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Wayland and Sunshine (Streaming Games) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Howdy,

I've been trying to get sunshine setup on my arch (btw) install and things aren't going the smoothest. My PC has a 4080 and is hardwired to my wifi 7 router and the device I'm streaming to is an AYN Thor. All of those should be relatively beefy devices so there shouldn't be any bottlenecks there. When I begin streaming a game however, my Thor displays my incoming framerate from the network as, at most, ~30ish FPS. This is despite the fact I can see the game running on my PC at 120+ FPS. Doing some googling it looks like the most likely culprit is just Wayland's compositor, I guess? It was suggested to try in x11, but Jesus I would hate having to log out of my Wayland instance and into x11 just to stream games.

Anyone stream games on their Linux install? Can anyone think of anything else I can try to increase the framerate? Would really like for this just to work and not need to have a whole process to stream something basic like Xcom or something. Thanks for your guys' insight!

EDIT: Following in this guy's footsteps, uninstalling the AUR's sunshine and instead using the latest build from GitHub seems to have fixed the issue.

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[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I run Sunshine on Arch-KDE-Wayland with a 4070Ti and stream at 1440 to another PC running the same thing. I haven't checked frame rates in a while but it seems to be running fine for me.

Does the Thor run Linux with the standard Moonlight client? If you haven't looked yet, double check Moonlight's settings and make sure the frame rate, resolution, and other settings look ok.

If you're streaming a Steam game, also make sure Steam doesn't have it's recording enabled. I think Valve enabled it by default some time ago and that tanked my frame rate at the time. There's a "Game Recording" section in Steam's settings where you can turn it off.

Sunshine also has logs in the Troubleshooting section on its web client. Maybe see if there's anything fishy in there too.

[–] YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Glad to hear that it should work, gives me some hope at least. The Thor is an android based handheld but yeah it should support higher framerates easy. Double checked all settings so it should just work. What I didn't try is turning off game recording, will give that a go. Thanks!