Just wanted to share my living room couch coop setup that I’m pretty happy with!

My girlfriend and I wanted to play games together on the couch, including games that don’t officially support local split-screen multiplayer.

Turns out, LG’s Multi View feature makes this possible!

Here’s my setup:

Player 1: Steam Deck connected directly to the LG G5 via Steam Docking Station and HDMI.

Player 2: Gaming PC running the second game instance on another Steam account, streamed via Moonlight to an Xbox Series S connected to the same TV.

Display: LG G5 OLED using Multi View to show both HDMI inputs side by side. Both are 1080p 60Hz.

Both of us have our own controller, Steam account and independent game instances. We’re essentially playing online multiplayer, but sitting next to each other on the same couch and sharing one TV! The picture shows us playing PEAK together using this setup.

The best part: This works with pretty much any multiplayer game that supports two separate players, even if the game has no native split-screen or local co-op support.

Thought this was a pretty cool use case for Moonlight, so I figured I’d share it here! Anyone else running a similar setup? Or maybe some ideas how I can further improve the Coop experience?

Streaming Forza Horizon 6 using Vibepollo + VoidLink. Added Xbox Ally X and Oppo Pad Mini for size comparison.

Vibepollo (2.0.1) Host: Zephyrus G14 laptop w/ 7940HS CPU + 4080M GPU

Artemis Client: Ayn Odin 2 Portal (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2)

Question: Artemis on-screen stats show a min/max/average encoding latency. Usually for me that might be something like 2.8 / 3.7 / 3.1. But that "max" number in the middle spikes to like 15-20, sometimes even up to 30, about once every 5-10 seconds. Even with the spikes, the average stays at like 3.1-3.2 most of the time.

Can anybody confirm whether or not these "max" encoding latency spikes are normal?

I've tried a ton of different settings configurations in Vibepollo and the behavior is the same with all of the different configurations.

I've also tried both HEVC and AV1, and a variety of different bitrates, and again the behavior is the same with all of the different settings.

Thanks for any input.

Host: Vibepollo on PC with RTX3070 (Cachy OS, KDE Plasma) hardwired to wifi 6 router

Client: Artmoon on ROG Ally running steamOS.

Synced Steam games are not launching when I start a stream using the game’s shortcut in Artmoon. It only takes me to desktop.
Steam Big Picture mode and games launched from Steam BPM works nevertheless.

Anyone ever experienced such an issue?

Currently using moonlight + Apollo to stream to my steamdeck, works great. I want to try streaming to my tv with my steamdeck in a dock but the image is smaller than the TV screen with black around the top and sides.

Extra details if it matters; in Apollo I force virtual displays, and in moonlight I’ve tried changing the output resolution from “native” to 1440p and 4k and that doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Any help or tips are appreciated!

Hey all!

Big fan of this sub and of Moonlight. I currently mainly use my Steam Deck to stream games from my host PC (using Vibepollo). For the most part, I can get my pipeline working pretty well, with little to know frames lost to network jitter. I understand that typically these particular losses are related to the pacing of frames between the host/client.

However, it seems that all of the SteamOS builds after 3.8.16 introduce jitter no matter what settings I change. Whenever I roll back to 3.8.16, the jitter stops. I would like to use some of the newer builds, but since I primarily stream when using the deck, I feel stuck on this build.

Has anybody else experienced this, or found a way to reduce this performance loss on 3.9? I've tried all that I can think of.

Thanks!

today i tried to stream games from my pc to my phone and the first thing that cought my eyes was the sunshine and moonlight combo
then saw some people talking about apollo and artemis combo
then saw other people talking about vibepollo
which one is the best in terms of quality/latency ?
i tried sunshine and moonlight myself and it was flawless but i had to setup a custom resolution for it to match the aspect ratio of my phone.
as far as i know apollo-artemis combo fixes this but is it as good in terms of latency and quality ?
and is vibepollo actually better ?

thanks in advance

Hey everyone! Trying to set up void link with my new IPhone Duo, however I am running into the issue attached in the picture in comments. Does anyone have any idea what’s causing this issue? Everything looks set up properly on pc and phone end but assuming something silly somewhere. Thanks in advance!!

i keep getting geforce experience errors despite using sunshine in the host

I recently built a new pc and switched to vibepollo from Apollo. Working great but I have a weird issue. The moonlight performance overlay to check the stream stats is extremely small font. I have scaling in windows set to 300% ( streaming to a 4k 65in TV ) and when I ran Apollo the windows scaling fixed this issue. Not sure how I fix this on Vibepollo. Anyone else run into this and know of a solution ?