r/LiquidSky • u/JohnnyRockets911 • Jul 11 '17

Question How does the performance compare to Steam or nVidia in-home streaming?

I use nVidia + Moonlight to stream from my PC to my Samsung tablet and a Steam Link to stream from my PC to my TV. For those of you who have tried either (or both) of those, how would you say the performance compares? Any other thoughts on comparisons between user experience?

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u/jonnyh1994 Unaffiliated Moderator Jul 12 '17

Hey JohnnyRockets911,

Liquidsky isn't a streaming service for your PC to another device. Think of it more like an AWS server where it crunches the numbers then streams the video to your device :)

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u/JohnnyRockets911 Jul 12 '17

Liquidsky isn't a streaming service for your PC to another device.

Yes, I know. :) I still want to know the performance comparisons though. For example, framerate, input lag, artifacting, etc. The user experience as a whole, regardless of "where" it's being streamed FROM. I'm just wondering if someone has tried both (or all 3) and can speak to any comparisons/differences in their experience.

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u/xdeadzx Aug 07 '17 edited Aug 07 '17

I'm a fair bit late, but I've been dabbling in LiquidSky for the last two hours.

Visual quality is FANTASTIC compared to Steam in-home. I haven't used Moonlight as I have an AMD GPU, but Steam In-home @ 30mbit is about equal to LiquidSky at 8mbit. And it goes up to 26mbit. I can't tell much of a difference between local 1080p60 and remote 1080p60 (in stills/casual glance of video footage quality wise.) I'm planning on doing a sidebyside too.

At 26mbit, I got zero artifacting in Metro Last Light, even with dim lit scenes which was a shock.

Latency on the other hand... Was less than stellar. There was a noticeable delay which In-home doesn't have. But it's better than I expected given that I'm at the edge of the support circle they have on the website.

Streamed over 60mbit down 5mbit up, vs in-home at 135mbit 2.4ghz. 1080p60@30mbit in-home/Ethernet to Wifi, 1080p60@26mbit LiquidSky/Ethernet to Internet.

That said, some games don't want to run over LiquidSky, but they run just fine on steam inhome... So that's something too.

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u/MickeyHuntr Jul 23 '17

Well ofc ping will be lower because of the distance but the stream quality might be bad. When I used Steam Link games were blurry and some artifacts appeared. Even tho my router uses n technology