Play ANY PC Game on Steam Deck Remotely with Moonlight! - BEST Quality and Latency TUTORIAL

[@SantiagoSantiago]

*You can also do this to play PS5 and PS4 on Deck:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJjEgWVuhKinjqM

[@NAME-2505]

Can i do this on phone the ps remote oficial suck

[@vadim6656]

moonlight app is no longer on steam deck linux app store...what do i do now????

[@tzurielmeir4729]

just a recommendation, lock your host pc to whatever fps you configured the stream. it'll be the smoothest and won't skip any frames. use rivatuner for the best results. you can also lock your steamDeck's TDP to 3 Watts so you're forcing it to use as little as possible. Thank you for the guide Santiago much love!

[@MrBirdHd]

@@tzurielmeir4729 why make it use as little as possible other than battery life

[@tzurielmeir4729]

@@MrBirdHd no reason to use more as its not needed. and yes its mostly for battery life.

[@PlagasX]

How do I do this exactly within rivatuner?? and what program am I fps limiting??

[@HearMeLearn]

Good tips but you don't need to use the TDP limit. Just set it to the hz of your decks screen and it will only use whatever it needs and nothing more, forcing it down might cause latency

[@kingtut469]

Didn't expect this method to be so good. Thank you Santiago!

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Glad you liked it!

[@LCast31]

Thank you for this. Now i can play on my Legion Go big screen with 1440p screen streaming from my pc with Silent hill 2 remake . Silent hill 2 is not optimized as of now yet on handheld devices

[@BSMixi]

Unreal how well this worked. Great guide!

[@alexander4722-h9e]

Thank you for your work man, for doing so many useful videos for our great steam deck community. Thanks and best of luck!

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Thank you very much!

[@zooziz5724]

Thanks man. It got realy frustrating when using native steam streaming games wouldn't register steamdeck controller and would force me using deck as keyboard and mouse. This sorted everything out, thanks. Although I still don't know how to setup stream into proper aspect ratio to usebwholw screen for steam deck

[@wappon-d9t]

really useful video!Thank you from Japan

[@jackkaminski3001]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@Swegrid]

Thanks a lot Santiago ! Hi from Paris

[@eduinlopez546]

Moonlight has a Switch version, that's great.

[@SantiagoSantiago]

I had to oc the cpu for it to run well on Switch, but works great!

[@VivDream]

Works great, thanks for the guide ❤

[@Andre_ASG]

Excellent! Gracias! Quick tip - if your steam deck is showing extremely bright display settings, turn off HDR on your PC! Also, I'm guessing if I connect my Steam Deck to ethernet means I'll be getting even better streaming quality? 🤔💭 Will try it out now..

[@arvuza6369]

Lovely, thanks for the video!

[@ascerta]

Excellent tutorial.

[@panchorosselli]

Gracias papish. Un lujo.

[@userharp]

Si solo les deja usar la aplicacion conectandose a la misma red podria ser problema de los puertos de su router, pueden crear una red virtual con zero tier one para que la pc como el dispositivo que este conectado a esta pc esten funcionando en la misma red. Si el servicio tecnico de su internet sabe de eso puede configurarlo

[@tonybreeden863]

Advertised resolutions option doesn't show up under my audio/video settings

[@walulu6531]

Is there a way to get controllers working for this? I want to put it on a tv in living room but the xbox controller won't work unless it's synced to original pc.

[@harwoodmichel]

This doesn't work for me, I always get the message "Slow connection to PC please reduce your bitrate" even if the bitrate on the lowest and with the lowest resolution, by the way I am using the TP Link Archer AX12 Wifi 6 Router, I have searched for solutions online and found none, and streaming to my Steam Deck from my PC is the reason I went to buy this router, I'm just confused, don't know what else to do. I wonder how your are able to stream well like this.

[@corym4509]

Did you ever solve this issue?

