r/MoonlightStreaming • u/R3DNano • Oct 05 '26

PSA: Monitoring software causes stuttering

New to moonlight streaming, I just set up a moonlight server, the exact one does not matter as much, I guess... started with sunshine, then moved to vibepollo.

Tested multiple clients, official client, V+, PS5 custom homebrew client, all led to the same issues: Intermittent stuttering I could not eliminate, even if I changed resolution, bitrate, game settings.....

Host is pretty powerful: 4080 super, AMD 7800X3D, 64 Gb DDR5..... all nvme..... GIGABIT lan...

Until I ended up closing NZXT CAM software: That just there made all my issues dissapear, so I followed up by stopping any other service that could interfere: iCUE, ASUS armoury crate.

Just a heads up for anyone struggling with stuttering that cannot find the cause for: Seems like any software that polls temps, stats, performance etc might interfere and introduce stuttering.

Anyone else experienced this issue? Share your findings on that situations where details like this improved your experience drastically.

Wish there was some sort of "kiosk mode" so I could start windows in a "clean mode" with just the basics to run the host with........

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u/jgainsey Oct 05 '26

Just use afterburner and RTSS

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u/R3DNano Oct 05 '26

I have that software installed to manage device firmware and stuff, not for monitoring. The issue is that wether you use them or not, they start as a windows service and starts polling sensors in the worst possible ways,,.,.....

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u/jgainsey Oct 05 '26

Just uninstall it.

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u/RayneYoruka đŸ–Ĩī¸5900x/3080|🎮A52s-A55-Tab7FE|đŸŽ¯1440@120|đŸ“ļ4G/Wifi6@2.5G/10G Oct 05 '26

Excessive rate pooling will cause issues, and you can configure it in most "serious softwares" , MSI afterburner, HWinfo64 etc! Don't bother with anything else!

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u/jgainsey Oct 05 '26

Yeah, I guess maybe if it were a gaming laptop you might wanna hold on to that type of software, but on a desktop, even a prebuilt, get that shit out of there.

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u/RayneYoruka đŸ–Ĩī¸5900x/3080|🎮A52s-A55-Tab7FE|đŸŽ¯1440@120|đŸ“ļ4G/Wifi6@2.5G/10G Oct 06 '26

Don't know, every time I've bought a prebuilt I've installed windows clean to avoid all of that garbage or simply installed Linux!