyboard) work specifically on my iPhone

Hello everyone,

recently got into Moonlight/Sunshine and after reading a lot I'm still unsure about vSync, Resolution and Framecap.

Host @ home: 7800x3d + Radeon 9070XT, 5GHz Wireless, 2560x1600p 180hz Monitor

Client @ anywhere: Ryzen 4650u + iGPU, Wireless, 1080p 60hz Monitor

Moonlight Settings on Client: 1080p, 60FPS, Ticked vSync and FrameBuffering

My question is: If my client only has 1080p monitor and in Moonlight I set the setting to 1080p + 60FPS, what do I need to do on my Host PC? Set its internal resolution to 1080p and cap at 60hz, so its matching the settings in moonlight/my laptop? Afterwards, do I need to cap the framerates of the game (on host?) to 60fps (or 58?) aswell with RTSS?

thanks

Trying to use the G Cloud like a handheld PC while streaming to a desktop. Main function I'm struggling with is the ability to switch quickly from mouse and keyboard to controller functions.

The built-in mouse function unfortunately is not robust enough for what I'm trying to do, mainly full functioning keyboard presses with the controller.

I tried Handheld Companion on the desktop but have landed on AntiMicroX, as HC didn't seem to function at all but is the choice id go with if I could. AMX ... Functions

Any rocking this set up and have some advice?

Basically the title. I've tried both Crimson Desert and Elder Scrolls Online and for some reason when I stream them to my Legion, I can only select 1080p and 4k. I'm not sure why? is it because the resolution of my Legion is 1920x1200?

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been using Moonlight/Sunshine setups for a while and kept running into the same issue. if your PC is off or something breaks, you’re basically locked out until you physically fix it.

The usual solutions (VPN to wake on lan, scripts, smart plugs, router configs, etc.) all work, but they still feel like a bunch of DIY steps just to do something that should be simple or unstable/unsafe.

So I started building a small hardware + software setup that lets me:

• Wake my PC remotely from a fully shutdown state
• Check if it’s online instantly
• Power it on/off from anywhere
• Avoid most of the messy setup/workarounds

It’s still early (MVP stage), but I’ve tested it across different networks and it’s been working reliably so far.

I have a quick demo of it in action in this post

Curious what people here think:

• Does this solve a real annoyance in your setup?
• Or do most people already have this handled cleanly?