How to install a virtual display on Windows 10/11 (up to 8K 240hz)
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I can not thank you enough for this. I run a couple of "sometimes headless" machines where sometimes there is a need to be in front of them, sometimes remote is what is needed, and leaving a monitor powered on 24/7 just incase is just crazy. I would personally love to have an option that was somehow able to automatically disable the virtual display when a physical display is actually powered on, but thats just me swinging for the fence, lol. Seriously tho, amazing work. This is going to make so many people very very happy.
Thank you very much!
Yes, as mentioned before, a version with 10-bit and HDR support would be incredible! ✨
It’s out now!
does it support 120hz? because it only shows 60hz on my end.
Highly appreciate your work@@MikeTheTech
Yup! Just edit the options.txt file and reinstall.
@@MikeTheTech thank you so much 🙏🏼
OMG ive spent 7 hours trying to find ways to seset this up for remote access. thank you so much.
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for developing this! This is really useful for making high-res screenshots and screenrecordings, where you can zoom-in in post while retaining a high quality!
That's a great use-case!
Thanks for this! Just ordered an RTX 4070, but I only have a 60Hz monitor. Glad to know I'll be able to enjoy 120Hz on my TV :)
how far away is your TV?
why not get a very very long HDMI 2.1
Thanks! Your drivers allowed me to setup virtual dual screen 4k PC desktops inside a Vision Pro from my PC laptop.
Glad I could help! Thank you so much for the support! I’m stoked that it works with the Apple Vision Pro!
@MikeTheTech please help if you find time
How does this work with windows 3d acceleration? Since it's another display driver than the RTX card, can this cause any issues like micro stutters when gaming? And how efficient is it in terms of performance?
I got 3 monitors running at 120hz and need a virtual display for a complicated scene, so I'm hoping I can use this as a solution
For anyone struggling on installing the *bat file. Right click, properties, there may be a check box at the bottom saying it's come from another computer, click to allow it to be used, then re-run in administrator. This worked for me and don't forget to change the 1280x800 option to 90hz for those with an OLED SD haha.
I was your 1000th star on the repository just now - congrats and thank you!
Awesome! Thank you! So cool to see the interest in the project. :)
Thanks for the software!! If you can add 10bit color that would be amazing!!!If you want a custom resolution you can add it in the option.txt file before adding it as legacy hardware in device manager.
Will look into this! Thanks for the comments and earlier feedback!
This is exactly what I was looking for, you are a godsend. I have a PC I use almost exclusively through VNC and wanted multi-monitor support. One thing I think would be nice is if it could mimic more than just 1 additional monitor. My ideal setup would be no physical monitor connected at all and VNC is just how I use it (unless something catastrophic happens forcing me to use it directly).
Change the number 1 in the first line of options.txt to the number of monitors you want. Then reinstall. :)
@@MikeTheTech OMG you're the best. THANKS!
lol. Much appreciated! Thanks a ton for the comment. I’m glad I could help out. :)
you are the fucking man helped me setup gamestreaming throughout my whole home
Nice! Great to hear. 🤙
Mike any updates on HDR? Keep up the great work
in device manager it shows added driver, but in reality there is no second monitor showing
Me too
This works great, thanks a lot! My steam deck and moonlight setup was working fine until one day it started outputting a black screen unless my monitor was on and nothing I did could fix it. I swear I'm gettting a smoother image using this well. This first game I tested I used to get tiny microstutters in, now its buttery smooth!
Thx. I have the Same Problem wenn my Monitor turn off all Games stutter ect!
Incredible help to the community, thank you!
Happy to help!
I was able to do this and add the driver to device manager but I'm not seeing it show up on my system/display items like in your video. Any recommendations?
having same problem
@@theunsortedfolder6082 I gave up on trying this method.
Damn nice work mike, hope you still had fun developing this! :)
been a pain trying to use my headless server computer and this fixed that issue, thank you
Mike. Thank you! I have Windows 10 and you had a link provided that worked for my computer! Fantastic! You are the man! Thank you.
