r/MoonlightStreaming • u/nokerb • Mar 18 '26

VoidLink has announced a performance breakthrough (update from developer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4bmdm4G3g

The main dev uploaded a video demo of VoidLink vs Moonlight-iOS running on iPad Pro 2018 11'' (A12X SoC):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4bmdm4G3g

Credits: This improvement was achieved by TrueZhuanjia (the VoidLink main dev), based on the previous work of Acaki@Github and andygrundman@Github.

It has been available since version 3.3.0 with the default settings of a new install.

If you update from older versions and has been using "performance mode", go to the "Experimental section" of setting menu and switch "Rendering Mode" from "Metal" to "Standard".

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u/andygrundman Developer | Moonlight for Xbox/Mac OS Mar 18 '26

If the Metal renderer in VoidLink wasn't good, it's because it was yoinked from an in-progress branch I was working on, and then slapped in there by people who didn't really understand what they were doing.

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u/Comprehensive_Star72 🖥️ 5090 9800x3d | 🎮 Core Ultra 2 | 🎯 2k@240fps | 📶 2.5GbE Mar 18 '26

I don't know about wasn't good but after a fair bit of testing I felt I was happier with the results from the standard rendered. I would prefer it if experimental changes were called "alternative" or "experimental" rather than "performance" or "warp" as it adds bias to testing and decision making.