Thanks for this. Absolutely blows my mind that I can stream games at Ultra settings from my PC to my deck over WiFi 5 with no noticeable latency... Super cool!

IMPORTANT NOTE: You have to enable UPnP in Sunshine to stream over the internet (as opposed to just streaming on your LAN). This was working great for me at home, but was unusable away from home until I figured out the need to change this setting. Maybe this is mentioned in the video, but I didn't spot it.

A couple things for folks having a tough time getting the "add games" part working at 8:00 - if you press shift + right click on your game shortcuts, you will have the option to copy the path of your shortcuts to paste into the Sunshine detached commands box. Also in Sunshine, make sure you click the little green plus sign, and then click save at the bottom.

Thank you so much for this! I’ve been using XCloud streaming and this saves me money, makes me use Gamepass more, and breathes new life into my Deck :)

Thank you for this incredible helpful information I dropped your first like and then I shared the video on my Facebook page of the same name which is a tradition of mine for all the great gaming channels this year! I got my steam deck Saturday it’s the greatest $400 ever spent in the history of time! Thank God for this blessing of a device from Valve my PC died in December and there was no way that I could budget a rebuild.

Wow...I can't describe how amazing this Moonlight app is. Thanks for the tutorial video it was easy to follow and understand

You're my hero, just found out about gamestreams upcoming death and needed an alternative asap.

Great video - subbed. For info the config and setup where you enter a un and password is now automated on the windows installer which will bring you to around 4:08 in the video

Nice guide, thanks. I think you should add your plugins video to description tho, since you mentioned it.

Dude thanks so much for this!!!!! I can play Baldurs gate on my couch while my partner plays Hello Kitty Adventure next to me…this is a dream come true lol. I am not savvy with this kind of thing usually and you make it very simple to understand! Thanks again!

Now I can finally play Cyberpunk for more than an hour at a time! It even made my custom modded maps for black ops 3 zombies more stable to stream. Thank you!

Great video, detailed instrucrions! Already tried this when I had Nvidia videocard. Looking forward to try out Sunshine now I have AMD.

This worked without issue. Thank you. The only thing I had to troubleshoot was moonlight not detecting my pc, but a quick google search and fixed the issue.

Super simple and works a treat, great video!

Great video, I have to try this out. I have just been streaming games through Steam. I like that this gives me access to my desktop, it opens lots of possibilities up.

For those experiencing the “Connection Terminated Error -1” like me every time you connect, I found the culprit to be an audio device, strangely. If you open up your audio devices by right clicking the sound symbol on your PC (windows tray bottom right of screen) I had two audio devices called something like “Steam microphone” and “Steam stereo”. When I deleted these two devices, I was able to connect fine with no problems.

Working good for me so far it took ages to get it running smoothly but I finally did it. I also set up Tailscale so I can experiment with WiFi streaming because I'm upgrading to a range of 400-600 mbps WiFi speed in 4 days when I'm currently on 150mbps (its serviceable, latency is pretty much infrequent). LAN seems to be pretty fine as it is as well. But I want to get the best experience possible so I don't have to really game directly on my PC again and just game around the house. This also means I can stream emulated games from my PC to my Deck. I don't need them natively to drain the battery life and heat up the Deck and also not run as well as my PC can. Also storage is limited on the Deck so this is perfect. If only the Steam Deck had an OLED screen, it would be pristine.

Streaming games from my gaming pc to my anbernic. The screen is so small for this 😂😂

Thank you mate all up and running now they can do what they want with game stream in gfe won't effect my shield streaming ability 😄👍

Had nothing but problems with Sunshine/Moonlight between my PC in the office & steam deck in the living room. Have a direct network connection to both. Of course steam deck dock constantly has to have power unplugged. Also have an HDMI cable run from PC to living room AVR. I'm guessing it's the AVR that's the issue. The sheer amount of nonsense I had to go through to get it to work was maddening and it was through Steam streaming. It absolutely did not want to work in Game mode on Steam deck but the games would show up in desktop mode. Would be willing to pay to a company that could get everything to work one click. This tech has been out forever. Doesn't seem worth it if Nvidia is shit canning the concept out of greed to push people to their paid monthly subscription model. Scumbags. All that being said when I got it streaming to the Steam Deck/Dock while playing at the full 4k resolution of the 77" LG Oled in 7.1 stereo through the Marantz SR8015 Jedi Fallen order looked and sounded amazing. Considering the LG has WebOS, which includes an Nvidia app to stream from video cards they host directly it should be possible to install a streaming app directly onto the TV that's on the same network as your gaming PC. I think there's a ton of cash for the dev who makes this happen.