Glad I could help!
Beautiful. For various reasons I need to use TightVNC to use my work laptop effectively from my desk, which unlike normal Windows RDP, cannot ask the system you're connecting to for a display configuration matching your client system. This finally allows me a way to bring my third monitor into play (a dummy HDMI plug got me the second display.)
Thanks This solved the issues running teamviewer on the headless server with Display ports
Nice! Great to hear. 🤙
Great video! Amazing way to add tons and TONS more windows to your OBS stream by extracting the screen or just small screen captures without having an insane amount of monitors, thanks for this video man this works for so many different people doing so many different things!
Thank you so much for this video, I was looking for a solution since my computer did not detect my iPad as a second monitor and now I can! Greetings from Chile and keep it up!!
my bro you are a genious! i've been searching high and low for an application like this. Many thanks!
This is 100 % subscription worthy thank you!
Thanks for the sub!
You have been very helpful, thank youuuuuu! I just needed to have a virtual display, it works perfectly if there is at least one monitor phisically connected to pc. It seems not working when there is no monitor, but actually it's perfect for my case. Screens are visible even when connected with remote desktop. Thank you!
You saved me buying a new headless dongle, so please share in the savings! :)
Thank you so much for the support! Very much appreciated. I’m glad the software helped you out! 🤙
Man this is amazing and exactly what I needed for moonlight, no more trying to make dummyplugs from Amazon work, thank you
You should not be using Display number or even full Display paths to reference displays. This will change between enabling, disabling, turning on/off, etc. Use Hardware ID instead that you can grab from Device Manager for each monitor.
holy this feature is huge. thank you very much!
sadly the latest version (HDR support) didn't work for me but the previous version works. I guess my Windows 11 haven't got the most latest Windows update.
Glad I could help! Hopefully it gets rolled out to more people soon.
Same here. previous version wokred great for me. HDR mode was available in the latest version but when i started games in moonlight via apple TV it just didnt work. it says try disable HDR or try a different resolution. even when i disabled HDR in windows it failed.
Nice this is great. Do you know of any way to replace actual monitor with a virtual one? Basically I'd like to split my virtual monitor (and not using fancyzones or VDM or DisplayFusion - they don't work for this purpose) I mean I want to either: Split my ultrawide into two displays, OR add padding so my display is only on the right side of my ultrawide. You seem to know your stuff, is there any way to do this from your knowledge?
You did a great work, thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
THANK YOU SO MUCH this is perfect!!
Glad it helped!
@@MikeTheTech yes it's perfect, I recently added a 4060 to my old 8600K to server as a server / backup rig (never know) and I just couldn't get AnyDesk to work. It would legit just stop providing a video signal once I unplugged the Monitor and it was really annoying, this fixed it though without having to resort to stupid workarounds.
Can't seem to get this to work, followed everything to the letter. Matched the correct settings in Moonlight with the settings for the monitor in Display, I've got the correct Output Name set in Sunshine but I'm still stuck with the black screen. I've also tried setting the virtual display as my main display but that didn't work either. The virtual display is active and working so I don't know why Sunshine can't seem to recognize it.
Have you had this resolved? What OS version do you have and what VDD version did you install? I ran into the same problem with my Windows 10 64-bit and trying to install the most recent VDD version 23.12.2. Then I tried reinstalling using VDD version 23.10.14 which was used in the video and that resolved my issue.
This is awesome. Solved a big issue for me! Thank you.
Thank you so very much for creating this! You're a legend!
Thanks for the video and for the driver , it helped me on a headless system sittuation.
Great to hear!
Can I choose the option "Duplicate" instead of "Extend"? I only have one real display. My goal is to leave the physical display off while simulating a second display on, allowing me to use NVIDIA Moonlight whenever I want, because after a few hours of the real display being turned off, the app only shows a black screen.
No, because if you turn your display off, there will be nothing to mirror. You would want Extend to act as its own display while the main is off.
@@MikeTheTech, thanks! But using the "Extended" mode, is there any way to prevent the mouse from "escaping" from the real to the fake display through the corners?
