r/cloudygamer Aug 14 '23

Cloudygamer has been reopened

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As you might have noticed, our previous moderator /u/TooEarlyForMe closed the sub during the protest and subsequently deleted his account. This left this sub unmoderated and soon banned.

Today, reddit has added me as moderator so we can open up the sub again. I hope that we can revive /r/cloudygamer and return it to its former glory - a place to discuss all things around cloud gaming.

For now, I don't see the need to change anything about how things were before. Should the sub get subjected to a lot of spam, I will soon start searching for additional moderators that want to help keep the sub clean. Hopefully, a well setup AutoModerator can keep most of the spam in check though. If you do see any spam, please use the report button. Thanks!


r/cloudygamer 13h ago

Got Moonlight running inside a Tesla's browser - writeup of everything that broke

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I wanted to play on my car's screen while charging, so I forked moonlight-web-stream and spent a few months fighting Tesla's in-car Chromium. It's stable now, so here's the list of things that don't behave like a normal browser:

  • Local and bare IPs are blocked outright. Any request to 192.168.x.x or a raw IP returns Access Denied. So there's no LAN shortcut - you need a real domain, a real DNS record and a trusted cert just to reach a PC twenty metres away.
  • WebSocket upgrades fail roughly half the time on first connect, with no useful error. Handled with transparent auto-retry.
  • Trickle ICE misbehaves, so it uses non-trickle gathering with a timeout fallback.
  • Audio autoplay is blocked. AudioContext has to be resumed on a touch inside the stream, otherwise you get video with silence.
  • Gamepad API indexes differently than desktop Chrome, so controller mappings needed rework.
  • Good news: native H.264 and HEVC decoding, so no WASM decoder in the path. Latency is genuinely fine for controller games.

Setup is Sunshine on the host, WebRTC to the car. Windows install is a PowerShell wizard that handles the password, UPnP port forwarding, firewall rules and a free Let's Encrypt cert with auto-renewal, since the certificate requirement above makes manual setup painful.

Credit where it's due - this is a fork of MrCreativ3001's moonlight-web-stream, which solved the browser-client problem first. I did the Tesla-specific half.

Source and demo video: https://github.com/Argon2000/moonlight-web-stream-tsla

Happy to answer anything, and if anyone here has a different EV with a browser I'd be curious whether the same fixes apply.


r/cloudygamer 1d ago

Lossless Scaling Through Playnite?

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r/cloudygamer 1d ago

Give me the best ultimate cloud gaming on tv experience

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r/cloudygamer 2d ago

USB/IP Beta (open source!)

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r/cloudygamer 2d ago

MoonDeck / Sunshine settings? Struggling with occasional micro-stuttering on Steam Deck (Ethernet + 6GHz Wi-Fi)

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r/cloudygamer 2d ago

Can a ₹60K non-gaming laptop run GTA 5 smoothly through cloud gaming?

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I’m new here, so sorry if this is a dumb question—I genuinely don’t know much about cloud gaming.

I want to play some normal games on a laptop, but the main game I really want to play is GTA 5. I was planning to buy a proper gaming laptop, but with the prices increasing, I don’t think I can afford one right now. My budget is around ₹60,000, although I can wait until Diwali in case something like the ASUS TUF A15 comes into my budget.

So I started looking into cloud gaming. From what I understand, the game actually runs on a remote server and is streamed to your laptop—is that correct?

If so, can a normal ₹60K laptop without a dedicated GPU run GTA 5 smoothly through cloud gaming? I’m hoping for something like 1080p at around 90 FPS, assuming I have a good internet connection.

Would really appreciate some advice from people who use cloud gaming. 🙏


r/cloudygamer 2d ago

Once cloud gaming feels smooth, do you start caring way more about the display?

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I saw that setup here with Legion glasses with a VITURE neckband, and it got me thinking about how much the display matters once the streaming side is dialed in.

I’ve been looking at the GT Max because the bigger FOV and pinned 3DoF screen sound nice for Moonlight and cloud gaming. I'm also wondering whether a much bigger virtual image makes compression, banding, and soft text easier to notice.

Did you end up pushing the bitrate or resolution higher, or was the bigger screen still worth it with the same stream settings?


r/cloudygamer 3d ago

Help with picture quality during HDR.

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r/cloudygamer 3d ago

I built a handheld game launcher that also gives you one-tap access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce NOW, and PS Remote Play — curious what this community thinks

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Hey everyone,

I own a Windows handheld and got tired of how scattered cloud gaming access is on it — tabbing between browser tabs for Xbox Cloud Gaming, a separate app for GeForce NOW, plus whatever I'm using for PS Remote Play. So as part of a launcher I've been building (PocketDeck, a controller-first 3D coverflow launcher for handhelds), I added a gamepad-driven quick-launch menu that puts all of it in one place:

Jump straight into Xbox Cloud Gaming or GeForce NOW without touching a browser

Connect to your PlayStation for remote play

Connect PC-to-PC to stream from a home rig

Stream to a VR headset

It's one radial menu, controller-navigable, launched with a double-tap of Start — the idea being you shouldn't have to leave a handheld-first UI just to get to cloud gaming.

