Good news! As of today, Microsoft has begun publicly rolling out Remote Play and Xbox Cloud Gaming integration into the Xbox App for Windows 10, meaning you can stream your favourite console games on your PC.
In regards to xCloud, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members in 22 countries can access Xbox Cloud Gaming via the app directly by hitting the "cloud gaming" button and then selecting a game included in the library. Microsoft says it's added new features "to help you get started", such as Game Bar integration and easy-to-access information.
Meanwhile, Remote Play returns as an option, allowing you to access your console on your PC through streaming. As Microsoft describes it, it's "essentially a way to mirror your console gaming experience on another screen", and it works with all generations of Xbox One consoles, as well as Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
Better yet, Remote Play will now support 1080p up to 60fps on PC, along with the ability to play select Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games (specific titles have yet to be unveiled). General stability updates have also been implemented.
"With these new updates, you now can play some of your favorite console titles on a wide range of PCs, even those that don’t have the specs required for certain PC titles. Streaming games through the Xbox app provides the quickest way to play without having to install games on your PC, giving you more time to dive right into Psychonauts 2, Hades, or whatever else you are playing."
If you've already had access to these features for a while, it's because they were added for Xbox Insiders beginning in early August, but today marks the first time that they have received a public release for all Xbox and PC users.
Pleased to see Microsoft rolling out xCloud and Remote Play support for the Windows 10 PC app? Tell us below.
[source news.xbox.com]
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Just tried it in the app. Worked great for Psychonauts 2 & Twelve Minutes!
Did not work so well for Doom Eternal or Forza H4. Too much lag for me, over compensating left and right like a drunkard.
You're mileage may vary.
I'm fully wired up with ethernet and worked flawlessly for me.
Obviously, I would expect a different experience if I tried on a laptop over Wi-Fi.
This is awesome! Be nice to just have one app to manage Xbox games on PC. Seeing as I don't have a series x yet Xcloud and gamepass on PC has basically made it so I don't need to get one.
Ohh, this is exciting! Been using xCloud through Edge and it's worked pretty well, but there's various ideosyncracies and automatic logouts and such that happen in the browser that can get in the way. Hopefully the interface is smoother through the app. I've been waiting for this, if it works...
@themightyant Were you using BT or wired/dongle controller? There's absolutely input lag noticeable especially for Horizon, and it will be worse for some people than others depending on network layout to the ISP, but I've noticed that BT controllers really really suck. Combine the controller lag plus the streaming lag and it's hot garbage. They may be fixing that with a coming controller firmware, but for now, I don't think BT is really usable for straming. I bought the Wireless Adapter dongle that lets it use the xbox wireless protocol and the latency is much, much better. Some games I don't even perceive input latency anymore, which is astounding over xcloud. Racing games, it'll always be perceptible I think, but for everything else, it seems solid.
@NEStalgia I use a X360 wireless controller with the usb Xbox wireless dongle. I’ve been using this for 10+ years of PC gaming and never had an issue, though obviously all the additional timings add up as you said. Also on a wired Ethernet connection.
I agree that some games I don’t notice the latency, any non twitch game basically is 95+% fine and I have played games this way before. (As it was with Onlive a decade ago to be fair, the tech worked even then)
But FPS and racing just don’t work well enough for for me yet I find I’m over compensating and the cursor/car is swaying left and right as I want for the screen to catch up. Which to me is unplayable, a shame.
@blinx01 What games did you try?
@themightyant Ahh, yeah, if you're already using the dongle, or wired, you're as good as it gets. I haven't tried FH4 with the dongle, yet, just USB, and it was dreadful as you say, swaying all over the place and overcompensating. I could do open road cruising ok but a race event, no way. FPS, I haven't gone high speed with DOOM, I've done some Outer Worlds which is a quasi-FPS, and Outriders, which is third person soother and that went fine. I even did Hades which is kinda precision based. But mostly DQ, Yakuza, Skyrim, Psychonauts. Definitely not precision games, though a platformer and latency is a bad mix.
I should try FH4 with the dongle. BT was terrible. Even DQ the camera would move after I let go of the stick. With the dongle it was pretty timely.
I tried Remote Play with my laptop and works great, is there a way to play games with the laptop's mouse and keyboard instead of the Xbox controller? I have my Series S since august and i'm still really bad playing FPS with the controller, would be awesome to aim with a mouse in RE7 or Control
@SplooshDmg ooohhh, super stoked now. Going to have to try it out in a few min! I've been doing all my gaming for the past month and a half on xcloud in edge, so this sounds like a treat (lol, why did I buy that sx again? )
@SplooshDmg btw, I had some app glitches like closing the game and opening it again not allowing play to work, and the quit game button doing nothing. Annoyingly I also keep getting the internet connection warning (on wifi) which is distracting, even though the game doesn't seem to be experiencing any connection issues. Otherwise it runs nicely. It's Yakuza 0 so it's not a good test of twitch action but it feels good, doesn't have random popups for some .net component, automatically goes full screen, actually turns off the controller when I close the Surface Pro which the browser didn't do, and the active controller kept turning the PC on. Plus on browser I periodically got stutter and weird lag, sometimes needing a reboot to fix. That's not happening with the app!
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