For some reason the latest version didn't work for me. Went back to "Virtual Display Driver 23.10.20.1" following the same instructions and seems to work fine. Thank you!
good stuff. Thanks Mike.
You bet!
Thanks for the video! I literally needed this today.
Nice! Glad I could help.
Thank you so much for this! For some reason I can't get HDR working though. Not a huge deal but for anyone having the issue where you get a "fatal video encoding error" when connecting from moonlight (im using an nvidia shield btw), I had to disable HDR from within moonlight even if none of the displays had HDR enabled on windows.
I'm able to connect in 4k now but it seems like my 3070 isn't able to keep up with the encoding or something as the moonlight stats show the incoming video is ~11fps. I saw on reddit people suggesting to turn of shadowplay/nvidia overlay as well as the xbox game bar so I'm trying that now. Either way, great work and thanks for the succinct video!
EDIT: some additional troubleshooting steps was to disable HEVC and use AVC (h264) instead as well as lowering the stream bitrate but it doesn't seem to be a client issue. On my host PC in my nvidia control panel i'm noticing its not actually showing the display here, leading me to believe its using my CPUs integrated graphics or something. Though on the moonlight stream statistics it does say "NVIDIA 3070" so I'm really not sure. I'll fall back to 1080p for now but if anyone finds a solution I'd love to know!
Wildly helpful, thank you!
THANKS!!! Very good job!
Thank you so much you solved my issues with this!
Great to hear!
Thanks for this! I'm facing a issue where all the refresh rates feel the same. I'm using this with Moonlight (240 Hz client display) and the refresh rate feels like 60 Hz even though I've selected 240 Hz. Anyone facing similar issues?
Yeah, did you get a fix for this?
Thank you so much for this, you've really saved my neck, you earn yourself a subscriber!
Hey Mike, thanks for this video! Folks like you are carrying the open source community on your back. :)
I had a minor performance issue when I tried to implement this that I guess has been reported in this comment section -- my virtual monitor does not actual display the intended fps when using Moonlight. My setup is Moonlight -> iPad, 2732 x 2048, 120 fps (which I added to options.txt and selected), but I'm getting stuttering and about 15 fps. I know this is not a hardware limitation because I'm able to stream my primary laptop display at the same res and fps to my ipad with no issue. Wondering perhaps the virtual display does not use GPU acceleration? I guess this is not the best place to ask for help, but I saw that you had videos regarding Moonlight setup on your channel too, so I was thinking maybe you might know something. Thanks!
Hi Mike fantastic this has solved a lot of my issues can’t thank you enough. Nothing worse than playing sunshine and it boots up in 720p all the time.
I seem to not be able to get 120hz though. Can only seem to get 60hz using the HDR version.
Yeah, I'm only able to get 60hz as well
WOW, good stuff. OfCourse subscribing and thank you.
Thanks for the sub!
This is awesome, thank you!
Subbed mostly because you have a fallout shelf and now I want to see your other videos 😁
Thanks for the sub! ☢️ Big fallout fan here!
got it to work with a nvidia tesla p4 datacenter card!
Nice! Great to hear. Cool stuff!
Thank you for instructions! I followed, but unfortunately give me an error on Win10 OS. Error is: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
The ALPC message requested is no longer available.
How to resolve it?
I have exactly the same problem: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
The ALPC message requested is no longer available.
This work flawlessly! Can you do a video of how to emulate a GPU for light/retro gaming? (I have a virtual computer running on a NAS but there is no graphics card, and I would like to use the virtual computer to run sunshine).
