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My old PC is hooked up in our family room for gaming on the Big Screen. I tried to buy a Steam Machine just to make that process more seemless. Am I annoyed that I have an 800 game library and have been snubbed twice (first the controlled and now the machine)? Yes, but is probably a blessing though. Fingers crossed that the 2nd gen machine that we will see in a 1-2 years will be better and the same price or cheaper.
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If you have a modern TV is there a reason you haven't just loaded Moonlight on it so you can just remote play from your gaming PC?
 
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Lenas said:
If you have a modern TV is there a reason you haven't just loaded Moonlight on it so you can just remote play from your gaming PC?
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Gaming on the big screen typically means family gaming, I have have found remote gaming with multiple controllers is a cluster fuck. I have a 55" Odessey Arc in my office, so gaming solo already feels like a big screen experience. I also have a recliner in my office that I can slide over if I really feel like poop-socking.

I fully realize my gaming problems are 1st world gluttoneous american problems :D
 
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Im not even joking. 1k for them to play my giant library. They don't even know games look better. They have a switch
 
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I have two kids who have friends. And even split screen Minecraft on the ps5 is awesome for them.

More than half the shit that offers local multiplayer on a ps5 or switch do not on PC.
 
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Lenas said:
If you have a modern TV is there a reason you haven't just loaded Moonlight on it so you can just remote play from your gaming PC?
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Talk to me about Moonlight. I decided to try and use that instead of spending a grand on a Steam machine. I have Moonlight connected, and everything is up and running, but I am getting stuttering. My wifi is 100mbps, but is that the problem? Do I need to run Ethernet to my pc? I tried capping a game at 59fps and have Moonlight at 60fps since I heard that helps, but no dice.

Sorry to derail this thread
 
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Talk to me about Moonlight. I decided to try and use that instead of spending a grand on a Steam machine. I have Moonlight connected, and everything is up and running, but I am getting stuttering. My wifi is 100mbps, but is that the problem? Do I need to run Ethernet to my pc? I tried capping a game at 59fps and have Moonlight at 60fps since I heard that helps, but no dice.

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Ethernet is ideal. There are diagnostic options within Moonlight settings that will show your wifi connection quality, packet loss, jitter etc though. Stuttering could be related to your bitrate or encoding options as well.

 
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Lenas said:
Ethernet is ideal. There are diagnostic options within Moonlight settings that will show your wifi connection quality, packet loss, jitter etc though. Stuttering could be related to your bitrate or encoding options as well.

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This is awesome, thank you. I got things a bit more stable running a low demand indi game for testing . My hardware decoder was set to auto. I I left it at that. There were only 2 options both webos xxx.

Network rtt is 5ms, host processing latency 1ms, and decoder latency is 13ms. I assume the decoder lag is still what’s causing any issues.
 
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