XBox Game Pass Cloud Streaming

ondafly · 15-09-2020 12:16pm #1

Anyone know when this is available ? Supposed to launch today 15/9

https://www.xbox.com/en-IE/xbox-game-pass/cloud-gaming/home

I have the app installed on my tablet - but it just links to the above page.

recyclops · 15-09-2020 12:28pm

i actually just checked there myself, the streaming app is now offline so i imagine they will just update the gamepass app soon enough

Metroid diorteM · 15-09-2020 1:57pm

Yeah I was in the beta and it wasnt live when I tested the app and the gamepass app this morning.

Hopefully sorted later today.

ondafly · 15-09-2020 2:36pm

Got it working - its actually the app called Xbox Game Pass (Beta) with a white icon.

maximoose · 15-09-2020 2:39pm

Gamepass app has updated now for me, cloud section is there

Just played a bit of Minecraft Dungeons with the onscreen controls over 4g, worked brilliantly tbh

Lord Spence · 15-09-2020 4:02pm

maximoose wrote: »

Gamepass app has updated now for me, cloud section is there

Just played a bit of Minecraft Dungeons with the onscreen controls over 4g, worked brilliantly tbh

weird still not there for me

recyclops · 15-09-2020 4:05pm

i had to go in into the play store and start the update manually

Royale with Cheese · 15-09-2020 5:16pm

Tried it out there with an Xbox controller paired to my OnePlus 7 Pro hooked up to a USB-C monitor, works pretty well. Resolution not the best now but it was definitely playable.

Metroid diorteM · 15-09-2020 6:27pm

Ok just got resi 7 going with my razer kishi and its quite frankly gamechanging.

Who even needs an xbox?

honda boi · 15-09-2020 7:35pm

Me and my brother share game pass ultimate. It's on his account but my Xbox is his home so we both have it.
I'm guessing he'll be the only one able to use Xbox cloud service?

Fingleberries · 16-09-2020 7:49am

honda boi wrote: »

Me and my brother share game pass ultimate. It's on his account but my Xbox is his home so we both have it.
I'm guessing he'll be the only one able to use Xbox cloud service?

Yeah, you're right. The Game streaming is only for the account that actually has Game Pass Ultimate - I've seen a few people on reddit with the same question.

Wikidy · 16-09-2020 9:56pm

I tried it on wifi, 2.4ghz. Forza was a bit choppy. I know they recommend 5ghz. Will probably try over 4G tomorrow. I had to manually update the Gamepass app to get access.

Alkers · 16-09-2020 10:25pm

Wikidy wrote: »

I tried it on wifi, 2.4ghz. Forza was a bit choppy. I know they recommend 5ghz. Will probably try over 4G tomorrow. I had to manually update the Gamepass app to get access.

Was this your phone or your Xbox on 5ghz? Does it stream from your own Xbox at home or not?

I've only tried it at home and it was extremely laggy, we've 100meg download and 20up

Wikidy · 17-09-2020 4:19pm

It was my phone on 2.4ghz wifi network. I've streamed locally from my Xbox to my laptop before. That works well, although the xbox has a wired powerline connection to the router.

Lord Spence · 18-09-2020 9:17am

Played it on my tv last night on my Nvidea Shield it was flawless, mind you it was on a wired connection.

Asmodean · 18-09-2020 9:49am

I wouldn't have the best internet wifi speeds at all ( 20-30 mbps ) but I was playing a couple of hours of Gears 1 last night and I was amazed. Runs choppy for the first 30 seconds or so but absolutely flawless after that. Its blown PS now out of the water for me personally. Even running on a wired connection its always been a laggy, horrible experience. Hats off to Microsoft on this one.

Fingleberries · 18-09-2020 6:50pm

Played a bit of Minecraft Dungeons with touch controls on the phone... They work surprisingly well.

Treppen · 19-09-2020 1:05pm

Tried Minecraft too and pretty good. Over 500mb... But translates to 50mb over WiFi.

But i hate Minecraft.

DeSelby83 · 19-09-2020 6:26pm

I played a few hours of state of decay over last few days using a dual shock 4. Works great, it's a game that doesn't require precise movements like Forza or a fighting game. Very impressed with the tech. I think it'll really shine if/when they put it on the console so you can try a game before committing to installing it or playing the first level/tutorial while the game downloads.

