How to improve visuals of PlayStation Remote play on PC

[LaboonTheWhale]

So I decided to try out the remote play for the PS4 on PC. It boots and connects but the image is blurry. I have a powerline adapter going to my PC that is about 80Mb/s down and 25 up. the PS4 on the other hand was running wireless and that was getting about 10 down. 

 

I knew that the PS4 has a weak wireless adapter so I switch and plugged the ethernet into the PS4 and went wireless with the PC. I am getting about 20Mb/s down and the quality is still very blurry and comparing it to the TV quality in my room it looks a lot worse. 

 

Do I just need to have both devices on great internet speeds to improve this? 

[ZimFreak]

8 minutes ago, LaboonTheWhale said:

So I decided to try out the remote play for the PS4 on PC. It boots and connects but the image is blurry. I have a powerline adapter going to my PC that is about 80Mb/s down and 25 up. the PS4 on the other hand was running wireless and that was getting about 10 down. 

 

I knew that the PS4 has a weak wireless adapter so I switch and plugged the ethernet into the PS4 and went wireless with the PC. I am getting about 20Mb/s down and the quality is still very blurry and comparing it to the TV quality in my room it looks a lot worse. 

 

Do I just need to have both devices on great internet speeds to improve this? 

I've never used PS4 streaming but I would imagine that hardline ethernet connections on both would be almost required for a fast, solid connection.

[pwn_intended]

10 minutes ago, LaboonTheWhale said:

Do I just need to have both devices on great internet speeds to improve this? 

Bingo. The video quality is 100% based on the bandwidth between the 2 devices.

If both are on your home network and wired, the picture should be pretty good. But the second your computer is on a different network that the ps4, OR one of them is running on (questionable) wifi, you're gonna have a bad day.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Internet speed should have nothing to do with it though.

[LaboonTheWhale]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Internet speed should have nothing to do with it though.

Wouldnt i though? Its like streaming, if you have poor internet connection and try to stream 1080p, its going to lag up or you need to bump down in quality. 

 

Wouldnt this apply to to the PS4 remote play? 

[pwn_intended]

7 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Internet speed should have nothing to do with it though.

Internet speed is literally the only factor here.

[Techicolors]

there is a way to change the quality of the stream, but there's not much else you can do. it's not a big deal if you try playing on your smartphone or tablet as the blurriness is kinda resolved 

[kirashi]

7 minutes ago, LaboonTheWhale said:

Wouldnt i though? Its like streaming, if you have poor internet connection and try to stream 1080p, its going to lag up or you need to bump down in quality. 

 

Wouldnt this apply to to the PS4 remote play? 

3 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

Internet speed is literally the only factor here.

Absolutely not, not locally anyway - local streaming (which is what PS4 Remote play uses) has NOTHING to do with your internet connection.

If OP was talking about PS Now, then yes, internet speed plays a huge factor since you're streaming games from Sony over the internet.

 

Local streaming is entirely based on the connection and hardware sitting between your PC and your PS4, and your PC's ability to decode the video stream.

That said, things like a poor quality router/modem or a potato PC will affect streaming, but even on the Atom-based Kangaroo MiniPC it works fine.

If your PS4 is connected via WiFi though, you're going to have streaming anomalies - sometimes it'll be fine, others it will look like crap.

Powerline AV may also affect the stability of the stream, since it fluctuates depending on your household wiring.

 

If you can, try hardwiring your PS4 and PC directly to your router and seeing what results you get.

If it's still crappy, something else is to blame. Otherwise, you'll know what the issue is right away.

[pyrojoe34]

3 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

Internet speed is literally the only factor here.

INTRAnet not internet. The local network speeds matter, not internet speeds.

[LaboonTheWhale]

5 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Absolutely not, not locally anyway - local streaming (which is what PS4 Remote play uses) has NOTHING to do with your internet connection.

If OP was talking about PS Now, then yes, internet speed plays a huge factor since you're streaming games from Sony over the internet.

 

Local streaming is entirely based on the connection and hardware sitting between your PC and your PS4, and your PC's ability to decode the video stream.

That said, things like a poor quality router/modem or a potato PC will affect streaming, but even on the Atom-based Kangaroo MiniPC it works fine.

