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Streaming games using Sunshine (the gamestream implementation) now works a lot better on nVidia/wayland (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, yes, I know, buy AMD, but I already have nVvdia to use CUDA, but this new patch on the nightly branch (on arch, you can use sunshine-git but with my patch here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sunshine-git) finally makes it so that I don't have to "dual boot" into X11 to get game streaming at full performance.

Prior to this, wayland-based streamers had to make a round-trip through CPU ram, and now it stays within GPU ram and thus we can stream 4k on nvidia/Wayland!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sunshine should be seamless?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

IDK, I can't thank them enough for what they have done already. I'm just wishing it would be easier so it would be come more widely adopted.

I mean:

Why doesn't every open source game launcher include it?
Why distros don't adopt this 1st class remote desktop tech?
Why most users don't know it even exists?
Why hasn't AMD baked it in their Windows drivers?
Why hasn't it been included along the MESA drivers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i dunno if they could implement a reimplementation of nvidias protocol on the amd driver bundle on windows. i mean legally, could this have issues?

and mesa is not for streaming software, its for drivers and sunshine is not a driver

its already on flatpak, so on most distros repos by default

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Having to install the software is kinda the lowest common denominator in desktop computing, I think bundling it with things would be silly

Edit: you mentioned you used arch. Sunshine is a mainline arch package, so you just install it and then start the systemd service. Can’t imagine it being much easier than that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I did just that. Doesn't work. IDK why.