Edit: playing over wifi with around 300mb down

CatInABox · 09-12-2020 6:00pm

More news on this, specifically that it's coming to iOS and PC in spring next year. The iOS workaround seems to be to make it browser based, meaning that they don't have to go through Apples ridiculous certification.

Some other news in here too, mainly about usage figures for Game Pass.

marcbrophy · 09-12-2020 10:12pm

CatInABox wrote: »

More news on this, specifically that it's coming to iOS and PC in spring next year. The iOS workaround seems to be to make it browser based, meaning that they don't have to go through Apples ridiculous certification.

Some other news in here too, mainly about usage figures for Game Pass.

If you spot any preview program for PC, will you let us know Cat?

marcbrophy · 01-03-2021 10:12pm

This has popped up again in news over the weekend!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/27/22304762/microsoft-xcloud-app-windows-xbox-touch-controls-gyro-support

Hopefully a public beta is in the offing for PC soon

Fingleberries · 20-04-2021 10:56am

So, did anyone get in to the iOS beta yet? Looks like they say it'll start small and they'll invite more time goes on...

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/04/19/xbox-cloud-gaming-windows-pc-and-apple-limited-beta/

20-04-2021 11:53pm

Just got the invite for PC beta. EDIT: It's for both iOS and PC

TEST CLOUD GAMING
ON XBOX.COM

Be among the first to try Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) on Xbox.com with your Apple mobile device or Windows 10 PC.

Through this limited invite Beta, you’ll be able to play over 100+ console games through your web browser.

Your participation and feedback can help shape the future of Cloud Gaming.

TO PARTICIPATE:
•

Visit Xbox.com/Play and log in with your Xbox profile

•

Pair your controller to your Apple mobile device or Windows 10 PC via Bluetooth or USB

•

Play a console game and please provide feedback

GET STARTED ❯
SUPPORT HUB ❯
No additional registration or sign-up required to participate. This is a limited technical test and open to selected Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members only.

CatInABox · 20-04-2021 11:56pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Just got the invite for PC beta.

Same here. Had a game of Enter the Gungeon, and the audio was pretty rough. Early days on it though, very exciting. It's also a webapp, so I've already "installed" it on my taskbar, this is going to be incredibly handy for when my kids demand to watch Paw Patrol.

marcbrophy · 21-04-2021 12:51am

Best of luck!
Hope I get an invite!
I downloaded the beta app for Win 10, but as I'm not in the preview, I can only stream from console.
The cool thing about that is, if your Series X is off, you can stream from it, without it appearing to come on

Buttros · 21-04-2021 9:00am

I got the invite too but it doesn't seem to work. Was just going to load it to see the games available. Will give it a proper try this evening.

21-04-2021 12:42pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

Best of luck!
Hope I get an invite!
I downloaded the beta app for Win 10, but as I'm not in the preview, I can only stream from console.
The cool thing about that is, if your Series X is off, you can stream from it, without it appearing to come on

Wait, do you mean you can currently stream from your xbox even without the new game pass app? What app do I need exactly?

I thought this was taken away with the series x, I had presumed because it was going to be part of xcloud streaming. Really missing streaming to my pc, especially when working from home (for quick breaks of course!)

marcbrophy · 21-04-2021 12:53pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Wait, do you mean you can currently stream from your xbox even without the new game pass app? What app do I need exactly?

I thought this was taken away with the series x, I had presumed because it was going to be part of xcloud streaming. Really missing streaming to my pc, especially when working from home (for quick breaks of course!)

Yeah, there's a preview app out there and the below video shows how to get the installer from the MS store site.
Just follow the instructions, very simple.
Once you're in the app, there's xcloud streaming side is the same as visiting xbox.com/play on a browser. You won't be able to play, unless you have an invite. But there's also a console streaming side, that'll connect to your Series X to stream, like the old xbox app used to do for xbox one's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m4hb1zDdVk

super_furry · 22-04-2021 7:57am

Got my invite yesterday. I have a work laptop that's locked down when it comes to installing stuff so this is brilliant for me. Was able to start RE:7, play through the first two hours will no problems or noticable lag and then continue on my Xbox in the evening.

It's incredible tech.

mossie · 22-04-2021 10:23am

super_furry wrote: »

Got my invite yesterday. I have a work laptop that's locked down when it comes to installing stuff so this is brilliant for me. Was able to start RE:7, play through the first two hours will no problems or noticable lag and then continue on my Xbox in the evening.

It's incredible tech.

I tried it out on my laptop last night. Worked very well to be fair.

