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[Shield General] bfenty:
Moonlight iOS

Just want to say I'm so happy this is now ported to iOS! Thank you for doing that, as my daily driver is an iPhone. I'm not sure if this is the right forum for the iOS version, but I'm looking for controller support-what kinds of controllers are supported that I could attach to my iPhone (non-rooted)? Please say dualshock, please say dualshock...;)
[Shield General] clap trap:
i have a strange issue when using moonlight-embedded to stream my desktop: everything works fine, until i hit the windows key, or alt-tab, (ok, so i use virtualhere usb-server to pass through the keyboard, because the alt key didnt work) moonlight quits with the message Loss Stats transaction failed. Everything works fine, except when i hit one of those buttons... is there a way to solve this? because i really like this , and i think it should be able to work, i can see it work

can the keys be fixed within moonlight, without using usb passthrough? i think it should work with usb passthrough because it works for the alt key (except the quitting when hit windows key issue), but if it can work without it that would be cool too ofcourse,
[Shield General] rumsey:
Geez, I don't want to be that guy but the PC client is in pretty rough shape, you can't even alt-tab out of Moonlight or you lose mouse control. Personally I love this, it works 10x better than Steam In-Home Streaming when I am trying to play over t-mobile tether to my home VPN. It's actually totally serviceable tech wise, just need PC client input options and bugs squashed and we'll be in business. Unfortunately the last PC updates was 5 months ago so IDK if or when we'll be seeing improvements.
[Shield General] Dr. Vector:
I have a rooted nexus player (on android 6.0) with the root version of moonlight, but when I hit ctrl+shift+z, it doesn't work right. The android cursor still displays and tracks from the mouse, but the cursor in-game no longer tracks, it's pretty much the opposite of what it should do. Is this a problem with using the latest version of android as opposed to 5.x.x? I didn't try it on 5.x.x because I just recently rooted it for the mouse capture. The game I was trying it on was Civilization 4 if that makes any difference.
[Shield General] cgutman:
Probably not soon. Xbox One was fairly easy because the USB protocol was simple. I have no idea how the Steam Controller communicates.

Unfortunately, iOS limits you to MFI controllers unless you jailbreak and install Controllers 4 All.

I know the Windows key is a known issue with GameStream (See https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/851367/?comment=4591698). Not sure about the Alt-Tab issue, but it seems probable that they are the same issue. That's odd that Alt wasn't working via Moonlight.

You should be able to capture and uncapture the mouse with Ctrl+Alt+Shift. Does that not work for you? Also what OS are you running? I know we had many issues with mouse capturing on OS X.

Give me a list of features and bugs that you want looked at and I'll see what I can do.

Heh, I wondered how long it would take for someone to find that root capture is broken on Marshmallow. I was too lazy to root one of my devices, but maybe now I will. Probably SELinux related if I had to guess. That's what the issue was on Lollipop.
[Shield General] rumsey:
Yes, apparently the problem is because I didn't RTFM. Support for mouse 4/5 would be great but it might be a gamestream limitation? If that is the case then maybe an option in the moonlight client to detect mouse 4/5 presses and send a different custom key, like ] or \ ?
[Shield General] clap trap:
tested again, it seems alt is working, except in some application and not when i need to use it in combination with the mouse , alt-drag doesnt work, when hitting windows key moonlight just says Unmapped button: 125

tab also works but not alt-tab , i think i will try an older version of GFE and see if it does not exit on winkeypress

edit: no luck with GFE 2.1.1.0 (quits with RTSP DESCRIBE request failed: 500)
[Shield General] bfenty:
So, it DOES work with MFI controllers? Just want to be sure before I shell out $50 for one...
[Shield General] cgutman:
Yes, however one of the major gotchas about MFI controllers is that there's no Select button or L3/R3 (analog stick clicking) buttons. Some games play just fine without them but others are pretty difficult. There's an optional on-screen overlay that has the buttons but that obscures part of the screen. Other than those drawbacks, the MFI controllers feel very nice (seems pretty low latency).

