Apollo/Virtual Display Best Practices

[coffeepotkiller]

I recently switched from Sunshine --> Apollo and I'm still getting used to using a virtual display and streaming to Moonlight on Steam Deck. I'm experiencing some micro-stutters and generally lower FPS compared to Sunshine or direct from PC. I'm curious if there are any best practices that may be slightly different compared to using Sunshine + physical monitor mirroring, such as:

-fullscreen vs borderless in-game setting?
-vsync+frame pacing enabled in Moonlight settings and/or vsync enabled in-game?
-RTSS vs NVCP vs in-game FPS limiter?

I know some of this may be different on a game-by-game or device-by-device basis but if anyone has recommendations or experiences on what settings worked best for them I'd be curious to hear!

[ClassicOldSong]

1. Borderless makes more games able to pickup the new resolution automatically, and make frame generation being able to capture in some cases

2. For lowest latency, disable vsync on both end. I've recently discovered nvidia's low latency option but haven't got a conclusion yet, you can try toggle that option to see what's better. General vsync should be off if using RTSS.

3. There're both reports saying one work better than the other, might really depends on your config. But RTSS has more positive reports in general.

The most weird thing is when it's fine it's totally fine, totally no noticeable difference from streaming from a physical monitor, I really suspect it's something all we have overlooked, maybe just one option can change everything.

But it's already concluded that AMD cpus can suffer from similar problems much more often.

[coffeepotkiller]

Thanks so much for all that great info! I'm definitely going to experiment with disabling vsync and using RTSS and Nvidia low latency.

I also need to continue testing with more games to see if it's just certain games that have problems.

That's interesting, I do have an AMD Ryzen 5600X CPU.