What is Moonlight?

Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig.

Moonlight (formerly Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol. We implemented the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and wrote a set of 3rd party clients.


You can stream your collection of PC games from your gaming PC to any supported device and play them remotely. Moonlight is perfect for gaming on the go without sacrificing the graphics and game selection available on PC.

Windows 64-bit strictly blocks unsigned drivers from loading into the kernel.

If you are running modern Windows (all versions since Windows 7, and definitely Windows 10/11), you need the libusb driver 64 bit . Most hardware and Windows installations are 64-bit today.

Requirements: Visual Studio (with 64-bit toolchain) or MinGW-w64. Steps:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev Use code with caution.

Imagine you are an inventor who has just built a revolutionary USB gadget—perhaps a custom LED controller or a specialized scientific sensor. To make it work with a computer, you traditionally had two difficult choices: Write a Kernel Driver:

: Install both 32-bit and 64-bit components. On 64-bit Windows, the driver itself is 64-bit, but 32-bit applications need the 32-bit DLL in SysWOW64 while 64-bit applications need the 64-bit DLL in System32 .

Interacting with custom lab sensors, cameras, and data loggers that lack commercial Windows drivers. How to Install Libusb Driver 64-Bit on Windows

64 Bit |link|: Libusb Driver

Windows 64-bit strictly blocks unsigned drivers from loading into the kernel.

If you are running modern Windows (all versions since Windows 7, and definitely Windows 10/11), you need the libusb driver 64 bit . Most hardware and Windows installations are 64-bit today. libusb driver 64 bit

Requirements: Visual Studio (with 64-bit toolchain) or MinGW-w64. Steps: Windows 64-bit strictly blocks unsigned drivers from loading

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev Use code with caution. To make it work with a computer, you

Imagine you are an inventor who has just built a revolutionary USB gadget—perhaps a custom LED controller or a specialized scientific sensor. To make it work with a computer, you traditionally had two difficult choices: Write a Kernel Driver:

: Install both 32-bit and 64-bit components. On 64-bit Windows, the driver itself is 64-bit, but 32-bit applications need the 32-bit DLL in SysWOW64 while 64-bit applications need the 64-bit DLL in System32 .

Interacting with custom lab sensors, cameras, and data loggers that lack commercial Windows drivers. How to Install Libusb Driver 64-Bit on Windows

Compatible hosts

Sunshine

An open-source host made from the ground up for Moonlight, Sunshine is the recommended host to start streaming with Moonlight.

GeForce Experience

The original software to stream games to the NVIDIA SHIELD and Moonlight clients, GeForce Experience and its SHIELD streaming feature are now being discontinued by NVIDIA.

Wolf

A part of the Games on Whales project, Wolf allows streaming games and applications running inside Docker containers to Moonlight clients.

Getting Started

Are you ready to stream? Check out our Setup Guide for tips on how to get started.
Have a question? Check our FAQ page to see if it's already answered there.
Seasoned Moonlight user? Give back to the community by joining our Discord and helping other users.

Who We Are

Moonlight was created by Case Western Reserve University students as a project at the MHacks hackathon in 2013 and further developed at MHacks and HackCWRU in 2014.