[SpecialistK]

Since this doesn't take over the desktop (per the FAQ) this sounds amazing for headless machines.

Shame it needs such a modern GPU and $feature which isn't offered by my preferred Alpine Linux. But that shouldn't detract from what it's promising.

[Grombobulous]

That's not too bad, being able to go all the way back to an RTX20XX or RX 6000 series is pretty old for the kind of person looking to stream some games.

If you go back much further your client device might just have enough horsepower to run the game you're trying to play without streaming at all!

[ZekeSulastin]

As an added point of reference, Turing released in late 2018 and RDNA2 released in late 2020.

I Googled a little to see if the GTX 1660/Ti supported Vulkan Video and found this page from Nvidia[1] that says Pascal or later, so I wonder what the blocker is in this program.

1: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan/video/get-started

[Gigachad]

I've been streaming from an RX5700 XT which is something like 20x more powerful than my steam deck I'm trying to stream to.

[Grombobulous]

20x is a huge exaggeration. It’s more like 5x in hypothetical flops.

For example, in Elden Ring an optimized 800p with mixed low to medium settings will hit 45 FPS.

On a 5700XT you’re looking at the high 90fps range for 1080p medium settings.

So it’s really in all practical purposes 2-3 times better and your steam deck has a maximum refresh rate of 90Hz anyway. On a screen that size you’ll barely see the difference between medium and ultra settings.

Something notable is that because of how math maths, 45FPS is a LOT better looking than 30FPS.

Finally, I’ll point out that anyone with hardware this old still has the option of using normal sunshine. Or you can just get a 6000 series card, the difference in cost between a 6600XT and a 5700XT is less than $50.

[Gigachad]

Running Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on the deck gets around 30-45 fps with some lag spikes on low settings. Streaming from my 5700xt I can get 90fps ultra. It's massively better to stream from even this old GPU than to play locally.

[Grombobulous]

I agree with you, but that’s not 20x.

[duskdozer]

Using moonshine? As in what they list isn't a hard requirement just possibly the oldest they cared to test?