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Question on PC streaming to various handhelds via Sunshine?

Dorfdad

Gold Member
GAF IN HOME STREAMERS,

So I rebuilt my gaming pc over the holidays and I installed Sunshine on it. My setup consists of the PC and two monitors. My primary monitor is 4k on the 4090 and my seoncdary monitor is 1080p plugged into the motherboards AMD HDMI port.

So when using any handled I can stream games fine to the devices, but I have to have my monitors on for this to work. If I turn off my monitors I can't connect 80% of the time and when I can I just get a blank screen.
What am I doing wrong as I can't imagine you need to have your main monitor on 24/7 along with the PC to stream from it with moonlight do you!??
 

jmiller180

Neo Member
You need an HDMI dummy plug or VirtualDisplayDriver. I prefer the dummy plug with actual monitors off as I inevitably run into issues with the virtual display setting itself to the primary monitor when it shouldn’t.
 
why the fuck did you connect a screen to the gpu and another one to the mb? either connect both to the gpu or leave one out, you're only supposed to use the onboard display if you need to debug something on the gpu or the main gpu is fried.

moonlight/sunshing works flawlessly, just make sure you connect the desktop via ethernet though, wifi works too, but it's just more reliable like that
 

Dorfdad

Gold Member
why the fuck did you connect a screen to the gpu and another one to the mb? either connect both to the gpu or leave one out, you're only supposed to use the onboard display if you need to debug something on the gpu or the main gpu is fried.

moonlight/sunshing works flawlessly, just make sure you connect the desktop via ethernet though, wifi works too, but it's just more reliable like that
I use the 1080p for streaming. I know that it uses more resources from the PC but I got 64GB and I want all the horsepower of the GPU to power the games and not interfere with streaming windows etc. That's my thought behind it
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
so with this, do you just "mirror" the display to the dummy? What's the setup?
This just makes your computer believe that your monitor is awake when it’s actually asleep. So your computer stays on and thinks it’s displaying on a monitor, but your actual monitor can go to sleep normally.

It’s designed to precisely fix your exact problem.
 

Dorfdad

Gold Member
This just makes your computer believe that your monitor is awake when it’s actually asleep. So your computer stays on and thinks it’s displaying on a monitor, but your actual monitor can go to sleep normally.

It’s designed to precisely fix your exact problem.
OK great ordered one. So what do I need to do with my pc setting anything? or just plug it in and forget it?
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
OK great ordered one. So what do I need to do with my pc setting anything? or just plug it in and forget it?
As far as I know, yeah. I’ve never used one myself, but I looked up the info before I posted here.

Note that this will likely prevent your computer from automatically going to sleep based on your monitor state, if that’s something you relied on.
 

analog_future

Resident Crybaby
The best answer to this is to use a Sunshine fork called Apollo.

It automatically creates a virtual display that matches the resolution/refresh rate of whatever streaming device you’re using, and then deletes it when you end your session.

Super easy, works very reliably, and you never have to have your screen on when streaming.
 
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TrebleShot

Member
The best answer to this is to use a Sunshine fork called Apollo.

It automatically creates a virtual display that matches the resolution/refresh rate of whatever streaming device you’re using, and then deletes it when you end your session.

Super easy, works very reliably, and you never have to have your screen on when streaming.
I use this too only issue I've had so far is it seems to open games on one of my physical monitors. Very annoying.
 
I use the 1080p for streaming. I know that it uses more resources from the PC but I got 64GB and I want all the horsepower of the GPU to power the games and not interfere with streaming windows etc. That's my thought behind it
I still don't get why it's connected to the motherboard. I might need a picture to even understand what the issue is.

Normally with sunshine and moonlight you just install it and connect via the network. Example, stream directly to a low powered laptop or steam deck under the same network, while using your 4090 PC to actually run the game. Sounds like you're still somehow connecting to a monitor plugged to the same PC, if so, what's the point of sunshine?

I'd love to help here, but the use case does not make sense.
 
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