[@obelisk9121]

@@harwoodmichel hey, had this issue and it was because my pc was prioritizing its on internet connection because of an option in Lenovo vantage. The option was network boost. Vantage is proprietary but maybe you have something similar enabled. Im guessing the option makes the pc hog all the bandwidth and won’t give high bandwidth wireless connections any room to breathe. Hope this helps

[@harwoodmichel]

@@obelisk9121 I am using a lenovo PC too. I never thought of this. Unfortunately I already returned the Router. But I might go get it again to try your suggestion. Thank you

[@harwoodmichel]

@@corym4509 Unfortunately I already returned the Router. But I might go get it again to try @obelisk9121's suggestion

[@Xander_Kai]

Thank you!

[@Apollopayne25]

Followed these steps. The game loads but no controls works?

[@xkarzer]

Is starting the application what launches the server on local host or is the server always running?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

As long as Sunshine is running, it will be available to access from Moonlight, to stop the server, close Sunshine on the host PC

[@melonut]

I try steamlink before and it terrible. I think it because of my crappy router but i try this today and it amazing. Both desktop and my ally is on 5ghz wifi . No birate and fps drop . Love it so much

[@blackheart909]

Please do 4070ti videos I got a 4070ti and i5 14500 it’s perfect midrange. And steam deck

[@SantiagoSantiago]

I will consider it, the 4070 ti is a bit too high end for my channel lol

[@Laffey16]

Yea that isn't mid range... Good combo tho, prefer a super tho

[@AlexBell1991]

Good alternative if you don't want to use Geforce Experince.

[@NAME-2505]

I can open sunshine on my web browser do you have other option ro try to share my pc to my phone?? Please.

[@PraanKz]

i followed your steps but on moonlight it is showing the ratio as 16:9 instead of 16:10. how did you do it since i notice you dont have black bars when streaming your PC onto the steamdeck?

[@artlemoon]

you need change PC resolution to 1920x1200

[@tile2596]

Once you are on the desktop, how do you do to right click and go to the settings (150%) ? Cant find it. Thank you!

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! In the steam controller options at 08:15, map the left trackpad to right mouse click, hope it helps!

[@xMaggostx]

I'm still having those black bars on the top and the bottom while playing GoW Ragnarok for example. I've set the resolution on Moonlight at 800p and created the custom resolution on Sunshine too, but the game on my PC is running at 1080p though, do I need to change it too?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! Set your desktop resolution to 800p, god of war ragnarok should match the resolution doing that, hope it helps!

[@xMaggostx]

@@SantiagoSantiago Thank you very much!

[@ericcantona6536]

@@xMaggostx does it work now at 800p ?

[@rajaba21]

Hello there, nice tutorial, but i got a problem, my pc resolution doesnt alternate automacally, could you help me?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! Glad it helped, the resolution doesn't change automatically unfortunately

[@Kylezx54]

i have a question i know your pc has to been on is there a way that you can turn on your pc with the deck or with moonlight so you dont have to turn it on manually

[@SantiagoSantiago]

You should be able to wake it up with Moonlight if the PC is on sleep and you are in the same network. If the PC is on sleep and not off, it should be fine

[@TryAgainPlays-rx6vl]

When sleep deck goes to sleep my game on pc freezes, and some times the controls don't work with steamdeck being only accepting trackpads

[@DoctorSpaniel]

thank you santiago; but does this mean that every time i want to play on the steam deck to my pc, i have to manually set the resolution and scale? is there no way to set that automatically?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! I do it to match the pixels 1:1, but you don't need to if you don't want to, haven't tried to automate that yet, will let you know if I find a way :)

[@Taylor-us1zr]

Does the resolution of the PC need to be 1900x1200 in order to do supersampling on the steam deck? My pc monitor is set to 1920x1080 by default.

[@SantiagoSantiago]

That's if you want to stay on 16:10, you can also do 1920x1080, but you will have black bars at the top and bottom, you can also de 1280x800

[@sugarhiIl]

How do I add the 1920x1200 resoultion 11:42, it does not show up on my list

[@alf2595]

Can I do this and also connect the steam deck to a different monitor and play? I also have a wheel to play racing games and can this being dock be able to send the wheel inputs to the main computer?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

In that case it would be better to use a dock with an HDMI connector and plug it in directly to the monitor, not sure about the wheel compatibility though

[@alf2595]

@@SantiagoSantiago I was able to try it and I play American truck simulator but the moonlight/sunshine only has the Xbox and PlayStation controller. I searched that maybe using virtualHere ( a usb server ) to connect the wheel on the deck and use it on the main pc.

