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


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


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 one you want to use is included.

Step The Third - Install Moonlight Client


You guessed it - follow the directions.

That's it, you're done. Congrats.