Edit: If you put the on-screen controls in auto mode (default), they will change based on what buttons are present on the attached controller. When you attach an "extended" MFI controller (one that has triggers), the parts duplicated by the controller will disappear. IMHO, the "simple" MFI controllers (only DPAD and ABXY) are not worth it for Moonlight unless maybe you're just playing emulators.
[Shield General] bfenty:
Sounds like a good solution, thanks
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
I read your FAQs and saw that any games/programs can be added for streaming. I was trying to do it but could not find that option in the latest GFE. The only option I see is to add some games folder for it to scan. Has the Adding custom programs option removed or something?
[Shield General] nk33:
you have to look a bit harder - it is under the shield section
[Shield General] bfenty:
Next question: is it possible to use a keyboard and mouse (again, on iOS-I know how to do it on Android)? I've tried using the touch screen, but couldn't figure out how to right click with the mouse.

Thanks for all the help!
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
Actually no. I had the GFE beta installed and there is no option to add any EXE. Removed it and installed the normal version and found the place to add any exe..so i guess they are going to take away that option soon
[Shield General] nk33:
Well they must be mad to do so as it means their shield users wont be able to add apps manually either… why go backwards?

Either way, I feel strongly that the good people at moonlight will find a way around this…
[Shield General] bfenty:
I'd be interested to know where you found this setting, as I don't see it (and I don't believe I'm running the beta). Anyway, easiest way to get around it is to use moonlight to start Steam Big Picture and then you can play anything that's available in Steam. Since you can manually add .EXEs to Steam, should mean you can do this. It's a workaround, but it's pretty easy.
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
Well they can stream all the compatible games, just not the ones we are manually adding. So i guess they wont mind it that much
[Shield General] nk33:
also just thought, you can also add any game manually into Steam so we can do it that way if they remove the feature...easy
[Shield General] Bboy486:
The moga works 100%
[Shield General] clap trap:
if that is what's happening, is it possible to reverse engineer GFE too? it is not nice they give you something useful, and later they strip down the useful parts , well i guess nvidia is known for this bs
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
This is where it is in the normal version, this whole "Shield" menu is removed in the beta version
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
Dosnt work. When I was running the beta GFE, i could not even see "Steam" in the list of apps/games. Only the game that was located by GFE was ready to be streamed. When I went back to normal version of GFE I could see Steam also. So I guess they are taking away all options.

But Moonlight guys have a PC version now..buy the time GFE turns to **** moonlight might have evolved to work better in PC
[Shield General] PROACTIVES:
Where is the support for RADEON GPU? This is absurd limiting to just nvidia hardware.
[Shield General] nk33:
Maybe, but to me its more important it works on android.

I think they will either:

1) find a way round the removal of the manual add games feature

Or

2) find a way of disabling the auto update feature so we arent forced to update gfe every time we open it

Or

3) create a custom gfe (ie their own host for the pc you are connecting to)

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Absurd? This is only possible because Nvidia produced this technology.*

If you call up Ati(radeon) *and tell them to take their finger out and create a similar technology then you will probably see a similar app for them…*

How can you expect the developers to produce a streaming app when the streaming from ATI cards aint available??*
[Shield General] jeebspawnshop:
You are woefully uneducated and misinformed, with a handful of rudeness thrown in for flavor.

I trust that you will swiftly depart from this thread and return to 4Chan from whence you surely came.
[Shield General] nk33:
Well said son!!
[Shield General] clap trap:
i could find it under an older version of GFE, it seems to be not present in latest v2.8.0.80 beta
[Shield General] MusikMonk:
You might want to consider a clean install because something is wrong on your side:

http://imgur.com/a/aA8Sw

Edit:

After posting that, something occurred to me. Do you have any official SHIELD devices (handheld, Tablet, TV)?

I do have a SHIELD Tablet, so perhaps that's why I have the menu and some of you don't.

Maybe NVIDIA is now checking if there's a SHIELD device associated to the account before displaying the menu.
[Shield General] jaykresge:
Are you...being serious...?
[Shield General] Haints:
Not sure if anyone has talked about this already, but ... on my Note 4, when I use Moonlight the image is somewhat washed out--i.e. the image on my monitor is much darker than what I see on my phone. It wouldn't be an issue if I could use in-game brightness settings, but they don't seem to work with Moonlight--i.e. they don't alter the image on my phone at all ...