Royale with Cheese · 24-04-2021 11:51am

Got my invite yesterday, gave it a go on my iPad and MacBook. The stream ran fairly smooth on iPad, quite choppy on macOS. I don't know why but any game streaming app either official or third party for Xbox or PlayStation has always run near flawless for me on iOS and a choppy mess on macOS.

The input lag on both iPad and Mac was noticeable for me though, I can't say I noticed it as bad on the Android app. That's possibly because I've been mainly playing with a razer kishi on Android, I might try and pair the controller to the phone and compare.

Fingleberries · 24-04-2021 12:44pm

Got an invitation mail as well.

It's pretty great actually - I had an old PC that I was using to play Sea of Thieves with the kiddo (they play on the Xbox and the TV). The Laptop could run SoT ok at 'cursed' graphics levels. I switched to using streaming in the browser and it plays great at Xbox One S levels, generally smooth with occasional graphics pop in (not too distracting).

I'm liking it so far. It's a great way to add 'couch co-op' to games that don't actually have local co-op options (I mean games that have online multiplayer only).

askpt · 25-04-2021 8:01pm

How are you getting the invites? Every day I check my inbox for one.

CatInABox · 25-04-2021 8:29pm

askpt wrote: »

How are you getting the invites? Every day I check my inbox for one.

I'm pretty sure I got it because I've been active in the preview program for years, perhaps the other are similar.

askpt · 26-04-2021 9:20am

CatInABox wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I got it because I've been active in the preview program for years, perhaps the other are similar.

Interesting. I was an Insider when it was the first Xbox One but I never did that to Series X. Perhaps that’s the reason.

Fingleberries · 26-04-2021 10:15am

askpt wrote: »

How are you getting the invites? Every day I check my inbox for one.

Just got one randomly in e-mail. I've been in the console OS updates preview / insiders (whatever it's called) for a while now.

Royale with Cheese · 26-04-2021 10:37am

Not on any of the preview programs but I use the Android cloud gaming app somewhat regularly and I have the Xbox app for iPad and sometimes use that for local streaming so they possibly used that info to determine I'd actually use the invite.

Krusty_Clown · 26-04-2021 3:27pm

Tried it on my ageing laptop (Intel i5, 4GB Ram, Wifi) and it was unplayable. Tried on my work laptop (i7, 20Gb Ram - wired) and it was almost as smooth as local play. I had been playing through the Halo series using mouse/keyboard on the Xbox, but unfortunately cloud streaming doesn't seem to support pass/through keyboard and mouse, which is a shame, as it would be really handy when travelling, to just bind mouse/keyboard. Hopefully some day in the future. I'm assuming it's one login at a time and you can't play via the cloud at the same time as local play?

Fingleberries · 26-04-2021 4:32pm

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Tried it on my ageing laptop (Intel i5, 4GB Ram, Wifi) and it was unplayable. Tried on my work laptop (i7, 20Gb Ram - wired) and it was almost as smooth as local play. I had been playing through the Halo series using mouse/keyboard on the Xbox, but unfortunately cloud streaming doesn't seem to support pass/through keyboard and mouse, which is a shame, as it would be really handy when travelling, to just bind mouse/keyboard. Hopefully some day in the future. I'm assuming it's one login at a time and you can't play via the cloud at the same time as local play?

I was trying on an old Surface Pro 4, i5, 4GB RAM and it played decently - a few pop-in or low resolution moments. Connected controller by USB rather than Bluetooth. I played more sedate games (Sea of Thieves, Minecraft Dungeons) but also took Forza Horizon 4 for a spin and held my own in online races. I might try Halo at some point - but I'm crap online at Halo to begin with, so won't be a fair criticism of xCloud to blame it for that

For playing in two places at once. Yeah. I tried that, too.
Looks like there was a recent update on Xbox about presence.

So, you can be playing games in one location / device and watching media on another device with the same account.
If you are playing a game in one location, then start playing a game in another location, it will prompt you to select which location you want to continue playing.

To work with that I've got 3 years of GPU each sorted for me and for the kiddo thanks to some tips from the Boardsies here.

Krusty_Clown · 26-04-2021 4:48pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

I was trying on an old Surface Pro 4, i5, 4GB RAM and it played decently - a few pop-in or low resolution moments. Connected controller by USB rather than Bluetooth. I played more sedate games (Sea of Thieves, Minecraft Dungeons) but also took Forza Horizon 4 for a spin and held my own in online races. I might try Halo at some point - but I'm crap online at Halo to begin with, so won't be a fair criticism of xCloud to blame it for that

For playing in two places at once. Yeah. I tried that, too.
Looks like there was a recent update on Xbox about presence.

