# Foundation Sunshine

> Open-source, self-hosted Windows game-streaming host (an enhanced Sunshine fork) that streams PC games to Moonlight clients with HDR10, Dolby Vision and virtual displays.

- **Category:** Remote Desktop
- **Licence:** GPL-3.0
- **Latest version:** v2026.1020.23431.杂鱼
- **Open source:** oss
- **Languages:** C++
- **Platforms:** Windows
- **Tags:** Streaming, Low Latency, Remote Desktop, Rdp, Windows, Self Hosted, Remote, Hdr, Moonlight, Game streaming, Stream, Sunshine, Dolby Vision, Nvenc, Virtual Display, Amf, Quick Sync, Cloudgaming, Moonlight Streaming, Remote Desktop Protocol, Vivid

## Description

Foundation Sunshine is the host side of a Moonlight streaming setup: a Windows program derived from LizardByte Sunshine that you install on your gaming machine so you can play or work on it from phones, tablets, televisions and other devices. Its additions center on picture quality and convenience — dynamic HDR including HDR10+ and HDR Vivid metadata plus Dolby Vision profile negotiation, headless use through HDR virtual monitors provided by the bundled ZakoDisplay driver, RTX HDR and DLSS-style enhancement on NVIDIA cards, and NVENC, AMF or Quick Sync encoding tuned for latency. Sound reaches the client in surround formats up to 7.1.4, and its microphone can be sent back; native DualSense passthrough keeps adaptive triggers and haptics working, alongside synced clipboard, shared folders, USB forwarding and quality changes during a session. A separate desktop application, beyond the classic web page on port 47990, handles wizard-driven first setup, device components, log analysis and bulk-importing Steam, Epic or GOG catalogs. Self-hosting means running the published WindowsInstaller.exe on your own hardware, requiring Windows 10 22H2 or later plus a GPU able to encode video in hardware; many enhancements only surface fully with the team's own Moonlight V+ / Enhanced clients.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://github.com/alkaidlab/foundation-sunshine)
- [Website](https://www.alkaidlab.com)
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/AlkaidLab/foundation-sunshine)
- [Documentation center](https://www.alkaidlab.com/docs/)
- [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/AlkaidLab/foundation-sunshine/discussions)

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