Do any of you have any idea how I might darken the image with Moonlight? Shadows in particular appear kind of grayish and could use a bump in brightness (black level).
[Shield General] ravi_buz:
:eek: I have posting about it. In beta GFE you dont have that tab. In normal version its there.
[Shield General] SimoxTav:
I see, and do you think the issue i'm facing with the buttons mapping could be related to xInput controller that is "plugged" once you connect via Geforce Experience on Steam? My steam controller is connected to the PC and I only use the tablet as a remote screen but I'm completely unable to customize buttons on steam via moonlight (neither the templates work). Checking the settings I noticed that 2 controller are present: the Steam Controller one and the XInput one. If there was an option to disable such input device it would probably go well (IIRC there was a tip of renaming a DLL but i'm not that sure).

Found it it was right on the first post :P
[Shield General] MusikMonk:
I've seen your post. And if actually you take a moment to check what I have posted you would see that I am using the beta and I have the tab.
[Shield General] clap trap:
yes you're right, the shield menu is available now that i turned my shield tv on again, i was/am testing on raspberry , my bad :o
[Shield General] 1stGGMan:
Hi

Unsure if its falt with the app, nvidia streamer or game but Fallout 4 is not working with mouse or keyboard (BT for both)?

Game will respond to keyboard enter press to skip intro but then stops after this.

Tried World of Warships and that working fine

Kind Regards
[Shield General] jeebspawnshop:
I same here with Fallout 4.

Everything else works fine, but Fallout doesn't like game streaming, it seems.

There is an options in the Fallout ini file to disable game pad, which I did, thinking that was the problem. It wasn't :(

No problem though. Moonlight rocks my world for everything else!
[Shield General] samsoule46:
Key combo not working properly ?

Hi guys,

Ive got weird problem with moonlight on my "Archos gamepad2" which is essentially a tablet with a built-in controller : everything works fine but when I use the analog stick in combination with another key it release the key pressed . :confused:

For Example : Press R trigger + move left analog stick = release the R button . The hardware is functioning properly, i've tested it with the App called gamepadtest and in emulators.

Only moonlight does not allow me to use the analog with another key pressed ...

Even weirder : when I check the "multiple controller support" option some games tends to work better but some others totally forget the analog stick...

Any idea why ?

Some old version I used (limelight maybe ?) didn't do that if I recall correctly ...:silly:
[Shield General] Haints:
Is there any way to increase black level (brightness) with the image Moonlight streams? The image is pretty washed out on my phone for a lot of games ...
[Shield General] pofcorn:
I'm sligthly overwhelmed with all the available Android hardware. What would be the most cost-effective device for game streaming, performance-wise?

In Canada, the Shield costs 275$, which is out for me. What about the MOJO? It seems to use the Tegra 4 chip (same as Shield as far as I can tell) and is at least 100$ cheaper.

And what about those cheap chinese boxes? I'm looking at the MXIII-G (search gearbest for it, can't paste links) which has great reviews.

edit: I'm wondering if it's even the right thread to ask this. If it's not, I'll gladly post my questions on another thread.
[Shield General] nk33:
that MOJO looks great to me! comes with a good looking controller as well....can someone confirm all the buttons map 100%?
[Shield General] sark666:
I haven't done so yet but I was going to root my nexus player (on mm) for the main purpose of root capture. Was just curious if that's something in the pipeline or is it a ways off.
[Shield General] Deeco7:
I can't get Moonlight to display pair screen on my PC
[Shield General] htrampe:
5.1 with Windows

Hi Everyone,

first i need to say: u did a great job! Moonlight is absolutly amazing and it works great! THX!! THX!!! THX!!!!

But i'am not sure about the Sound. So before i start to configure, change settings and so on i ask here: is it possible to get 5.1-Sound with moonlight? In my case a smart tv-pc with an working 5.1-System is the target of my gaming-pc with no 5.1-System. Does moonlight get a 5.1-Signal or not? THX for answer and keep it up!
[Shield General] m140n1:
Hey I am having exactly the same issue.

My phone is attempting to connect to my computer, it shows the pairing code, however nothing appears on the computer.