This is awesome, thanks for your efforts! One thing I'd like to point out is that it's not 100% friendly with Sunshine. I find I still need some sort of monitor connected to get the virtual one working, as Sunshine says "couldn't find any working encoder" when I try to use my virtual monitor (I set it to /.//display9 in the sunshine video settings as what it showed in the dxgi-info.exe tool for sunshine). I, later, realized I had to leave that field at default and boot on my main monitor and *THEN* set windows to display on the virtual display only. Even that wouldn't work as sunshine would go blank or just plain old freeze on my real monitor screen. I eventually used to DO and UNDO commands (DisplaySwitch.exe /external for DO & /internal for UNDO) to get it to work. I didn't find these instructions anywhere, so I am wondering if I am missing something on the instructions. Trying to use it without those commands in Sunshine yields either an error or blank screen, depending on what I do. I tried on 3 hosts, 2 work with the DO/UNDO (laptop & Rog Ally - figured I'd stream from it to tablet), while the 3rd which is a PC with monitor does not work at all). A bit confused on why just selecting my 2nd display only while I am using primary display isn't working. Also wondering why I can't just force it to show off /.//display9 (a limitation of this method perhaps as no encoder is found for the virtual display?). Sorry for the long post. I spent a lot of time trying to get this to work and after about 12 hours, I got it kinda working, but it's still unstable at times and doesn't work with the DO/UNDO commands. Thanks again, though for everything. You're awesome man!
Thank you so much dude! I couldn't get it to work, but with your DO/UNDO method it works perfectly!
To add in case anyone runs into the same issue as I did on Windows 10:
The Driver released in december did not work for me (23.12.2 HDR) so I used the previous one (23.10.20.2).
One issue I have is that it does not show up as an audio device, is this a known issue that has a fix?
Regardless, this has been a godsend. Thank you for the concise and simple guide, goodbye dummy plug I bought nearly a decade ago.
And thank you to anyone who helped/originally developed this and is reading this.
Edit: Fixed my first issue by selecting the previous version.
Can you enable HDR on the virtual desktop?
Not yet, that's not possible with the IDD driver. However, I have a version on the github where I'm testing a different driver type that would enable HDR. It's not quite ready yet, but hopefully I can get it working soon.
@@MikeTheTech did you have any joy with the HDR version? Or at least do you think it will be a possibility?
Hi thanks for your work. i desperately searched to extend desktop (like real extension for icons like in android or apple phone) on my laptop with no results and then you came in. So i installed your driver following your video and i use win + P to extend. So cool . Then use the feature : make screen your main display after choosing the screen you want. just for people to know An important feature is the win+shift+ arrow key to quickly change windows from one screen to another and it works well. be carefull You can drag and drop icon like with a real screen but you dont see where they fall.
i have a question do you need to select display or graphics card to instal the legacy driver? (i have and old pc with uhd 520 i choose graphic card it was the only display choice that i had and it worked) did i create a new virtual graphic card? thanks a lot. Subscribed
Or you can use free software Obs Studio to broadcast it. I use it to preview my second screen on the screen of my laptop. So cool if you want a cleaner desktop
I got this working..however, it will not do 120 Hz at 1440
Might be an easier way but I did this -
1. Uninstall the display adapter from Device manger and make sure "Attempt to remove the driver for this device" is selected.
2. Add 2560, 1440, 120 to the options.txt file
3. I don't believe you have to reinstall the cert again with installcert.bat but I did it anyway.
3. Then do the rest of the steps in the video.
4. After reinstalled with the modified option.txt file I was able to choose 120 in Advanced Display.
@@evinprice Yeah, i missed that part within the options.txt files, the resolution was there but was set to 60 in the options file, so i changed that and got it working. Thanks for the reply!
I did exactly the steps mentioned and even gor the virtual monitor to work for my headless moonlight setup from an android tablet ...but the frame rate is very less like 15 fps on resolution set to 2800 x 2000 at 144hz for OnePlus tablet , tried to change refresh rate from everywhere, still no luck 😢 ( Using 1080ti with ryzen 3600)
What were you trying to run? That’s a very high resolution. Just because 144hz is supported, doesn’t mean your PC and network can handle it. There’s a lot to game streaming.
