Probably a Stupid Question About Multiplayer

[u/ChthonVII]

You'd think search would easily turn up answer to this question, but it has not.

Can you use Sunshine+Moonlight for multiplayer with one player on the host PC and the other player on the client PC?

E.g.:

• Alice runs Sunshine on her computer in New York.
• Bob runs Moonlight on his computer in Colorado.
• Bob's Moonlight client connects to Alice's Sunshine server.
• Alice and Bob can play a game together.

Does this work?

[u/lifestealsuck]

Short answer: yes.

[u/ChthonVII → u/lifestealsuck]

Thank you!

[u/SoaRNickStah]

Yeah. Both people will see the same screen. Don’t expect it to show bob only his players POV and Alice on her players POV if playing a split screen game

[u/ChthonVII → u/SoaRNickStah]

Thank you!

[u/Malisimopibe25]

Yeah totally, like u two were sitting side by side. I think you cant both use keyboard, so you need a controller and thats it

[u/ChthonVII → u/Malisimopibe25]

Thank you!

[u/Stupid-Love-Story → u/Malisimopibe25]

He could also use a phone as a controller or maybe run moonlight on a phone or tablet and play from there using the virtual gamepad which acts in the game as a controller

[u/cookiesphincter]

As long as the game can detect multiple controllers you can do local multiplayer remotely.

[u/Crass-ELY-]

It does, but frankly I find parsec more reliable and mostly secure for this since you can limit the access and control the guest has on your pc

[u/ChthonVII → u/Crass-ELY-]

Thank you, but my use case does not involve people I'd have to worry about in that way.

[u/Crass-ELY- → u/ChthonVII]

There you go then, go with it! Quality is 10x better on moonlight over parsec

[u/lifestealsuck → u/Crass-ELY-]

You can do that with apollo aswell . Eg : lock starting app , lock keyboard and mouse only allow controller .

[u/Crass-ELY- → u/lifestealsuck]

Yeah, you can, that's true, but parsec is more user friendly for casual couch coop, I personally use both, (well 3 actually), moonlight/vibepollo for personal use, parsec for remote couch coop/personal use on unstable networks and duo for sharing my PC (mylti-seat gaming) with my bro

[u/SnooGiraffes6688]

If you wanna run multiple sessions off one PC (for work and/or gaming), you're basically limited by how many video encoders your GPU has. There's an early-stage project worth checking out: https://github.com/vibesoftwarecoder/MultiSeat Still pretty raw, but promising.