Better Quality VNC for working remotly on a VM

[Sausage]

Hi everyone, ive been using unRAID for the last few years and love it.

im looking for better options for VNC or Windows Remote Desktop for streaming video, keyboard and mouse to another computer

I've used the Shadow.tech the cloud gaming service in the past and was really impressed with the quality of the video/control stream they used, I'd like to try and setup a similar system on my unRAID server at home so I can play games on my high powered server at home and stream it to my much less powerful travel laptop

Ive got a server at home with a Ryzen 9 5950x 128gb of ram and dual RTX3070's currently passed thru to two separate Windows10/11 VM's and would love to be able to play some games remotely, remote desktop is OK, but I miss the quality of the Shadow streams

Does anyone know of anything better than VNC or Remote Desktop??

 

[SimonF]

3 hours ago, Sausage said:

Hi everyone, ive been using unRAID for the last few years and love it.

im looking for better options for VNC or Windows Remote Desktop for streaming video, keyboard and mouse to another computer

I've used the Shadow.tech the cloud gaming service in the past and was really impressed with the quality of the video/control stream they used, I'd like to try and setup a similar system on my unRAID server at home so I can play games on my high powered server at home and stream it to my much less powerful travel laptop

Ive got a server at home with a Ryzen 9 5950x 128gb of ram and dual RTX3070's currently passed thru to two separate Windows10/11 VM's and would love to be able to play some games remotely, remote desktop is OK, but I miss the quality of the Shadow streams

Does anyone know of anything better than VNC or Remote Desktop??

 

Other options maybe to try Gamestream to a Shield if you have one.

 

I guess this is for remote access rather that remote console, i.e. using spice or vnc?

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by SimonF

[itimpi]

If you want a better remote desktop client then I would recommend noMachine.  It performs much better than Windows Remote Desktop or VNC/Spice.     However as was mentioned maybe a game specific streaming mechanism would be better if games is the main intended usage.

[C4RBON]

Check out Parsec and Moonlight + Sunshine.  I'm planning to do the same thing; stream desktop and games from my PC (either as bare metal or a VM) to my laptop for use while travelling.  I tested both of these solutions in early January.

 

Parsec is a commercial solution with a free tier intended for gaming.  I tested this, and found it good for video and games, but the text rendering wasn't as crisp as I'd like for a workstation.  Higher quality streaming settings are locked behind a pay service.  I don't really want to pay for the tier that enables 4:4:4 video, since this is a self-hosted service.  Especially since I'd be using this either on my home network or via VPN, so I don't need their network features.  Their ability to establish a connection in a variety of situations (double NAT, no port forwarding, etc) is irrelevant for me.

 

https://parsec.app/

 

Sunshine and Moonlight are open-source clones of the Nvidia Gamestream service that was recently discontinued.  You run Sunshine on the host PC, and connect to it from a client using Moonlight.  Sunshine is fairly new and still being developed.  It works for Nvidia, AMD, and now recently Intel QSV.  I had some issues with the stream freezing while using Adobe Lightroom (one of my main use cases).  However, it is in active development, and there have been several releases and features added since I tested it in early January.  The stream quality on Sunshine was impressive; better than the free tier of Parsec.

 

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

https://moonlight-stream.org/

 

Both services had impressively good latency.  I was testing it using my laptop sitting in front of my desktop, and the latency was hard to notice.  The one thing I did notice, was that scrolling wasn't as smooth; it jumps 3 lines instead of a continuous smooth scroll.

[oc43]

On 2/25/2023 at 7:52 PM, C4RBON said:

Check out Parsec and Moonlight + Sunshine.  I'm planning to do the same thing; stream desktop and games from my PC (either as bare metal or a VM) to my laptop for use while travelling.  I tested both of these solutions in early January.

 

Parsec is a commercial solution with a free tier intended for gaming.  I tested this, and found it good for video and games, but the text rendering wasn't as crisp as I'd like for a workstation.  Higher quality streaming settings are locked behind a pay service.  I don't really want to pay for the tier that enables 4:4:4 video, since this is a self-hosted service.  Especially since I'd be using this either on my home network or via VPN, so I don't need their network features.  Their ability to establish a connection in a variety of situations (double NAT, no port forwarding, etc) is irrelevant for me.

 

https://parsec.app/

 

Sunshine and Moonlight are open-source clones of the Nvidia Gamestream service that was recently discontinued.  You run Sunshine on the host PC, and connect to it from a client using Moonlight.  Sunshine is fairly new and still being developed.  It works for Nvidia, AMD, and now recently Intel QSV.  I had some issues with the stream freezing while using Adobe Lightroom (one of my main use cases).  However, it is in active development, and there have been several releases and features added since I tested it in early January.  The stream quality on Sunshine was impressive; better than the free tier of Parsec.

 

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

https://moonlight-stream.org/

 

Both services had impressively good latency.  I was testing it using my laptop sitting in front of my desktop, and the latency was hard to notice.  The one thing I did notice, was that scrolling wasn't as smooth; it jumps 3 lines instead of a continuous smooth scroll.

 

You can also try this new product:

 

https://remotly.com

 

It provides better quality than parsec and free cloud transfer to connect from any place.