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Moonlight game streaming needs Sunshine host, not deprecated GameStream

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moonlight · sunshine · cloud-gaming · gpu · game-streaming

Moonlight setup wikis still reference NVIDIA GameStream as the streaming host, but NVIDIA shut GameStream down in 2023. The modern replacement is the open-source Sunshine host, which pairs with Moonlight identically. For a rent-a-cloud-GPU-and-stream setup: install Windows + Sunshine on a GPU VM (Paperspace/Vast.ai/RunPod/Shadow), pair Moonlight from the client. Gotchas: prioritize a geographically close region (<40ms), and note that ephemeral GPU instances lose game installs each session and some datacenter GPUs are blocked by anti-cheat.

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