Moonlight PC

Moonlight PC is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream, as used by the NVIDIA Shield, but built to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This client is the successor to Moonlight Chrome for streaming on PC.

Moonlight also has mobile versions for Android and iOS.

This client is currently still in development (pre-alpha), but the streaming performance is already much better than the older Moonlight Chrome client on many machines. Test releases may be available for your OS on the Releases page.

You can follow development on our Discord server.

Features

• Hardware accelerated video decoding on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Supports streaming at up to 90 FPS on high refresh rate monitors
• Supports streaming at 720p, 1080p, 1440p, or 4K
• 5.1 surround sound audio
• HEVC support for better image quality at reduced bandwidth
• Keyboard and mouse support
• Gamepad support with SDL gamepad mappings

Building

1. Install the latest Qt SDK (and optionally, the Qt Creator IDE) from https://www.qt.io/download (select MSVC toolchain on Windows)
2. Run git submodule update --init --recursive from within moonlight-qt/
3. Open the project in Qt Creator or build from qmake on the command line

Contribute

1. Fork us
2. Write code
3. Send Pull Requests

Check out our website for project links and information.