Releases: moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt
Moonlight PC v0.5.0 (Beta 2)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
To update an existing installation, simply run the latest installer (for Windows) or replace the old app in your Applications folder (for Mac). For the portable Windows version, extract the latest version on top of your old folder.
For Windows users without administrator rights, you can use the portable version in the attached zip files. Normal Windows users should still use the installers.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q - Quit session
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z - Toggle mouse capture
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X - Toggle windowed/full-screen
New features:
- Added option to enable mouse acceleration for remote desktop usage
- Added option to disable automatic PC discovery
- Added gamepad mappings from https://github.com/gabomdq/SDL_GameControllerDB
- Added help links to error dialogs
- Added quit shortcut tip to stream loading page
- Restored the autodetect audio configuration option
Bugfixes:
- Fixed quit app dialog starting the wrong app
- Fixed very high input lag on GFE 3.14.0 and earlier
- Fixed poor performance when streaming to a client with a Kepler GPU on Windows
- Fixed video artifacts on older Intel GPU drivers by disabling HEVC for old driver versions
- Fixed sending errant mouse click when capturing the mouse
Moonlight PC v0.4.0 (Beta 1)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
To update an existing installation, simply run the latest installer (for Windows) or replace the old app in your Applications folder (for Mac). For the portable Windows version, extract the latest version on top of your old folder.
For Windows users without administrator rights, you can use the portable version in the attached zip files. Normal Windows users should still use the installers.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q - Quit session
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z - Toggle mouse capture
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X - Toggle windowed/full-screen
Changes:
- Added option to enable (unsupported) 90/120 FPS streaming on 60 Hz monitors
- Added refresh rate matching for better frame pacing on high refresh rate monitors
- Fixed streaming at native resolution on Retina displays
- The streaming window now appears on the same monitor the UI was displayed on
- The streaming window is now centered on the target monitor
- Display a dialog when the connection is terminated by the remote PC
- Added option to select between full-screen exclusive and borderless windowed mode
- Fixed streaming with no audio device
- Fixed mouse lag with some high polling rate mice
- Improved UI performance on the app grid page
- 1440p and 4K 120 FPS performance is improved to avoid encoder bottlenecks
- Autodetect audio configuration option removed because it was broken
- Fixed Windows installer to remove box art cache directory on uninstallation (for real this time)
- Fixed < key on ISO keyboards
- Fixed 2 clicks being required to capture the mouse when the streaming window is not in focus
- Create crash dump on Windows when Moonlight crashes
- Added option to avoid creating a desktop shortcut in the Windows installer
- Fixed UI hang when trying to wake a PC added by hostname without network connectivity
- Changed Windows UI to render with ANGLE rather than native OpenGL due to Intel driver issues
- Fixed mouse capture issues on Windows when returning to the streaming window after using Alt+Tab
Known Issues:
- Video latency may be very high when streaming from older GeForce Experience versions. Updating GeForce Experience to the latest version (3.14.1) should resolve the issue. #68
- When quitting the current game by launching a new one, Moonlight may start the wrong game. To work around this issue, quit the current game by right clicking on it, then start the new game. This issue will be fixed in the next Moonlight release.
Moonlight PC v0.3.0 (Alpha 3)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
To update an existing installation, simply run the latest installer (for Windows) or replace the old app in your Applications folder (for Mac). For the portable Windows version, extract the latest version on top of your old folder.
For Windows users without administrator rights, you can use the portable version in the attached zip files. Normal Windows users should still use the installers.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q - Quit session
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z - Toggle mouse capture
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X - Toggle windowed/full-screen
Changes:
- Switched to full-screen exclusive mode on Windows to reduce video latency
- Added an option to disable V-Sync for the absolute minimum video latency on Windows
- Improved video smoothness on Windows and Mac
- Reduced power usage when not streaming or minimized
- Prevented screen saver and display dimming from activating during streaming on Windows
- Stored configuration data (pairing, settings, etc.) alongside the portable installation instead of writing them to the PC's registry
- Improved performance when resizing the streaming window on Windows and Mac
- Fixed installer to remove box art cache directory on uninstallation
Moonlight PC v0.2.0 (Alpha 2)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
To update an existing installation, simply run the latest installer (for Windows) or replace the old app in your Applications folder (for Mac).
For Windows users without administrator rights, you can use the new portable version in the attached zip files. Normal Windows users should still use the installers.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q - Quit session
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z - Toggle mouse capture
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X - Toggle windowed/full-screen
Changes:
- Added a background update check on Windows and Mac
- Added a portable version for Windows that doesn't require installation
- Improved DMG installation experience on macOS
- Fixed endless macOS keychain password prompts after your Mac goes to sleep
- Fixed missing DLL errors after upgrading from v0.0.5 (Pre-Alpha 5)
- Fixed functionality of '=', 'Numpad Dot', and 'Numpad Enter' keys
- Fixed uninitialized variable causing strange gamepad behavior
- Moved logs to /tmp on macOS
- Fixed video freezing if a UAC dialog appears while streaming
- Added a warning for incompatible configs and decoder failures
- Added a warning for Wayland performance issues
- Stopped capturing the mouse by default for windowed streams
Moonlight PC v0.1.0 (Alpha 1)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
To update an existing installation, simply run the latest installer (for Windows) or replace the old app in your Applications folder (for Mac).
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q - Quit session
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z - Toggle mouse capture
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X - Toggle windowed/full-screen
Changes:
- Added native resolution streaming support
- The stream window is now resizable in windowed mode
- Fixed black screen when streaming at 4K on some GPUs (Windows)
- Fixed broken video scaling causing extra stretching and off-center video
- Fixed gamepad input issue causing some Y axis inputs to be reversed
- Replaced status text with icons
- Added HEVC software decoding support
- Launch warnings now show up for configuration issues
- Added VDPAU decoding for Linux
- Gamepad input now works when the app doesn't have focus
- Reduced app installation size on Windows and Mac
Known Issues:
- If you upgrade from a previous build on Windows, you may get an error about missing DLLs. If this happens, open Add/Remove Programs, click Uninstall, then click Repair. If that doesn't fix it, uninstall and reinstall from scratch.
Moonlight PC v0.0.5 (Pre-Alpha 5)
Windows and Mac binaries are attached here. Linux binaries are available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight
Changes since v0.0.4:
- Fixed a bug causing increased frame drops and input lag
- Added support for quitting apps
- Fixed a bug causing poor performance on Haswell and Broadwell integrated GPUs on Windows unless HEVC is disabled in settings
- Fixed a bug causing the app to fail to load on Windows machines without working OpenGL support
- Signed the Windows build to reduce (eliminate?) SmartScreen warnings
- Allowed full-screen to work with Spaces on macOS
- Fixed an accent prompt appearing unexpectedly when keys are held down on macOS
Moonlight PC v0.0.4 (Pre-Alpha 4)
This release adds official platform support for Mac and Linux, in addition to the Windows builds from Pre-Alpha 3.
Moonlight PC v0.0.3 (Pre-Alpha 3)
Test build of Moonlight PC for Windows x86 and x64. Mac and Linux are not packaged in binary form yet but can be built from source.
Please file bugs here or report them to us on Discord.
New features from v0.0.2
- Support for 1440p resolution
- Support for up to 90 FPS streaming (enabled with a > 60 Hz monitor)
- Fixed AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboard layout issues
- Minor UI tweaks