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DLSS frame gen doesn’t work or works poorly when connected via Moonlight

This thread was added on March 24, 2025, with posts from SOLIDAge.

Original Post

Setup: Technically I’m running Apollo but they’ve similar as I’m sure you know. When I connect to steam via the Moonlight app, my other two monitors at my PC turn off and just my TV, which is recognized as a third monitor, kicks in.

Anyway, I recently got a new 5080 and got excited through it in my system, updated drivers and started to play via Apollo on my TV. I wasn’t impressed with the performance and noticed that even though I had framed gen on it didn’t seem to be working great.

Fast-forward to assassin’s Creed shadows comes out, and I noticed that the frame generation option only says off and FSR when I connect via Apollo.

If I connect using steam link instead of moonlight, I see the option in assassin’s Creed , and all my other games that were running not great or running at a rock solid 60

TLDR; frame gen only works when I am not running a virtual adapter.

Setup: Technically I’m running Apollo but they’ve similar as I’m sure you know. When I connect to steam via the Moonlight app, my other two monitors at my PC turn off and just my TV, which is recognized as a third monitor, kicks in.

Anyway, I recently got a new 5080 and got excited through it in my system, updated drivers and started to play via Apollo on my TV. I wasn’t impressed with the performance and noticed that even though I had framed gen on it didn’t seem to be working great.

Fast-forward to assassin’s Creed shadows comes out, and I noticed that the frame generation option only says off and FSR when I connect via Apollo.

If I connect using steam link instead of moonlight, I see the option in assassin’s Creed , and all my other games that were running not great or running at a rock solid 60

TLDR; frame gen only works when I am not running a virtual adapter.

I wonder if that means that I should just reinstall the Apollo adapter?

I’m unsure what that is so no? Haha

Yeah FG works totally fine on my pc, it’s only over moonlight / Apollo it doesn’t.