Moonlight Game Streaming Overview
What is Moonlight Game Streaming?
Moonlight is an app that allows users to stream games and other apps from their NVIDIA-powered gaming PC on their local network. The app is compatible with iOS devices and can be used with a touchscreen or an iOS-compatible gamepad. To use the app, users need to install NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) on their gaming PC and enable GameStream in GFE's SHIELD settings page.
Features
- Open-source and completely free
- Up to 4K 120 FPS with bitrate options up to 100 Mbps
- Stream games purchased from any game store
- Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support
- Support for MFi, PS4, and Xbox One S Bluetooth controllers
- Wake-on-LAN to wake your PC for streaming
- Local co-op with up to 4 connected controllers
- Compatible with Windows 7 or newer, NVIDIA GeForce GTX/RTX or NVIDIA Quadro GPU, and NVIDIA GeForce Experience or Quadro Experience
- Ethernet connection from PC to router highly recommended
- 5 GHz WiFi is highly recommended
- A physical gamepad is recommended for faster paced games
- Open-source code available on GitHub
- All trademarks cited here are the property of their respective owners.
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Product Details and Description of
Stream games and other apps from your NVIDIA-powered gaming PC on your local network with Moonlight. Use your touchscreen or an iOS-compatible (MFi) gamepad to play your PC games on your iOS device. Simply install NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) on your gaming PC, make sure GameStream is enabled in GFE's SHIELD settings page, and you're ready to stream! Features: • Open-source and completely free • Up to 4K 120 FPS with bitrate options up to 100 Mbps • Stream games purchased from any game store • Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support • Support for MFi, PS4, and Xbox One S Bluetooth controllers • Wake-on-LAN to wake your PC for streaming • Local co-op with up to 4 connected controllers PC Requirements: • Windows 7 or newer • NVIDIA GeForce GTX/RTX or NVIDIA Quadro GPU • NVIDIA GeForce Experience or Quadro Experience • Ethernet connection from PC to router highly recommended Other Requirements: • 5 GHz WiFi is highly recommended • A physical gamepad is recommended for faster paced games If you have any trouble, click our support link for help or look for the help links within Moonlight. This app is open-source. The code can be found here: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-ios All trademarks cited here are the property of their respective owners.
Top Reviews
By MaximusRanger
Transform iPad to Laptop
I don’t even have a Nvidia graphics card and successfully got this to work on AMD GPU using a program called sunshine on the host PC just because this is the first free app to add the new point lock mouse support. I had to go out and buy a lighting to camera adapter (it’s just a USB port) to use the new mouse API since it’s only on certain Apple mouses for now as of writing this review. Apple should address this issue in a minor update to iPad hopefully soon so that all Bluetooth mouses can run the new GameCube mouse support in iPadOS 14. The adapter fixed the problem if the new mouse mode isn’t working for you. Any Apple adapter that has a USB should work. It has the new mouse feature needed for point lock to work for example playing first person shooters.
By Krulas88
Fantastic app
Five star rating explained: I have used this app for literally years. It is incredible and lightweight. In short it does what you would expect and allows for a seamless remote access experience. This app used to work perfectly over the public internet. Sadly this is no longer the case and it is not the fault of the developer. Apple has modified their App Store terms that make it impossible to both allow access over the internet and to be on the App Store. The developer has made the choice to remove what for me was the core reason to use this app. I do not feel the developer should be penalized with a poor rating for Apple’s choice to limit my use of my device through their App Store limitations.
By Nick kids shahs
Amazing app
I love this app, allows me to play 1080p 120fps on iPad with little input lag, it the best quality and input lag compared to other streaming services in my experience. The UI is decent, I like the settings slider and it seems additional settings have been popping up with some updates. It works almost flawlessly with both the host and client on WiFi (same network) for me. Cheers to the development team and looking forward to any future updates. I have yet to try using a wireless mouse and keyboard, I use an Xbox one controller, so I can’t comment on this aspect yet. You can press 3 fingers on the screen to bring up the keyboard (on iPad at least) and do basic keystrokes and stuff which I’ve been using to chat in games.
