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Anyone tried cloud gaming? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 10 months ago by wesker to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm extremely interested in the prospect of self-hosted cloud gaming. Has anyone had any success with any specific platforms, such as Sunshine + Moonlight? Any ins/outs to the necessary software or hardware?

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They don't do the same thing: Sunshine is intended to stream a single physical desktop.

Games on Whales runs headlessly and creates virtual desktops for each session in a Docker environment.

For example, you can create an instance that runs at 800p so you can stream to your Steam Deck at its native resolution. You can even still use your desktop normally since the streams run in the background.

Both of them support connection via Moonlight.

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks. I might try it because I stream to either my phone or my tablet depending on the game, and they have different resolutions.

[–] wesker 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm very interested in Games on Whales. Are there any hardware implications with this approach? IE, does it perform better with consumer or pro Nvidia GPUs? I assume decause it's using Docker, the more RAM the better.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 points 10 months ago

I'm running this on a 7900 XTX with 32GB RAM. No issues so far. According to their instructions, Nvidia is a little bit more involved but it should perform the same on consumer or pro GPUs.

I assume decause it’s using Docker, the more RAM the better.

Docker has pretty much no overhead, so you only need enough RAM to run the games/sessions you want to run in addition to your regular desktop.