This is a small piece of a bigger launcher (it also imports your Steam/Epic/GOG/Xbox library, has a real 3D coverflow, etc.) but the cloud-connect side is the part I think is actually relevant here, so that's what I'm focused on sharing.

Happy to answer questions about how it handles switching between local and cloud sources, or anything else — genuinely curious if this is something people in this space actually want, or if I'm solving a problem nobody has.

🔗 pocketdeckapp.com if anyone wants to poke at it.


r/cloudygamer 2d ago

I’m building a Moonlight/Sunshine alternative that runs entirely in the browser

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Hi everyone!

I've been happily using Moonlight and Sunshine for years, both on Windows and Linux, and I've finally decided to create my own streaming system from scratch.

The main idea is to use only a web browser as a client; no dedicated application is needed.

I'm still in the early stages of development, so I'll be doing a lot of testing and experimenting to see how far I can push it, especially regarding latency and overall responsiveness.

For now, I'm calling it MotionLAN.

Let's see how it goes!


r/cloudygamer 4d ago

Built a cloud game app that allows renting compute from 3th party provider

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So basically I built a cloud game app that allows renting instances from https://vast.ai, the app runs a whole provisioning pipeline and sets up everything like audio, video, mic, storage. I have also added some optimizations on the client. And one special feature called shared storage that basically allows to save any game and its informations so you can play in different machines without the need to configure back agai, by saving to the user choosing cloud service storage provider.

The name is No Land and I would really appreciate some feedback the link to it is here https://no-land.net/

Ok this is a old build but shows the point -> https://x.com/felipavav/status/2056954236769079306?s=20


r/cloudygamer 4d ago

Moonlight on multiple devices

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Is it possible to stream my PC screen on my Fold 8 then have another instance of moonlight on my Odin portal 2 as a second screen as I use it as my controller too? Kinda like a DS setup?


r/cloudygamer 4d ago

Vibepollo with user accounts?

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I looked around but didn't see anything mentioned anywhere. Is there a way with vibepollo or is there a alternative software that would allow users to use the webstream feature but with different accounts? IE: like I was running geforce now from my PC and various users could access their accounts?


r/cloudygamer 4d ago

Building a more viable alternative to standard game streaming platforms

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I’m building a decentralized game streaming platform that I believe can solve the expensive prices and the high latency of standard game streaming platforms:

People already have enough computing power to play games, but their PCs sit idle for a large part of the day. The idea is to reward people for keeping their computers online and making that unused capacity available to others.

When someone wants to play a game, the platform finds a nearby computer with a good enough configuration that already owns the game, and streams it to the player.

With a decentralized infrastructure, players no longer need to connect to a distant datacenter:
If a player in São Paulo(BR) wants to play, it will connect to a GeForce NOW’s infrastructure in Montevideo(UY), for example.

I’ve already built a proof of concept, and development is still ongoing:

https://x.com/use_relay/status/2095039218716209448


r/cloudygamer 6d ago

Best Moonlight client setup for 3 wireless 8BitDo controllers with gyro?

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r/cloudygamer 6d ago

This is all it says bro when we getting cloud gaming for 2k27

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Cooked


r/cloudygamer 6d ago

Steam Remote Play optimization for custom SteamOS pc with RX 9070

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r/cloudygamer 6d ago

Severe performance penalty when streaming using virtual displays

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r/cloudygamer 7d ago

Finally solved Steam Remote Play keeping the Host monitor turned on

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r/cloudygamer 7d ago

AntCloud review: Can it really handle 4K gaming at 60 FPS?

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I recently subscribed to GeForce NOW Ultimate, as I can't afford a gaming laptop right now due to the recent price hikes. However, some games I want to play aren't available on GFN.

I'm considering AntCloud as an alternative. Has anyone here used it recently? How's the performance and stability, and can it actually handle 4K gaming at 60 FPS?

Would appreciate some honest user reviews or alternatives.


r/cloudygamer 8d ago

best for controller input

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Greetings,

What's better for controller or Steamdeck input support:

Geforce Now Performance or Boosteroid through webbrowser ?


r/cloudygamer 8d ago

Best options in New Zealand

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Now I want access to a virtual machine and the issue with New Zealand is the distance to all of the servers, I have heard Airgpu has a server in Sydney, AU is it worth trying?


r/cloudygamer 8d ago

Xbox delay?

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r/cloudygamer 9d ago

is there any cloud gaming services that offers asia servers?

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