[@PlagasX]

What if my internet upload speed is only 20mbps and I'm at a friend's house wifi. Should I stream at 1280x800? I have a steam deck oled

[@SantiagoSantiago]

You should be fine at 800p, just lower the bitrate and consider h265 as the encoder so you get good image quality at lower bitrates

[@PlagasX]

@SantiagoSantiago Thanks so much man, gonna try it now. Love your vids btw!

[@DevilishTay]

Hello does sunshine restore the pcs hz and res one streaming is done?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! If you changed the desktop resolution of the pc, then you need to manually put it back

[@DevilishTay]

@@SantiagoSantiago oh i meant if i use the program does it change my pcs res? And if so does it changd it back when im done streaming? Saw on reddit that people said that it changes ur res everytime u stream and dosnt restore it back to default once stream is done

[@SantiagoSantiago]

For me it stays the same once I finish streaming, the thing is, I always change the resolution when I get into the PC to get it to fit to the smaller screen

[@DevilishTay]

@@SantiagoSantiago do you mean u connect to the pc with moonlight and change the res in windows? does moonlight/sunshine not do that by itself? if not what res should i use?

[@giuseppearnese]

Guys help i live in a 3rd floor palace and i have my garage with my old pc I should stream my games from up(my home) to downstairs Lag?delays? This method is valid for my situation??? Greetings from italy

[@kjellbeats]

Hey, is this better than using the Steam Remote play Feature?

[@Gaming.on.android]

yes

[@SantiagoSantiago]

In my opinion it's much better than Steam's method

[@kjellbeats]

@@SantiagoSantiago cool, thanks!

[@kjellbeats]

remote play is kind of what i got my legion go for so i definitely have to check this out

[@electroelysium2281]

What's the latency like on the SD OLED through Moonlight (WIFI, when away from home / on another Network?? Can anyone answer that question, I can't find any details about that anywhere and I've been looking for quite some time...

[@PlagasX]

id like to know as well as I'm going to be away from home and using a friend's wifi :(

[@electroelysium2281]

@@PlagasX Well, I will test it this weekend on my brand new SD OLED. I setup everything and I'm ready to go to my work trip with my Deck.

[@StockImagesMan08]

Can you test out the Ghost Recon games?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Soon :)

[@bajgen]

SeemsGood!

[@Elhabad_ibn_youssef]

What was the battery life using moonlight?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

4-5 hours

[@Elhabad_ibn_youssef]

@@SantiagoSantiago thanks for the reply..... Seems kind of short tho

[@cheeese555]

@@Elhabad_ibn_youssef 4-5 hours compared to playing locally on the steam deck is like 1-2 hours, is a lot better

[@tonybreeden863]

I keep getting unable to connect to PC error or moonlight even though I am entering the correct IP address

[@S7PH123]

Hello dear santi . Can this sunshine/moonlight method be a solution for people like me having a low end gpu (like 1050ti) to play AAA games like Hagwarts legacy in 720 with High preset and ~60fps and play it on mobile screen smoothly???(rather than at the pc itself 1080 low 30fps on monitor screen😅)

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! Yeah it's a good idea so you can play at a lower resolution on a smaller screen, but don't expect 60 on new games

[@MihaiCornean]

huh? why did you match the resolution on the pc?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

So it fits the Steam Deck's screen aspect ratio

[@AdanNey]

Works to play game pass games instaled on pc? Funciona para poder jugar juegos de gamepass que estan instalados en la pc?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Si, vas a ver la pantalla de tu pc en otro dispositivo, asi que mientras la pc que es host lo corra, va a funcionar 💪

[@S-A-T-U-R-N-I-A]

Thanks

[@jorgedavidestupinan7370]

Santiago hice el tutorial y todo funcionó bien pero en mi teléfono,lo único que no tiene la plataforma es una opción de pinch to zoom para que ocupe toda la pantalla de mi celular,existe una opción que se llama strech video to Fullscreen pero solo se estira a los lados lo cual distorsióna la imagen sabes alguna solución?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Buenas! Podés en tu pc agregar una custom resolution que sea la misma que tu teléfono, elegir esa en la pc y moonlight, debería usar toda tu pantalla a menos que el juego no soporte ultrawide, saludos y suerte!

