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Yes, yes, I know, buy AMD, but I already have nVvdia to use CUDA, but this new patch on the nightly branch (on arch, you can use sunshine-git but with my patch here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sunshine-git) finally makes it so that I don't have to "dual boot" into X11 to get game streaming at full performance.

Prior to this, wayland-based streamers had to make a round-trip through CPU ram, and now it stays within GPU ram and thus we can stream 4k on nvidia/Wayland!

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've gone crazy several times trying to get this to work on my Arch + AMD rig. I wish it was easier.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

IDK, I can't thank them enough for what they have done already. I'm just wishing it would be easier so it would be come more widely adopted.

I mean:

  • Why doesn't every open source game launcher include it?
  • Why distros don't adopt this 1st class remote desktop tech?
  • Why most users don't know it even exists?
  • Why hasn't AMD baked it in their Windows drivers?
  • Why hasn't it been included along the MESA drivers?
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i dunno if they could implement a reimplementation of nvidias protocol on the amd driver bundle on windows. i mean legally, could this have issues?

and mesa is not for streaming software, its for drivers and sunshine is not a driver

its already on flatpak, so on most distros repos by default

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Having to install the software is kinda the lowest common denominator in desktop computing, I think bundling it with things would be silly

Edit: you mentioned you used arch. Sunshine is a mainline arch package, so you just install it and then start the systemd service. Can’t imagine it being much easier than that

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I did just that. Doesn't work. IDK why.