So, you can be playing games in one location / device and watching media on another device with the same account.
If you are playing a game in one location, then start playing a game in another location, it will prompt you to select which location you want to continue playing.

To work with that I've got 3 years of GPU each sorted for me and for the kiddo thanks to some tips from the Boardsies here.

I've been playing through the Halo campaign. Might try a wired network connection as the Wireless card/driver in that laptop is old (11 years), but it was still getting 60Mbps. Can't get back in to the beta today anyway. Wondering if my work VPN triggered a different geo-location that they're not happy with? :eek:

27-04-2021 9:27pm

Has anyone tried playing it on the browser on xbox or even olaystation or nintendo switch?

I could try myself but I'm lazy and thought maybe someone has already tried?

recyclops · 28-04-2021 11:33am

on the switch you can get onto the page but it wont load up the games

-Toppy- · 28-04-2021 12:36pm

Tried in my Ipad - its okaay so far little laggy (siro 1g with 5ghz network in house)
Fine for simple games but anything that needs quick reaction not a chance

Vudgie · 30-04-2021 5:13pm

I tried it on my iPad but found it pretty unplayable mostly due to lag between the controller and the iPad, there is a split second delay which makes it very frustrating.

01-05-2021 9:01am

-Toppy- wrote: »

Tried in my Ipad - its okaay so far little laggy (siro 1g with 5ghz network in house)
Fine for simple games but anything that needs quick reaction not a chance

Yeah I've never felt its good enough for racing games, even on android. Tried out dirt 5 on PC which normally is a very easy game, usually I jump to 1st place after an initial battle and stay there to the finish. On xCloud I'm crashing all over the place. Same happens with Forza. We're probably talking milliseconds of lag but its enough to ruin your whole game.

Fingleberries · 02-05-2021 11:38am

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I've never felt its good enough for racing games, even on android. Tried out dirt 5 on PC which normally is a very easy game, usually I jump to 1st place after an initial battle and stay there to the finish. On xCloud I'm crashing all over the place. Same happens with Forza. We're probably talking milliseconds of lag but its enough to ruin your whole game.

I found that first too, when I was connecting by Bluetooth (it adds a little latency at times). Switching to plugging directly to the USB (on android), it takes that slight delay out.

Sure, there's still the chance of latency depending on your network connection, but it removes one less thing that I can use to excuse my general crap-ness at Racing and FPS games

feargantae · 03-05-2021 12:36pm

Disappointed as to how bad this runs for me. I have Gigabit Internet and get about 300 down on Wifi, and over 900 down on 5G but yet it's barely playable. Something like Sims 4 that doesn't require much response time is okay at best, but aside from that games are unplayable. I'm raging cos I'm a Stadia user playing in 4K and that works a treat.

I won't hold it against Microsoft though as i realise it's a beta, and I'm happy to have been selected in general cos I've only had the Series S/GamePass for a week!

Treppen · 03-05-2021 6:30pm

feargantae wrote: »

Disappointed as to how bad this runs for me. I have Gigabit Internet and get about 300 down on Wifi, and over 900 down on 5G but yet it's barely playable. Something like Sims 4 that doesn't require much response time is okay at best, but aside from that games are unplayable. I'm raging cos I'm a Stadia user playing in 4K and that works a treat.

I won't hold it against Microsoft though as i realise it's a beta, and I'm happy to have been selected in general cos I've only had the Series S/GamePass for a week!

Jeez that sounds bad given your speed available.

What's it like on an android phone with the Gamepass app? That was the first platform out with xcloud so should be ahead of the game.

feargantae · 04-05-2021 12:42pm

Treppen wrote: »

Jeez that sounds bad given your speed available.

What's it like on an android phone with the Gamepass app? That was the first platform out with xcloud so should be ahead of the game.

Definitely better on the app, but for me the small screen is a no go.

Weirdly enough remote play works way better than xcloud so i guess it is Microsoft servers

Grumpypants · 04-05-2021 8:20pm

I got an invite to an old account so I just tried logging into xbox.com/play today with my main game pass ultimate subbed account and was logged in. Can stream through the Chrome browser now too.

XBox Game Pass Cloud Streaming

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