Great video, man, but what I really wanted was to project the contents of the Deck on pc. Every guide I search, specifically for that, only shows the other way around, sharing a windows screen on the Deck. Is it impossible to share Steam Deck's screen with a windows pc without using steam connect?

Moonlight works great for me on the deck with one pretty large caveat. If I put my steamdeck to sleep while its running moonlight and then wake it back up I get signed off my desktop for steam. In fact it seems to happen if any non-steam game is open on my deck when it wakes up. Seems like a bug, I know its supposed to do that if you are running steam games but it's not supposed to happen with non-steam games. I have a ticket open with valve so hopefully they have some tips.

The Wii U 2 is fantastic tbh.

Worked for me. Thanks! Subscribed

I was just using this on my amd pc with my phone that has a 120hz display. I was able to stream at 120hz making me question my Steam deck ownership. Until I realized the gyro didn't work and the performance messed with me a bit. After that my hand started cramping up and I realized how great the deck was. 😊

Quick and simple! Thanks for the video!

Amazing guide!! Thank you very much!

Which HDMI dummy do you use for the Steam Deck? My LG monitor and RTX 3060TI card support 1440p and that’s what I’d like to stream since it’s how I normally play on my rig. Is there a dummy 1440p or dummy 800p for the Steam Deck? Just not sure which one to buy so my monitor doesn’t stay on all day.

Great video Sir! Thanks.....Question though...do you have the 15.6 240Hz Srgb gaming Monitor?

it's been 3 weeks using Moonlight Sunshine my experience are I N C R E D I B L E now i can do everything on my main PC without comprimise! for example when i travelling

Steam Deck controls won't show up in steam on remote PC how do I fix this?!...it literally says no controller recognized ...controls work fine on remote desktop and in Steam OS (Big Size) as soon as I enter game the left stick doesn't work and the A,X button brings up onscreen keyboard

Hey dude, thanks for the video. I'm having some issues I'm hoping you can help 1 - audio still comes out of my PC when streaming, even though I have that option disabled in moonlight 2 - no steam deck controls are working, even though I installed the vigembus

So i tried this, sunshine works nice but it doesnt recognize my razer kishi. What can i do?

I haven't really had much luck with moonlight. I recently started using parsec and for me at least it runs a lot better

I downloaded sunshine and there is no foreground mode

What are some out of the box applications. Sunshine has desktop which is a remote desktop. What are other applications that you uses.

Is it safe to use this Moonlight/Sunshine thing? I mean, you are opening yourself to remote access? Can developers or third party devices use it to take control of your pc? For example if i use chinese projector Magcubic HY320 and hook it up to my router and than install moonlight on it, will it create a security loop?

What nobody ever goes into is how or why this is better than the build in steam game stream functionality?

THX, your video help me a lot, And I have some question hope you can help, steam deck's controller doesn't work on Moonligt if I want to acess my windows PC Desktop, And if I just disconnect moonlight the game will still there running on my PC(Maybe caused by the 'Detached' Commands). Do you have any ideas to solve this problem, so I don't have to use PC everytime to change games. Thanks!

no demo of it working? Goes from programming icons to the outro directly.

Why Dislikes Disabled by Owner? Seeing that makes me feel uneasy. Your video seems good.

Is the desktop set to 720p to match the moonlight setting you used in this vid?

I have some FPS drops on my Deck when in a high action sequence on the game (football) - routinely runs 60, then drops to about 15. Should I be tinkering with settings in the game/emulator or Moonlight to get a better stream?

Hey does anyone have a video/guide for adding applications in Sunshine? This video didn't really help as it doesn't explain each part of adding an application, in fact it's very helpful EXCEPT for that part.

wasn't working for me, unable to get inputs through moonlight on deck, touch screen will click the mouse thats it. Nothing else works, no mouse movements etc :( edit: needed to restart desktop, as well as enable right trackpad to act as a mouse not a joystick in steam controller settings on SD.

hope you respond to my comment but anyway, i am having trouble with the controllers on Moonlight. mind you, it was already hard enough to install Moonlight on my Steam Deck due to an error popping up everytime i tried to install it. thankfully, i did a turnaround and installed it correctly. anyway, i tried playing Persona 5 Tactica on Xbox with Moonlight and yes, the controls work but is there a way to not use the mouse pads? can i just use the Steam Deck normal controls?

I have some questions: 1. How can I set switching off monitor when moonlight is streaming? 2. Can I shutdown PC remotly by moonlight? I know I could do it with start menu on desktop mode but its take some times...

Works great, I have a random issue tho where when using AVG browser the cursor just freeze... work fine with any other browser and anything else. It used to work, idk why it's like that. Otherwise no issues.