@@MikeTheTech First of all , thank you for your reply,
But, when I used to stream through moonlight 6 months back, at 2800x 2000 resolution at 75hz ...it was smooth as hell no framedrops no choppiness nothing (a monitor was plugged in at that time with refresh rate of 75hz)
But since I broke my monitor, and found your guide,I tried to give ur guide a shot and it worked headlessly, but even when I want to stream at 2800 x 2000 at 75 hz through ur headless method ....I'm barely getting 15-20fps,
Tried changing to lower resolution at 480p and fps went to 50-60fps, but as 480p on 2800x2000 displayed looks very pixalated
(No harware were changed at anytime ,... except the monitor which I broke )
It might not be using gpu encoding on the display. You may need to check the sunshine settings.
doesnt work for me. im stuck at 60hz even selecting 120hz
If I understand correctly, this can be working as a dummy hdmi/displayport for streaming while monitor is turned off?
Yup!
Exactly what i was looking for! I use my pc remotely from my laptop and the screen was stuck with 4:3 res after my previous 16:9 broke and had to plug a 4:3 one to debug some vnc stuff. Thx
Mike, thank you so much for your efforts! All works great, except one thing - mouse cursor is lagging on the virtual desktop, im having host cursor chasing clients`s one all the time no matter what resolution. My GPU is nvidia rtx 4090 so perfomance should not be an issue. Any thought on that? anyway so far its a great tool that makes my life much smoother, keep it up!
Thanks! I switched to a quest pro for monitor so i want to try higher resolutions then what my physical display can do. I was able to make a custom 8K resolution in the nvidia control panel but it's still using the same options as my old 4k, 30hz monitor. I'm using a 3090.
Hey thanks for all the hard work. I installed this and it works great for using my Tesla GPU as a display driver now. The only thing now is that I have a lot of input lag. Are there any settings that you would recommend?
What soft of streaming desktop can show 8k and 120 resolution? VD only can 2k that can be visible, and Immersed has only 16 mb bitrate, the text will be blurring. What soft to stream desktop do you use?
This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
The ALPC message requested is no longer available.
Did you put the files in your c drive first?
@@MikeTheTech You mean did I decompress the zip archive and put it in a directory/folder? Yes.
@@MikeTheTech I tried it with the file in my c drive but still same error
Looks nice
Thanks for this content. Trying to setup a virtual desktop for sunshine. When I run dxgi-info.exe in the cmd prompt I can see the new display I made as an output associated with my GPU (RTX 3060 Ti), however when I put in the output name (\\.\DISPLAY13) into the audio/visual config menu I get the following error in sunshine: Fatal: Unable to find display or encoder during startup.
Fatal: Please ensure your manually chosen GPU and monitor are connected and powered on.
Any idea why this is?
Oddly enough, with your fork I do get more resolutions, but can still only choose 60hz?
Thanks for your hard work! Wanted to ask about how to use this and make sure sunshine/moonlight uses that display to open games on via playnite/steam big picture?
You can set the display to default in Display Settings, which works for most games, but some may need to be set manually. Turning off all other displays should make it go to it by default as well. You can set the default streaming display in Sunshine as well, and can find the display ID using tools\dxgi-info.exe
Legend, thanks@@MikeTheTech
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support! Very much appreciated!
This is the largest Super Thanks I've gotten so far, too! So extra thanks for that!
@@MikeTheTechYour driver is a gem, worth every penny! Thank you so much
works nicely with sunshine host on windows and moonlight client on android tv. also does 4k 120hz with HDR which is awesome. BUT...for some reason the virtual display driver becomes the main display even after deselecting that option in display settings and once you quit your moonlight desktop/steam big picture session the main monitor plugged into host pc goes blank or becomes secondary display. you then have to use controller (in my case) in mouse emulation mode, revert the display setting on the client tv (android) and then go back to using the host pc as normal. also display settings window remains bound to the virtual display screen and only disabling it in device manager brings back the window to the host pc monitor.
is this a quirk in sunshine/moonlight or windows or the display driver is the million dollar question.
HI Just wondering how you got 120hz and HDR to work, for some reason I am locked at 60hz?
sheesh I wish I knew about this sooner, much better than amyuni, persist after rebooting and a wide range of resolution
Thanks for the comment and good review!
