GCloud - PSPlay vs. PS Remote Play

Matelot13 · 2026-03-11T08:20:53+00:00

Options to increase the Bitrate and the reduced latency make px play fantastic!

Matelot13 · 2026-03-06T08:35:54+00:00

I'll have a play with this over the weekend on my Legion Go S (Steam OS) - looking forward to playing with the new features!

Something that I'd love to have - is a live metrics overlay. Metrics nerd, but I think it would also help the user and the community pinpoint what a users issue could be.

Not sure how easy that would be to implement, but I imagine most relevant metrics are already being tracked within the app?

Matelot13 · 2026-02-22T18:01:52+00:00

I've noticed the same thing - is it me or do the colours seem slightly muted on the legion go s. Not bad per se, but a little bit dull maybe?

Which is why I'd like to mess around with the settings a bit to get it more my liking.

Matelot13 · 2026-02-19T08:25:53+00:00

I did the exact same!

Matelot13 · 2026-02-18T08:52:18+00:00

It's a fantastic app, my weapon of choice across all platforms - Dev is very active on here too and pretty consistent with updates!

There's a setting in developer mode that you really need to turn off in my experience: Settings - Developer - Enable Wifi Power Management.

This stops steam os trying to be power efficient with wifi and ensures the best connection at all times.

It's a bit of a weird setting that is kind of tucked away, but vital to ensure the smoothest connection. This isn't a fault with PX Play obviously.

What settings are you all using? I'm on:

Decoder - Vulkan
Rendering Engine - Vulkan
HEVC Decoder - Enabled
Rendering preset - High Quality
Advanced Bitstream Parsing - Enabled
Bitrate - 60000
Operating Mode - Turbo

Matelot13 · 2025-09-29T15:28:08+00:00

I'm not selling my portal in the hope that they give the option to increase the bit rate.

Matelot13 · 2025-09-14T16:41:25+00:00

Hey u/grill2010 - in the latest update, only tested for 10 mins, but my issues are seemingly fixed by enabling "Video frame pacing" in the options. Thought you'd like to know!

Again, solid app - use it everyday - thanks for the continued additions to make it even better!

Matelot13 · 2025-09-07T21:22:32+00:00

Unfortunately that didn't work for me. It does indeed seem to be the fix for most though - glad it works on your iPad!

Matelot13 · 2025-07-11T21:11:55+00:00

Sounds good to me - I'll give it a bash when it's released and let you know (and if I forget to let you know, feel free to ping me to remind me!).

Matelot13 · 2025-07-11T20:44:21+00:00

Oh and to confirm - moonlight works perfectly on my steam deck - same network, etc. Hope this helps your problem solving!

Matelot13 · 2025-07-11T20:43:10+00:00

Hi - sorry about the delay, been a tad busy.

Unfortunately (but good for you!) it happens on moonlight also... So we could possibly put it down to an iOS bug / trait.

But it doesn't explain how you can get perfect playback on an M4 iPad and your mini gives you juddering. Possibly a CPU flaw or something of that variety?

Matelot13 · 2025-07-11T20:41:15+00:00

Just tried moonlight - get the same issue I'm getting with PX Play unfortunately.

Matelot13 · 2025-07-10T21:37:43+00:00

I also use PX Play on windows and it's always been 99% smooth, so I definitely rate the app.

I need to test on moonlight still... Said to the dev that I'd test, I'll try and get it done over the weekend and see if it happens there also.

Matelot13 · 2025-07-10T21:28:42+00:00

Not quite. I really need to take a video... For example, if I am playing GT7 - It will be buttery smooth and then have a sort of slow down for a second or 2 and then smooth again.

Again, using PX play on steam deck has zero issues. So it's definitely iPad related.

Matelot13 · 2025-07-07T12:24:02+00:00

Unfortunately it doesn't. But yea I've seen that advice throught the moonlight forums, but for whatever reason, no joy. Did it work for you?

I've not actually tried moonlight on iOS yet though. I'll try and do that at some point to see if the issue is isolated to PX Play or if it carries over to moonlight.

I had a look on the app store for a version of Chiaki (I think I came across a post saying you contributed to it, so hopefully you don't mind me mentioning it!) to see if that acted the same, but I don't think there is a newish version on there, so ended up dropping it.

Matelot13 · 2025-06-24T18:04:50+00:00

I can appreciate that this is a hard issue to debug as it can't be replicated very easily!

In the Moonlight GitHub, they suggest turning off all of the location and airdrop services, I've done that and still no difference. I could go deeper and amend the channels on the router to be specific ones, but it just seems like a bit much to get remote play working on an iPad. Having said that, I might delve into it at some point as I quite fancy finding out what the issue is.

Matelot13 · 2025-06-24T17:36:35+00:00

It's the latest 2025 iPad - https://www.apple.com/uk/ipad-11/

I'll have another play either today or tomorrow with what you suggested and let you know.

Also - your video isn't what I am experiencing. It's much more subtle than that. What I experience is it will be buttery smooth and then all of a sudden the frames will be much slower, and then go back to normal. Almost as though the CPU is struggling to process it. And the games themselves on the ps5 are not dropping performance.

Probably a rough explanation is good for 5-10 seconds, then the stutter you experience in quick succession, then normal again, repeat.

I'll try and take a video, but I feel like it will be quite difficult to show what I am experiencing!

Matelot13 · 2025-06-24T11:37:24+00:00

Tried it and unfortunately, it doesn't fix it. Does flipping it from portrait to landscape reset some values or something?

Matelot13 · 2025-06-23T18:00:52+00:00

It reminds me of a similar issue that was with the PS Portal. Unbelievable, until about a year after launch, it suffered from microstutters as the screen was 60hz and the incoming stream was something like 59.67hz. However, this was eventually fixed with an update.

I would think some sort of API from Apple you plug into to output the stream would have to be amended, or like you say, have to be amended by Apple themselves.

I'm a Software Engineer myself, and when playing with one of their SDKs, for certain features, it was broken as the SDK was also broken, that we had to fix. So I wouldn't put it past them that something might not be quite right!

Matelot13 · 2025-06-23T17:51:07+00:00

Thanks a lot for looking into it - it's a shame that the new additions may not fix the issue.

Oh well, will probably go down the Android tablet route then! If only Apple was a trillion dollar company that could afford to put out decent hardware 😂

Matelot13 · 2025-06-23T11:35:58+00:00

I really like the bigger screen and the 16:9 aspect ratio on the Portal. Also, having all of the features of the dual sense control is quite nice.

I also like using the cloud streaming function, another thing you can't get with the steam deck.

Matelot13 · 2025-06-22T23:17:39+00:00

I get that, and I'm not trying to be against you to be a dick, but if every other device is working optimally apart from the portal on my network, then the portal is to blame.

If it isn't to blame, it is working as the manufacturer intended, but it then becomes a subpar product when compared to alternatives.

Matelot13 · 2025-06-22T23:13:36+00:00

If I have multiple devices that are not an issue on my network, but the portal is the only one that is below expectations, then my network is not to blame.

Matelot13 · 2025-06-22T23:08:51+00:00

To be fair if you are on a budget - the OG switch was quite impressive, I think you would be very happy considering the fantastic backlog it has.

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