Sunshine worked brilliantly under Windows 11, but unfortunately on Linux it lacks the ability to
encode the video stream using my RX 7800 XT and microstutters like crazy.
I guess the question is did you set up VA-API and do you have an processor with integrated graphics?
When I set my instance up, I had to do just a bit of ID’ing since my processor/MB has a iGPU at device 0 that was for debugging purposes and wasn’t going to be up to snuff for encoding.
Yes I do have VA-API and no iGPU, so there wasn’t an easy fix.
I also see the same issue on Bazzite and CachyOS, and the same issue using Apollo and Sunshine. I’ve also deeply investigated network issues as the cause but I think that was a red herring.
Windows was fine out of the box and has specific AMD gpu codexes that the Linux build doesn’t have (I assume proprietary?) so that seems the most likely cause.
No output errors at all. It actually runs at high frame rates and high resolution. No matter what res or frame cap or bandwidth limit it will microstutter in predictable ways :(
I’ve tried Sunshine and Moonlight, on both Bazzite (pre-installed and configured) and CachyOS (pacman and AUR).
Sunshine worked brilliantly under Windows 11, but unfortunately on Linux it lacks the ability to encode the video stream using my RX 7800 XT and microstutters like crazy.
I guess the question is did you set up VA-API and do you have an processor with integrated graphics?
When I set my instance up, I had to do just a bit of ID’ing since my processor/MB has a iGPU at device 0 that was for debugging purposes and wasn’t going to be up to snuff for encoding.
Yes I do have VA-API and no iGPU, so there wasn’t an easy fix.
I also see the same issue on Bazzite and CachyOS, and the same issue using Apollo and Sunshine. I’ve also deeply investigated network issues as the cause but I think that was a red herring.
Windows was fine out of the box and has specific AMD gpu codexes that the Linux build doesn’t have (I assume proprietary?) so that seems the most likely cause.
is the output of the log (in the sunshine configurator web page) showing any codec errors? give that a read and report back to us with more info.
i had a similar problem before and it was related to permissions and how it was installed. the sunshine packages are finnicky as fuck on linux.
No output errors at all. It actually runs at high frame rates and high resolution. No matter what res or frame cap or bandwidth limit it will microstutter in predictable ways :(
I’ve tried Sunshine and Moonlight, on both Bazzite (pre-installed and configured) and CachyOS (pacman and AUR).
It works brilliantly on my Linux host with a 7800 XT, I think you might have an unrelated issue.
I use Sunshine+moonlight to stream from my Linux desktop (7900xtx) to my Steam Deck and it works great. Even AV1 streaming works.
Sunshine should be able to do hardware encoding for that GPU, it has support for VA-API
Sunshine uses VA-API for AMD GPUs, works fine on my RX 6600
It works fine on my 7800XT.
They’re just confusing ‘This isn’t working for me’ with ‘This isn’t working for Linux’
Dual booting Windows and it works fine there, and there’s definitely encoders not present in Linux that are in windows.
Open to suggestions, or are you just here to have strong opinions about things?
My 7900xt works great, could Be some other issue