Best Regards!
[Shield General] seriosbrad:
For the games I have installed that are compatible, I certainly do
[Shield General] nielo360:
Video of limelight running on xperia z ultra with moga pro controller:) my favorite way to play.

http://youtu.be/hlsGNQ3Zx0o
[Shield General] perezlyon:
ARM version and audio problem

Hello

first of all thank you for your work.

can you give me the link last update ARM version?

Do you have problems with audio?

Thank you in advance for your help
[Shield General] Ilocans:
Thanks for your help.

My steam and my games are installed on another disk but after adding the steam directory, GFE detect them: it show me that I have 4 games detected. I even optimized them. However when I use the limelight client (PC or Android), I have the steam error.

Also maybe it is a clue to find the reason why it does not work: when I try with GFE 1.7.1, GFE does not detect my games but GFE 1.8.1.does...
[Shield General] akasurreal:
Steam not found in GFE app list

Tried all this, (FYI, it always had found my games before and does still now), but no luck, same error. :crying:

Not sure if this is related, but most of my games are in a second library on my D drive, but I do have Steam installed in the default location (C:\Program Files)

Also that thread doesn't seem to be related to the issues I am seeing here. Sounds like we are seeing our games in GFE and I know I am not having wi-fi issues when I test on Ouya because I have it wired ethernet, but also testing on Nexus 7, same result.
[Shield General] tallnerd1985:
Hey cgutman, try getting ahold of garbear from the XBMC forums. He is in charge of the RetroPlayer builds and I know he would be delighted to do a XBMC build with your code.

Granted the backend could be easily integrated into XBMC and then rewrite a frontend using Python.
[Shield General] Renfast:
Hi, the pair was success but when Bigpicture was launch I obtain this error in my android device: "error starting control connection"

Any idea? Some help please.
[Shield General] decarre:
Hi everybody and sorry for my bad english.

I have one problem with limelight. I have an error each time i try to stream my pc . i have this message ''starting video stream failed"

Steam start on my PC, the resolution change into 720p, but i have a windows who appears this one ask me for "chose properties for sound" and i have lot of choice in grey "NVIDIA HDMI input" but i can t choose it !

I ve reboot and stop firewall and stop fews apps runing background

Also, I wan t to say a big thanks to developer because it s a very good job (for the video i ve seen)

Thx :)
[Shield General] Ilocans:
Update:

I acheive to make it work but I am not sure how.

I execute GFE and forgot it opened a few hours. When I came back, on the game page I have a new picture of the game selected and it tells me that game cannot be optimized. However, if I launch limelight on my laptop, I achieve to connect to my desktop without any error.

I tried with my android Galaxy SIII, big picture start, limelight start handshake... but after a few seconds I have a new error: limelight stopped.

I hope this can help anyone with the steam error.

Regarding limelight on my laptop it seems to work well but when I leave a game and I am back to big picture, the whole page does not come back. Like if I am stuck in a zoom on the left top corner of the screen. So I can naviage but I do not see anything.
[Shield General] mungus:
any ideas on what would be causing the limelight pc client to not pair? all i'm getting is a notification "Already Paired". obviously not paired though, and gives the "Invalid Session ID" error if it tries to stream.
[Shield General] dra2gonfly:
I am pretty much the same boat as you. I have my Ouya's and pc's working great, but my Galaxy SIII not working. Same issue with it doing the handshake and all but after a second or two nothing but the error limelight stopped. Restored my phone and tried again but had same issue. Dont know what to do from here on that one.

As for the zoom issue. I was having problems with this too. What ended up fixing it for me was setting steam to start on startup. And also not setting it to start in big picture mode. Have not had the issue (weird zoom or what I was thinking it was loosing focus) since.

