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I would recommend using moonlight and sunshine. The steam streaming is pretty good but moonlight is better
Yeah, I'll second this.
I had loads of issues trying to get my controllers working with the Steam Link app, but with Moonlight and Sunshine they worked straight away.
Just be aware that whichever way you do it, your laptop will need to be unlocked, and the game plays on it as if you were sat in front of it, including the sound coming through the speakers. There may be a way to mute the laptop speakers, but I'm not near my computer to check.
I think there's an option to enable/disable sound on the host computer somewhere in the streaming settings.
Moonlight works on the nvidia shield?
Yes. Nvidia shield runs Android. Moonlight runs on all desktop OSes, plus iOS and Android and a few smart TVs
I just have to ask what sunshine is? Tried reading the docs but I don't get it - is it used instead of the nvidia driver thing that you usually connect to moonlight? And if it is is there a benefit except the obvious privacy part?
Yes exactly, its a open source server for the moonlight client. It's less polished then the nvidia drivers, but nvidia announced the end of their support for the protocol, so its only a matter of time until the nvidia driver server is removed from the drivers. Then you either can't upgrade your drivers, or use moonlight.
So the open source sunshine is the future for the host side. Plus it works on multiple platforms and supports AMD
I'm gonna get it and try it out on my setup. Thanks!