Looks like the output name of the virtual display would change on every restart. Is there anyway to prevent it to change it?
Thank you very much. Now i am able to sunshine stream with monitor off. Using this for sunshine moonlight game stream on my samsung tab s8 plus. HDR looks somewhat weird though in ff7 remake game. pinkish color on yellow color. Not sure HDR issue from sunshine or the tablet itself. The game HDR looks great on monitor. Anyway thank you again.
I would love to see a feature where I can specify which GPU the virtual display is attached to. For example,, dGPU instead of always choosing iGPU.
Disabling iGPU in a Device Manager worked for me
@@mikuri_13 it doesn't work for a laptop
@@RebelliousX I have a laptop with UHD 630 + GTX 1050 and disabling integrated graphics in the device manager works flawlessly for me.
@@mikuri_13 Mine is Acer Nitro 5 UHD 630 + 1050 TI and that didn't work. Main display is set for the UHD 630 by default. I can't even change it via Nvidia Control Panel. Disabling the UHD 630 from device manager will only mean that it is replaced by Microsoft Basic Driver.
@@RebelliousX yes, that is right. Your main display (laptop's screen) will always be on the integrated graphics and there isn't any workaround for that. You will not even have a screen menu in the NVidia Control Panel, only the PhysX configuration.
But the virtual display will work with the dedicated GPU if your laptop does not have any other option (if you purposefully disable the integrated graphics in the device manager). You can check the GPU usage when you're using only the virtual display - it will only be the discrete GPU.
It could be that it only worked for me because I physically disconnected the laptop's screen from the eDP port and use a few external screens via the DisplayLink dock, whose I can disconnect by simply turning off the dock, leaving only the virtual one... But now I also tried Zephyrus GX501 with 7700HQ/GTX 1080MQ and it works absolutely the same with the laptop screen physically connected. Virtual Display that I stream is being rendered by the discrete GPU if I disable integrated GPU in the device manager.
(both devices I tried use Windows 11 23H2)
installation doesnt work for me
edit : i wasnt running the install cert as admin, it works
Thankkk youu 🥰
Hey! I've installed the virtual display but it doesn't really output video and Sunshine won't show anything through it (it does work when using my physical displays but they are not in the resolution I require). Help please :)
Edit: If you're having an issue like this make sure to disable your iGPU (or if you have multiple GPUs for some reason, make sure one is enabled).
Thanks for the driver!
When i boot into windows all i get is a curser and a black screen. Seems to have bricked my pc. Windows acts like it starts but no display, only curser.
Edit: booted into safe mode off USB Windows installation media and deleted the driver.
I'm guessing it was a problem with having a pre existing headless display driver.
-- can confirm. You MUST UNINSTALL ALL DRIVERS FOR VIRTURAL DISPLAY DRIVERS before installing this. I'm guessing they are all pulling from the same registry key.
Ah! That makes sense. They likely use the same Microsoft base driver. I’ll try to differentiate it more in the future to avoid conflicts. Thanks for the info!
@MikeTheTech this same thing happened to me. Please what's the solution to this issue.
This guy streams
Help, i need the resolution as 2k "2560x1440" at 90, 120, 144, whatever, but it only shows 60fps, so i uninstalled everything, (even deleted the certificates and rebooted), modified the option.txt file to add these, and i indeed can select and use these resolutions, but the mouse does not show up while streaming on moonlight (on teamviewer it does), and enabling the stats of moonlight the stream is at 30something fps (90 is selected on moonlight settings, no vsync) and the decoding and rendering are too at 30something so it seems it is streaming at like a third of the resolution i selected (which was 90fps in this case) , but even after undoing this and installing the original files, mouse still does not show up and selecting the 1080p resolution that does have 90, 120, 144 etc framerate options, the behaviour is the same while streaming with moonlight and 60fps or more selected on the moonlight settings.
