![]() Past mid-February, the status of the hosting GeForce Experience is unclear. We may update this if new information arrives. What will happen to Moonlight in mid-February? NOTE: The following is educated speculation based on our experience with GeForce Experience updates. It's not at performance parity with GeForce Experience yet, but we hope that we can close the performance gap and improve ease of use by the time that support for GameStream in GeForce Experience is dropped.īy investing our time in making Sunshine a top-tier game streaming host, we can ensure that the whims of a single company cannot unilaterally impact the game streaming community again. In addition to NVIDIA GPUs on Windows, Sunshine supports hosting on AMD and Intel GPUs and on macOS and Linux. Inline with our long-term goal of providing an excellent open-source game streaming solution, we will increase our efforts to improve the Sunshine project, which acts as an a free open-source host for Moonlight. Moonlight will continue to be usable with host PCs running the latest version of GeForce Experience until at least mid-Feburary, according to NVIDIA's announcement. What does this mean for Moonlight?In the short term, nothing. If/when NVIDIA removes the GameStream functionality from GeForce Experience, Moonlight will no longer be able to connect to it for streaming. For this reason, we believe that NVIDIA will fully remove GameStream support in a future update to GeForce Experience. While NVIDIA's announcement is primarily centered around the removal of GameStream support from their official NVIDIA Games client, it's highly unlikely that they would continue to invest maintenance resources in the host software when no official clients exist. NVIDIA has recently announced that they will no longer be supporting the GameStream feature. The host software that Moonlight connects to is part of NVIDIA GeForce Experience, so it is under NVIDIA's control and depends on their ongoing effort to fix bugs and implement new host-side features. Why does NVIDIA's announcement impact Moonlight?The Moonlight project implements unofficial open-source clients for NVIDIA GameStream. AMD Link is a free app for Apple's tvOS and Google's Android TV.This FAQ page covers frequently asked questions about NVIDIA's GameStream End of Service Notification. Steam Link was launched on Android TV in May 2018 and on Apple TV in May 2019 after having been delayed for more than a year due to Apple rejecting the original version. Valve's Steam Link on the other hand works regardless of your graphics card vendor. Like Nvidia's system is reserved for Nvidia cards, AMD Link works only with AMD graphics cards in PC. Both platforms support Bluetooth game controllers and later this year, starting with tvOS 13, Apple TV will also support the Sony DualShock 4 and Xbox Wireless controller. To play PC games on your Apple TV or Android TV you must also connect a game controller. Streaming at 4K requires 4K capable streaming hardware and is compatible with: AMD Radeon GCN-based discrete graphics and newer," the company said. "For TV support, Apple TV 4th and 5th generation running tvOS 12.x and greater, or Android TV 5.1 and greater are required. ![]() To get started you also need a AMD Radeon graphics card and version 19.7.1 of AMD's graphics software on your PC. AMD has now released updated apps for Apple TV and Android TV. The systems allow you to stream games from your PC to another screen over the home network. ![]() AMD Link game streamingNvidia has GameStream, Valve has Steam Link, and AMD has AMD Link. The system has been updated with support for Apple TV and Android TV. Like Steam Link, AMD Link enables PC users to stream games to other devices. ![]()
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