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I was having a similar issue. I had all my games installed to a different hard drive but steam itself installed to the default location. What fixed it for me was installing one game to the default game location. Then start the game through steam. Restart the gtx pc, Then rescan with GFE. That worked for me.
[Shield General] akasurreal:
Steam not found in GFE app list

Wow, this actually worked!!!! Thanks! Just had to install at least one game into the default folder. I didn't even restart PC or start the game through steam, just installed it and told GFE to rescan.
[Shield General] Guitouille:
I can also confirm that this is working. Was stuck on the "Steam not in GFE app list" for 2 days, doing this fixed the problem ! Now I need to test it a little further, but looks promising ^^
[Shield General] perezlyon:
Does anyone help me ? please :(
[Shield General] Aaronneyer:
There's a link to it on the first page.
[Shield General] perezlyon:
Noesynd hâve

Thanks for response.

But at launch my audio control panel opens and I get an error message.

limelight starts correctly only when I disables all audio peripherals.

Have you had the same problem ?
[Shield General] Aaronneyer:
It's hard to help with a problem without more specific information.

Can you give the following:

- How you reproduce the problem

- What device/os is running Limelight

- What error message you are getting

- Information on your audio steup

- Any other information you think would be useful in debugging the problem
[Shield General] perezlyon:
It works now, i hought to select nvidia hdmi out ;)
[Shield General] tequilouz:
Hi everyone,

First thank you for your work, its amazing!

All works perfect for me but i have a little problem:

I stream my games on my asus me301t but i play with my wireless 360 controller and receiver plugged into the pc.

Some games like tomb raider or hitman dont want to use my 360 controller when i stream. It works perfectly when i dont stream.

Is it possible to disable control stream, then i think i would be able to play on my tab those games with my controller on my pc

I hope you will understand me, im french and m english is........ poor

Thanks for all guys!
[Shield General] Aaronneyer:
Sometimes you can manually change the settings to turn gamepad on, but that's dependent on the game you're playing.

It's not possible to disable control stream, but it's not necessary. The PC can take input with or without it disabled, so if your controller is plugged into the PC, you can still control it while you're streaming.
[Shield General] nk33:
Same thing happens to me sometimes. Reboot pc. If that doesnt work then remove GFE, reboot, re-install
[Shield General] BonsaiGil:
Game Streaming with Moonlight (too laggy with a Sky Hub)

This article is brilliant exactly what I was looking for.

The concept of streaming my gaming PC to my TV through my FireTV got me really excited. The reality though isn't quite usable yet, I don't know whether this is down to the Moonlight App, My Sky Hub router or the FireTV. I suspect its probably the router or the FireTV. What's great though is that its going to be a viable route for streaming sometime soon when my hardware upgrades.

I made a couple of articles based upon what I was doing with the Moonlight App, Nvidia Stream and the FireTV (non 4K). Also is the solution to the Xbox 360 pad not working. I've posted links below:

Not allowed to post new links as i'm a noob : ) if you google 'Stream the latest PC games to your Amazon FireTV (Nvidia Stream Hack)' it should show the article. Its from Review Hub.

Hope these help somebody out, and let me know about your experience with Moonlight and whether you were able to get the latency low enought for comfortable gaming.
[Shield General] joluga123:
Anyone knows a work around this? I have the same problem with Fallout 4.

Thank you
[Shield General] Aindril:
Hello all!

Im just started the streaming with Moonlight, good results with my Huawei Ascend G7 (1080p 60fps) only 30-40 ms latency, but with my Android TV have problems :crying:

If i choose 30fps and hardware decoder i have 140-160 latency, if i change to 60fps latency up to 600-700. I try changing decoder, 1080p and 30fps with software decoder works with 25-30 latency but i have the feeling of frame skip in the image on my TV...

The Android TV is a MXIII-G with GPU Mali-450MP8 2GB of RAM, AnTuTu gets more than 40k points, my phone the half but Moonlight works better :confused: I try ethernet connection with android TV and have same results, any idea?

My PC:

i5-4440

8GB RAM

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Nvidia GeForce GTX750

Thanks :)
[Shield General] GhoulMonkey:
gamepad workaround not working anymore?

So it looks like renaming 'rxinput.dll' to 'rxinput.dll.old' no longer works to disable the native Moonlight gamepad, as it causes the stream to crash during initialization. Has anyone had luck finding a workaround for this? Some games (i.e. Fallout 4) won't allow you to use a mouse / keyboard when a gamepad is detected (turning off gamepad support via the .ini file doesn't fix this, apparently).

Thanks in advance for any advice.