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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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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

What would you suggest for checking the network?

Well, on the Linux side, something like bwm-ng will tell you the total throughput through an interface, and if you can transfer a file across the two, you can probably get a feel for how much bandwidth is practically available to do.

If you've been able to move that much over the network before, though, that's a fair argument that that's not the cause.