If your PS4 is connected via WiFi though, you're going to have streaming anomalies - sometimes it'll be fine, others it will look like crap.

Powerline AV may also affect the stability of the stream, since it fluctuates depending on your household wiring.

 

If you can, try hardwiring your PS4 and PC directly to your router and seeing what results you get.

If it's still crappy, something else is to blame. Otherwise, you'll know what the issue is right away.

TIL. Ill try to get another powerline adapter (as i cannot go directly into my router due to different floors) and see how that goes. 

[pwn_intended]

2 minutes ago, kirashi said:

1 minute ago, pyrojoe34 said:

INTRAnet not internet. The local network speeds matter, not internet speeds.

 

2 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Absolutely not, not locally anyway - local streaming (which is what PS4 Remote play uses) has NOTHING to do with your internet connection.

 

Remote play lets you play away from your home network as well, so internet speed is absolutely an issue. Especially the upload speed which so many ISP's limit oh so much.

If you look back to my first post, I think you'll agree that I understand what you're saying.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

Remote play lets you play away from your home network as well, so internet speed is absolutely an issue. Especially the upload speed which so many ISP's limit oh so much.

If you look back to my first post, I think you'll agree that I understand what you're saying.

The way OP is describing their setup implies they're doing this over the local network, not over the internet.

 

However I wouldn't put it past Sony to do the same thing Team Viewer does and uses the internet anyway.

[kirashi]

7 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

Remote play lets you play away from your home network as well, so internet speed is absolutely an issue. Especially the upload speed which so many ISP's limit oh so much.

If you look back to my first post, I think you'll agree that I understand what you're saying.

It does? How do you get remote play to work outside your physical network without the use of a VPN?

Using remote play outside your LAN doesn't appear to be possible, or at least isn't advertised by Sony ... for some reason...

TODAY I LEARNED: Apparently, you can use Remote Play outside your LAN... Good job on advertising this feature, Sony! NOT

 

UPDATE 2: Apparently, this feature only works for remote play using the PS Vita.

Unless someone knows how to do it over PC, and would be kind enough to share this information...

[Bleedingyamato]

7 hours ago, LaboonTheWhale said:

Wouldnt i though? Its like streaming, if you have poor internet connection and try to stream 1080p, its going to lag up or you need to bump down in quality. 

 

Wouldnt this apply to to the PS4 remote play? 

Did you set the remote play quality settings to the highest available?  I think that would be 720p and whatever the best framerate option is.

 

1080p remote play seems to have been added to the remote play program but only for the PS4 Pro.

 

Also, while I realize this may reduce the convenience I have noticed that at least for me anyway it stopped working over wifi so I have to have my desktop plugged into Ethernet for remote play to work.  Otherwise it keeps disconnecting.

 

So having both your ps4 and computer connected to Ethernet might help it work better. 

[Cyan101]

On 11/9/2016 at 5:13 AM, pwn_intended said:

Bingo. The video quality is 100% based on the bandwidth between the 2 devices.

If both are on your home network and wired, the picture should be pretty good. But the second your computer is on a different network that the ps4, OR one of them is running on (questionable) wifi, you're gonna have a bad day.

Old thread sorry, but I have a great router and have connected the PS4 and my PC with ethernet cables, it still looks 720pish if not worse than it did over wifi tbh

[seanondemand]

In my experience Remote Play is suuuuper sensitive to having a solid network connection. I've played around with it a little - with both devices wired in, everything works pretty well, and I can bump the connection to the 720p version, but when I tried having the PS4 wireless, it went to hot garbage. When I went to the PC wireless, it was.. okay, but it seems at random moments (maybe the neighbours microwaving some popcorn) it would get real bad. I actually had better luck with the iPad, maybe it's on a better 5ghz connection.

 

Also, if you don't disable HDR, it looks terrible on remote play.

[WereCatf]

On 11/9/2016 at 12:09 AM, kirashi said:

UPDATE 2: Apparently, this feature only works for remote play using the PS Vita.

 

Unless someone knows how to do it over PC, and would be kind enough to share this information...

It works just fine over the Internet on PC as well. Just use the same PS4 Remote Play - app. I would know, I have used it myself.

 

EDIT: Whoa, whoops. Apparently someone necroed an old thread and I just simply replied there without looking at the dates.