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How I Got Sunshine/Moonlight Working On My Headless Windows 11 PC

This is less a tutorial and more a collection of notes on how I managed to get this working, mainly because I figure at some point I'm going to reinstall Windows and I'll need to know how I did things. Unless I go ahead with my plan to install Linux, in which case I won't need these notes. Anyway, let's dig in... Step The First - Install Sunshine Source:  https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine Just... Follow the instructions there. Download the thing, install the thing, set a password, and get moving. Step The Second - Install The Virtual Display Driver Source:  https://github.com/itsmikethetech/Virtual-Display-Driver Again, follow the instructions on the page. One step they leave out is edit the option.txt  to include the resolution/refresh rate you want. I suppose you could go so far as to remove all the ones you won't  be using, but I didn't because maybe Windows will need to fall back to a different resolution because it's being weird. But make sure the ...

How I Got Sunshine/Moonlight Working On My Headless Windows 11 PC

This is less a tutorial and more a collection of notes on how I managed to get this working, mainly because I figure at some point I'm going to reinstall Windows and I'll need to know how I did things. Unless I go ahead with my plan to install Linux, in which case I won't need these notes. Anyway, let's dig in... Step The First - Install Sunshine Source:  https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine Just... Follow the instructions there. Download the thing, install the thing, set a password, and get moving. Step The Second - Install The Virtual Display Driver Source:  https://github.com/itsmikethetech/Virtual-Display-Driver Again, follow the instructions on the page. One step they leave out is edit the option.txt  to include the resolution/refresh rate you want. I suppose you could go so far as to remove all the ones you won't  be using, but I didn't because maybe Windows will need to fall back to a different resolution because it's being weird. But make sure the ...