[@jorgedavidestupinan7370]

@@SantiagoSantiago lo solucione Santiago muchísimas gracias hermano

[@MrDavesnooker]

Can i use this method, even if my pc wasnt so strong?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Yes

[@Lostnot]

followed every step but my controls on the deck just dont work any idea why?

[@alvinj3530]

Same just finished setting up my pc and streaming to my steam deck oled and the only thing that works is the touchscreen input and the right trackpad. Is there a controller layout we need to be using?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Make sure the steam controller config is set to be a normal gamepad + the mouse trackpad. After that if it doesn't detect the buttons press the "..." key a couple times, sometimes when I change the brightness I don't have input until I press "..." twice, kinda weird, but works here

[@Lostnot]

@@SantiagoSantiago will give it a try

[@Lostnot]

@@SantiagoSantiago just tested it but no luck, it doesn t detect my input no matter what

[@Sonicneptunes]

Great video as always. HELLO EVERYONE!

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey, thanks!

[@PlagasX]

Why not just use GeForce or steam link? Is this better?

[@Vahex4]

Much

[@LukusMaxamus]

How would this work with an ultra wide monitor? Would the screen mirror to the deck at 21:9 or would it change?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Just by setting the resolution to 1280x800 or 1920x1200 in your desktop and in-game, it will look correct on your Deck 💪

[@LukusMaxamus]

@@SantiagoSantiago ok thank you! Keep up the great content:)

[@alexismartel6917]

great video thanks!!! it works great but I noticed in some games the fps drops, doesnt drop on the host pc but drops on the steam deck. bitrate its on 50mbps, do you think its that?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Might be a wifi thing, try 40mbps and good luck!

[@TheGajos]

So you don't propose Steam Link?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

This looks way better and has less latency than Steam Link

[@Elfrades]

Can I turn off the monitor and go back to my seat?

[@electroelysium2281]

Yes

[@israelrieck6255]

Steam deck AS HOST work? Streaming steam deck to smartphone

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Hey! Get Sunshine from here for Arch github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases/tag/v0.23.1 that will allow you to use the deck as the host

[@israelrieck6255]

@@SantiagoSantiago thanks you Very much

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Yessir, go to the discover store, get sunshine and set it up like at the start of the video, you should be good

[@animefreak2910]

Can I use it while my monitor is turned off

[@LinaaaOfficial]

yes

[@JURO768KUJO]

Does it have an impact on the performances ? ​@@LinaaaOfficial

[@HereDirtyDuck]

Is this better than steam remote play?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

In my opinion it's better than Steam's, both quality and latency

[@Gaming.on.android]

@@SantiagoSantiago ofc im test for 2 months and is the best, in and out

[@limpa756]

yea but the steam community templates don't work, like the main selling point of the deck ffs

[@pkpkpkok]

sd lcd is not good for moonlight?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

It's completely fine, I'm using a Deck LCD in this video

[@djflakoelmonstruo9908]

Can this be done from a cellphone

[@electroelysium2281]

There is an Android port of Moonlight, yes. And I'm pretty sure that it's on iOS as well

[@lironk1]

So basically you need your main pc to be turned on in order to play non steam games ?

[@NAME-2505]

Can i use on the Phone?

[@SantiagoSantiago]

Yes, same method on host PC, but download moonlight from any of the app stores, I recommend connecting a bluetooth gamepad, touch controls suck 😂

[@NAME-2505]

@@SantiagoSantiago yup i agree finaly can play pc on the phone to use 4080 better ahahah and thanks.

[@NAME-2505]

@@SantiagoSantiago my phone its oled and 120hz so i think its going to be good

[@pablod23]

1 gb of bandwith… steam deck don’t working good with moonlight he says down bitrate i have 25 mbs choosen! With steam link… zero problems! And super high bitrate! Steam deck its very sad..

[@Khumon_Matitz]

Typical PC gaming nonsense, way way way too much effort. Who the f*** wants to mess around with all those settings? At least streaming from Gamepass is just a click of a button.