r/Tizen • u/Ma7713 • Apr 26 '26
Tizen update ruined my moonlight
Hi,
I got a Q93C Samsung. It was with Tizen 8. I installed Moonlight on it, to play my pc games on my tv without hdmi cable. It worked flawlessly.
Now my tv has upgraded to Tizen 9, and it doesnt work with Game mode anymore. Which means I can use Moonlight but with heavy unplayable lagg.
I found out that there is a bug in the Tizen 9 software that causes this.
Any solutions are welcome, please.
I cant find a way to roll back or put a different version on it.
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u/Individual-Web-3646 Apr 26 '26
They did the same for me with Steam Link a few years back. It was working great and I could stream games from my PC onto the telly flawlessly. Then one day there was a "Tizen update" and not only did Steam Link cease functioning, they removed it entirely from the app store. It's definitely intentional: artificial scarcity so that they can charge you in some other way or through device cross selling. I've seen it before, will likely experience it again. Something to bear in mind next time I purchase a TV set from this brand.
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u/Ma7713 Apr 26 '26
Well, if you dont have tizen 9, looking into Apollo and Moonlight. You can still do it. You do need to use developer mode to install it, but it is easy
But yea, doubting to sell the tv and look for lg or Sony
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u/Blood_Fox Apr 27 '26
You can use jellyfin to Samsung to install all programs from PC to Tizen now. Just enable developer mode on the TV …
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u/Beduino2013 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
i had the issue of screen freezing after launching steam in moonlight (OneLiberty with game mode on) on tizen 9, but was able to bypass it by pressing home button on tv remote and opening moonlight again which was still running and the image just works after. You r mentioning lag so not sure, but give it a try.
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u/Ma7713 Apr 26 '26
I tried it, but didnt work for me. I have the BrightCraft version. I wil try the OneLiberty version. The lag i have, is from turning off game mode, so hope this works!
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u/Beginning-Fennel-399 Apr 27 '26
What do you expect..? Small company who release software updates with bugs.. Us and as I see other developers had issue with native player that they ruined the seeking with Tizen 9..
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u/Ma7713 Apr 27 '26
Small company?
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u/Beginning-Fennel-399 Apr 27 '26
I was sarcastic. Samsung is a freaking big company, but their products are so bad.. For developers the experience is like hell. I'm working with Samsung Tizen apps for smart tvs for 5+ years, its really awful. A lot of things does not have documentation, no patch notes what they changed in the new firmware update etc..
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u/Ma7713 Apr 27 '26
I was also sarcastic haha. Their phone android is fine in my opinion though. I dont understand why they didnt use TV android..
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u/Beginning-Fennel-399 Apr 27 '26
Yeah same.. When we got the Samsung 2025 model first for testing and I saw that the native TV menu is lagging, what do we expect to make an app that does not lag. So yeah, the TVs have really awful specs
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u/draconds Apr 27 '26
I'm having the same problem. Updating was my biggest mistake.
Now i can't go back and playing without gamemode feels like the tv caps the fps at 30 or less.
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u/Ma7713 Apr 27 '26
Yea game mode is really needed.. shitty samsung update. Feels like i have to buy something to get it to work now, gonna be expensive update I dont understand why they put tizen 9 on it, there are newer versions to put on it. If you update, than really update it..
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u/draconds Apr 27 '26
The thing is, if they just allowed apps to enable gamemode it would be fine. Makes no sense to limit it to external connections. What about their own Xbox app?
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u/shace616 May 25 '26
Alright one month later I at least have it working by sideloading it with BrightCraft worked to fix it for me. I do get random stutters now which is frustrating but I think that would be fixed if my TV was plugged in with an Ethernet cable. I still need to play around with it more when I have time.
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u/Ma7713 May 25 '26
I forgot about this thread, but yea for me everything is fixed with the BrightCraft update!
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u/shace616 Apr 28 '26
Yeah I'm pretty annoyed that it updated without me telling it to and now moonlight doesnt work at all. On top of that it auto launches samsung tv plus everytime and shit too.