I have watched several of your vids on sun/moon, thanks for those. I am still trying to find though how I can have moonlight run from the virtual monitor rather than my desktop monitor which I also want to be able to use. Is this possible? You mention using sunshine on the virt disp driver but I didn't see any vids you did for setting it up.
Thanks for all your efforts
thank you for the incredible useful software! So if I need to use only one resolution on my host PC, I have to keep only one proper resolution in "option" file and it will work after the reboot?
Many thanks , Work like a charm !! Just a question , how to auto log to Sunshine when start the computer ? That way i can install the PC in other location without monitor and use only the TV . Thanks !
thanks a lot, it's working great with sunshine!!! Is there any way to get this monitor to be recognized as a touchscreen? If so, could you record a video showing how?
I get all the way through, and then Display Settings insists my new virtual display 'isn't active', so I can't actually set a resolution. Any ideas?
Thank you very much for this!
Is there any possibility of further customization for available resolutions? I recently started using Sunshine to stream my workhorse system to a Moonlight client running on my Surface Book 2- but it has a relatively weird aspect ratio of 3:2 (3000 x 2000 for my model; 3240 x 2160 for the bigger one). I searched for a virtual monitor solution like this in hopes of avoiding having to go into Nvidia control panel & change my resolution settings every time I stream to the Surface Book.
Yup! You can add custom resolution and refresh rate combos in the options.txt file. Just reinstall the driver after editing it in C:\IddSampleDriver\options.txt
@@MikeTheTech Awesome, thanks very much!
Great stuff. Is it possible to add a virtual 7.1 sound card so that I can stream to the Nvidia Shield in my home theater?
Hey, thank you very much for your effort! Are you planning on making a hdr version for Windows 10? If not, what is the reason why? Would love to know :)
Windows is the one that released the virtual driver support. Windows 10 comes with an older version, while windows 10 has a new one that support advanced features like HDR. Since we rely on the windows feature, it's up to them to release it on older versions. Unfortunately, they put up a roadmap that seems to indicate that they don't plan to release it for Windows 10. However, there may be a way to isolate the update and manually install it on Windows 10, but there hasn't been much progress there yet.
@@MikeTheTech thank you! Yeah, i just switched to Windows 11 and now i don't have any problems, thank you for your service!:)
@K.o995 sure thing! I have really enjoyed it so far. Hope you do too!
Just installed this. I've got a Samsung S34C65xT ultrawide (3440x1440 100hz), I'd like to stream to over sunshine/moonlight. When I check advanced display settings though at 3440x1440, only 60hz is an option. Same with 4k and other resolutions.
Edit options.txt and replace the 60 with your required refresh rate. Then reinstall.
@@MikeTheTech will do! Hooboy how did I miss that. Thanks! By the way your content is amazing. 🤘🏻
Much appreciated! 🤘
Hi. I gor problem. After first instalation it was working fine. After 2 weeks or so it stopped working and when im trying to install it again I see error code: this device may not working properly, windows cant find required drivers for this device. If someone have a solution for this problem I'd be thankful.
Also, is there a way to turn the virtual monitor off then turning it back on with hotkeys or something without disabling via the driver? Again, thank you very much for this. It is amazing!
Not with hot keys as far as I know, but you can turn it off in Display Settings. Just click the monitor and switch from Extend or Mirror to Disabled/Off.
@@MikeTheTech Thank you! As FYI, I ended up following some Reddit user's suggestion and using a program called Monitor Profile Switcher, then tied up the profiles to opening/closing Playnite via Sunshine and seems to be working for me.
@NSJ90 nice! Will check it out.
@@NSJ90 could you link this Reddit post please? I'm trying to do the same thing.
Hey Mike! Thanks for the amazing tutorials and the awesome virtual display. Unfortunately my samsung tv runs on the resolution 4096 x 2160 native. Could it be added by any chance?
Great, thanks a lot. But for some reason, 120Hz is not in the list, only 60Hz... Any ideas what could be wrong?
Ok, this is next level!!! So no need to buy a 4K or 8K monitor If I can use this to game.... @K monitor will stay a little longer I think!