This is amazing .... My setup is phone + gamesir x2 pro + 5gz router.... Stream any pc games around my house, 60 fps 1080 with almost no lag....

Hi, I have a question. everytime I end my gaming session and quit the game on steamdeck my pc doesn't end the game it still running. I don't have a problem with this before using moonlight +nvidia streaming. My issue was everytime I end a game on my steamdeck and want to play it again after awhile, there will be two of the same games now running on my pc. I also tick the "Quit app on host PC after ending stream"

does sunshine and moonlight run better than steam link? any major differences in quality, latency, refresh rate, resolution options, or compatibility?

this is such a shitty move of nvidia. Yeah, shure ill buy geforce now when i already have a sweet pc home. i should have bought a 10 meter hdmi cable insted

Would Moonlight mirror to my TV better than the default Windows mirroring?Right now I'm just trying to watch streaming sites on my TV but notice a lot of log when casting to my Fire Stick from the PC.

Im having an issue with Moonlight when i use it to go to the viture/remote desktop ( using Mint btw ) and i open steam the controls on the deck work fine until i ope steam and open a game than the game im playing ( abd even in steam ) doesnt see a controller present if i wanna use the stand alone stick ,buttons , bumpers when mobile on my DECK ! ive tried everything can you help ?

Hey man can I just copy your command lines there for the shortcut or is it gonna be different from mine? Alteast with the first few line cmd then I’ll put the my own path on the “quotation marks”. Am I understanding this correctly? Lol, or did you really make a command prompt to have all that activated? Sorry I’m not so knowledgable with this.

This doesn't work. I guess I'll have to stick with the older version of Nvidia Geforce drivers, because Nvidia GameStream actually works.

Amazing tutorial! Congrats! Do you know if is it possible to stream emulators and the emulator recognize my steam deck controls?

Does this work for productivity applications too. Like unreal and blender

How does the Moonlight/Sunlight combo compare with using the Steamlink app when streaming from PC to Deck?

amazing - thanks

Have you found that streaming from your PC using this method preserves the deck’s battery life since it might be doing less processing, or is it the same as if running an installed game on the deck?

Sadly this does not work for me the way I wanted it to. I've been using Parsec and it's been going great. I just wanted to test the alternatives (see if quality is better, latency and all that). However my problems with Moonlight+Sunshine are simply that I cannot (from what I can tell) keep my Desktop monitors closed while I'm connected to the PC with my steam deck. That's what I want. I have Wake On Lan, open the PC and connect to start playing, but apparently Moonlight doesn't want to do this while my monitors are closed. Parsec does this wonderfully and automatically sets the resolution for the client (the steam deck 1280x800) just like it would be a monitor with that resolution connected. So do you know of a way for me to run this with my monitors closed and Windows running (and sending me) 1280x800 stream?

What is a bit unclear to me, what does Sunshine bring over just adding the games to the Geforce Now gamestream section? As far as I understand, they will only remove the gamestream option from the Nvidia Shield, not from the PC software itself.

i updated sunshine and now my pc is not being displayed anymorei. neither does it find it anymore. what can i do

Great video, thank you. One issue I have is that when in the stream, pressing Start + Select + L1 + R1 does not bring me out of the stream back to the Steam Deck desktop, it instead just pops up a message in the corner about "Action Set Activated Gamepad" and "Action Set Activated Desktop". I just have to hold the power button for 2 seconds and it brings me back to the desktop and says "Connection Terminated". It's not a big issue, but I cannot seem to work it out.

does anyone know if there is a recovery system if u forgot your username/pass? i tried to uninstall and try again still there ...

i dont get a pin option. it just automatically show games when i click it but of course get nothing but errors when attempting to launch.

Hello! Can I use Moonlight on another network besides the one of my house? Example: Can I play my games if my deck is connected on a hotel wi-fi, officer wi-fi, my mother's house wifi, etc or is mandatory to be in the same network to use it?

when i click add cover there are no cover arts, a simple upload button would be sick

As far as I know, youre not able to stream your steam deck in desktop mode to your pc using these, right?

Sunshine was giving my computer issues and i dont know why i was on the game one day and randomly the app started making my wifi shut off completely and my mouse waa twitching for some reason and as soon as i uninstalled it i was able to connect back to my wifi and my mouse stopped twitching

I play fallout 76 from my can with my steamdeck moonlight. I set it up to 1280x800 12mb rate for good quality. One question can I play it on the go? Sure I can get it installed locally via steam store but my friends have it on microsoft store so I got it that way. From what I heard steam and microsoft store version are not cross?

