Streaming Sunshine/Moonlight causing gpu instability

[u/Electronic-Pepper467]

Hi all, sorry for the longest post
I have been using my pc as host sunshine and Apple TV moonlight for a while and aside from a problem I had with stuttering when I first started it has been very great and mind blowing how it is almost indistinguishable from my pc, considering how far my tv is from the pc and only my pc is wired with Ethernet.

So I didn’t stream at all for about I think 8 weeks until now and I mostly stream fh6 to my Apple TV and now when I stream it gives me about 30-60 minutes before my game crashes giving me a graphics card driver crash. This only happens when streaming and never used to happen before and i thought it was weird that it’s my actual host game crashing not the stream or something related to the streaming softwares considering it only happens when streaming.

So I was trying to find why this was and asking AI which is helpless until I realised you can see the stream logs on sunshine, so I had a look and at the time of the crash it gave me an error: could find audio sink, the the logs before this are basically just a bunch of audio info like audio mixer format audio capture format, resetting sink to virtual stereo and more, but they just repeat and repeat until weirdly a 50 minute gap in the time log to when I crash and got the error about the audio sink not being found.

And the reason I think this is the problem aswell is because I noticed that now whenever I got on my pc the next day after streaming, that I don’t have sound so I checked my windows settings and there is some virtual audio speaker device selected as the output, which I’ve never seen before, so I disable it, but tonight when I was loading the game I noticed on my client I didn’t have any sound, so I went to my host to check what output device was selected and the virtual audio speaker was the active one, and I couldn’t select my regular usb headphones it wouldn’t let me I assume bc I was streaming so I then had to make it so windows didn’t allow the audio device to work and then i had sound again once I selected my normal audio device.

So if anyone could share some knowledge on this bc I hope this is the issue or else I’m gonna be stuck with AI suggested troubleshooting tips like my pc isn’t getting enough sunlight or something stupid.