For as long as I have been using the Moonlight app to stream games from my PC to various screens, it has exhibited an annoying issue. Occasionally, the stream freezes on the client device but continues playing on the host. I usually end up having to restart both systems to reconnect.

The problem was worse in some games than in others. Hogwarts Leagacy really triggered the issue on my setup a lot. Destiny 2 suffered from the drop as well. There were no error messages in any log file that I was able to locate. It happened often enough that I mentioned the problem in my first article about Moonlight. Not often enough for me to give up on samestream technology.

Searching online led me to this Redditt Moonlight Freezes Up. The answer to my issue was in the comments. I turned off the hardware GPU scheduling feature found in Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the host system and on any Windows PC clients. Disabling this feature configures the operating system and CPU to manage VRAM. When the feature is turned on, the task is offloaded to your graphics card. Which can boost overall system performance if you have the free cores.

Go to Settings -> System -> Display -> Graphics and click Change Default Graphics Settings. Then disable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling by sliding the toggle to the off position. You will need to restart your computer for the change to take effect.

The other possible solution is to use the famous Display Driver Uninstaller utility to uninstall your current driver completely. Then, download and install what many consider to be NVIDIA’S best driver release ever, version 472.12.