Hi, i've followed your guide and it's amazing! Btw i wanted to ask you if it's possible playing on steam deck while turning the monitor off. If i do this, my steam deck screen turns black, so i have to keep the pc monitor on...is there any possible solution to this?

For some reason when I stream epic games the controls are not working properly. Works fine with steam though, does anyone have a solution to this ?

I'm unable to figure out if i can use this to navigate the steam deck desktop mode through my pc (and maybe transfer files). I enjoy my steam deck but the desktop mode is s slog to navigate using only the steam deck. Any advice is appreciated.

Is there a program that uses MSTP? Sounds like this standard has newer and better tech at first glance. Any thoughts?

the app sure amazing. with that i can play any pc games on my phones. even emulator works on it >w< also watching youtube on my phone (not app. but youtube from my pc browser ) xD

Could you paste the command line stuff in the description or something. I can't read it off the tiny screen.

Any tips for configuring network settings with this set up? I have a 1 gig connection at home and have issues daily when connection gets bogged down or won’t connect to PC at all. I sometimes get the RTSP handshake when this issue creeps up. Any advice at all would be most appreciated

I have the problem. that I have black bars at the top and th ebotton. i tried everything including chanigng the resolutions. But unfortunetaly nothing helps. What can I do, that my Steamdeck stretches the picture out?

i can launch and stream my PC's display to my steamdeck but none of my steamdeck controls work. the newest version of Sunshine doesn't automatically suggest ViGEmBus (as another commenter pointed out), I've tried it with and without ViGEmBus- not controls. I can't even use the trackpad to control my mouse cursor in desktop mode. Seems like this tech is really cool but definitely not ready for prime time.

Just before watching this video: "remote play is impractical. It just doesn't work. I've tried everything. After watching the video: "Valve is incapable of making a remote play client."

for some reason i am not getting any input with the steam deck while connected to my pc. I downloaded the proper driver for game controls, and still it wont recognize input, i can see the screen fine.

does anyone know of a way to use moonlight and stream from my steam deck to my computer from another wifi network different from the one my computer is on like a hot spot or at friends house ?

Is it safe to use sunshine and moonlinght to stream on your cell phone with important and sensible personal information?

Whats the pov on your pc when you’re moonlight streaming? Showing the same display as your handheld device? You cant use your pc while moonlight streaming?

what if you JUST have a steam deck and want to stream on a bigger screen using an IPad, it doesn't seem to work using this tutorial

hi when putting cmd.exe /d (thats where my games are) it opens command promt and does nothing else. Has anyone else had this issue?

Im having an issue adding moonlight to steam, it doesnt show up in the application list, and i cant find it in browse. I have tried right clicking the application and clicking "add to steam" but it just pulls up the same "add a non steam game" menu

Hey I noticed on my steamdeck, after finishing a gamepass game, the stream would continue to run (since it's running as a dettached command). I figured setting a "main" command that I could easily close was the option so it would prompt Sunshine to actually exit, but couldn't find one, so I whipped up this bash script: @echo off echo Starting program... timeout /t 10 echo Checking .exe status :loop tasklist | find /i "GAME" && timeout /t 5 /nobreak > nul && goto loop || goto exit :exit exit Save this as a .bat file and use it as the main command. Notice it says "GAME". You have to find the name of the executable using tasklist inside a cmd.exe window and what exactly tells you there, is the name. For example, for Octopath my gamepass executable is Octopath_Traveler-Win64-Shipping.exe, however I get 'Octopath_Traveler-Win64-S' using tasklist, so that's what I used in the script and voilá. This has to be done for each game you add.

6:20 this is obviously not optimal, you want the native resolution on the streaming pc or you get blurry results.

So do I have to open my PC and put in the pin every time? Or is it a one time deal until I log out?

How do I add Moonlight to gamemode if it doesn't show up within Steam in the add non-steam games dialogue?? I've installed via discover all fine but steam can't seem to detect it..

Hi, i have a 4k monitor, but when i want to play the games through moonlight in steam deck, my pc still use alot of power. Should i change the resoultion to 720 for game? Or how should i do to not consume alot of power if i play my games through moonlight.

Is it possible to make moonlight act as a second display for the host PC? For a Cemu Wii U Gamepad display setup or citra 3ds bottom screen

Is there any chance you could show how to install SUNSHINE on a MAC? I am absolutely stumped by the instructions.

Hi mate, great video. I've followed your command rule, but the games don't seem to launch

I managed to get it to work but I my controls on the steam deck do not work at all, I press every button and nothing happens. Anyone else have a similar issue?

Great video, but please, turn down the music track.

How do you add the shortcut to desktop in moonlight. All that appears for me are my games