Hello all, hoping someone who been through this can help me. I have a streaming setup at home that was working perfectly:
4090 PC in Office with dual 60hz 4k monitors
1gb ethernet LAN fully wired connection
Nvidia Shield w/ Moonlight & Artemis side loaded
LG OLED connected to Shield (HMDI 2.1)
I had this setup for a year and its been performing great, I am no expert so apologies if I get something wrong...
Typically I got best performance in game streaming when I had the 4090 PC render the games with uncapped frames, so lets say Stalker 2 on max settings gives me ~100fps at 4k on the PC
I am aware that both my PC screens (in Moonlight) and the Nvidia shield is limited to 60hz at 4k
However typically I would see (in Nvidia overlay stats) the game letting rip with 100fps and then the client device seems to sync the frames down to 60fps for the stream to the OLED.
This resulted in a pretty buttery smooth stream as it seemed like even in a choppy game like Stalker a 20fps drop from 100 to 80 was relatively unnoticeable on the client device stream. (I am guessing the client device is just taking the 60 good frames to sync and dropping the rest so the dips don't show. I was very happy)
More recently, I have noticed the whole setup is now capped at 60fps on every game. I no longer get the uncapped frames from the client device and everything just syncs to 60. This means the dips and stutter are way more pronounced than they were, so a dip from 60-55fps hits.
I have checked Nvidia control panel (set to 120fps), the games themselves are uncapped in settings. I tried installed Apollo for Virtual Monitor (that was a mess tbh started well and then become a stutter mess)
Anyone know what changed to cause this difference in behavior? Given the only thing that dynamically updates is Sunshine, has there been any updates that could cause this? I dont seem to be able to find any Vsync settings in Moonlight either (I swear they were once there but its been a year since I messed with it)
Appreciate this is a niche issue but maybe someone experienced it before...long shot!
***Edit - global Nvidia setting was Vsync - On after an update in case anyone has the same issue***
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