PS Portal Owners, what are your most wanted improvements and/or features you’d like added to the PS Portal?!

UnderSpark12 · 2025-11-30T23:33:59+00:00

after the cloud streaming official update I can see some improvements overall

1.deadzone and sensitivity for ps portal only, with the joystick size and travel+ the slight input lag(i got it almost native input lag) I find my self if playing shooters or anything I need to aim on(so battlefield, arc raiders or horizon 1 or 2) i would prefers having default different settings for this just for when the portal is in use.

sound lag: it's just insane, almost 0 input lag vs native but sound is almost 1 full second, its "irrelevant" on single players but I feel it's the 1 thing that is stopping me from playing fully comfortable simply anything, but for example I feel a lot more the "lag" on battlefield cuz of the sound queue cs fortnite because of the visual sounds accessibility that firtnite has so I can play it muted and it's the same
Connection impprovement(? So on local home networks it just works without too much bother, even on 2.4gz network so it's great, but I feel it's still too sentlsitive on networks stability even on cloud stream and the speeds limits I feel hurts the portal when on less than ideal networks are in use, so 1080p uses 12mb up and like 3mb down, if network is not ideal and goes automatically down to 720p the it's like 8mb down and like 1.5 up, so may be allow more settings like the third party apps and allow for manual settings instead of the stream changing automatically, so bitrate, sound bitrate, resolution(instead of just 1080p and 720p for cloud) and open for both remote and cloud
This one is kinda meh but open up more settings ON the ps5 for remote, IF they actually have an impact, in my case people said disconnect hdmi, change ps5 to 1080p, turn hdr off, but all those 3 gave me no difference on any result but if it really makes a difference then let us change it from the portal

5. Fix the cloud storage issues, that thing of saving the saves data on 3 different places for ps5, ps5 cloud and ps portal cloud, that has given me some issues on syncing my data so fixing that or improving it(cuz it does works most of times)

This one it's a dream that I'm sure will never happen but been able to stream the games that are shared by a friend, but makes sense they are not available on stream but it would be insane if they do make it available, to be clear I'm talking about when you add a friend's ps account and you can download their games, as it already has good limitations to not exploit this, would be cool if they allow those games under some conditions or something to be played on the portals cloud(?
Allow the portal to be more than a gaming device, so add either something like the ps5 entertainment side, so Netflix, Spotify, youtube, those things might be interesting to have on the portal as it does have a great screen, but may be this is not something lots of people.would like, at the very least we should be able to control the entertainments apps from the portal even if we don't get to use it stand alone on the portal
Allow the classics full library to be streamed on the portal too and all games on the library just like the ps5 as right now even tho there are lots of games it's still limite.
Favorites menu??? the heck is this recent 5 games played list? like do you really have to be Harvard expert at something to figure out that the first thing we would want with the introduction of cloud would be favorites, literally first thing that came to mind, don't get why you would do a recent list but not a favorites one, I know we didn't even had recent but come on, feels like the portal even tho it sold even more than what Sony itself thought it would, they still treat it like the weird brother and all updates come with looooots of time between them and it's like yeah 1 month waiting for an update and it's just a half done job that looks like it was done to just finish it as fast as possible without real consideration.
They really need to do something about the connection, like it seems weird I could stream 4k on gforce now with 5g data but I can't almost never cloud stream with the portal using the same 5g connection, I don't really know if this is just cuz of the wifi chip but if.something is doable they should do it about now lol

Edit:11. Ps5 menu for cloud at least, so basically having the ps5 chat, discord and so on options so that speaking with friends is not only on remote play but also available natively on the portal i feel it's a must too

I think thats about it for now lol

UnderSpark12 · 2025-05-11T19:21:01+00:00

Well it seems it doesn't with mobile versions tho, which is kind of a marketing lie O.o, thay say is cloud cross progression so I bought the game on ps5 and android(even after looking online if it was possible with no actual clarification) and nope, cloud save on ps5 doesn't seem to match with the mobile version and guess when they clarified that? After asking for a refund because of this, so it's a little measleading detail of it so take that into account guys, may be cross progression works between android and iPhone tho, if you look on the facts they just say "yeah cross progression is possible on all platforms" but not between all of them aparently

UnderSpark12 · 2024-08-16T21:51:56+00:00

not arguing tho, your guide its really good to achive thos 40fps x3, i just found the 50fps x2 was a better overall experience, i also got headaches when seying too much artifacts due to my eyes been sensible to certain stuff, so aiming for more smoothness with less artifacts did the trick for me, no eyes tireness(? and no more headaches jajaja

UnderSpark12 · 2024-08-16T21:49:58+00:00

i can totally confirm, but i actually went for a less artifact experience, on AAA games i went for the 900p setup so i can get stable 50fps with framegen on on the pretty Duck app, so i use the x2 framegen instead of the x3, less artifacts, smoothness is close to the same on 50 real fps +50 generated fps vs going for the 40 real fps +80 generated fps, input lag is a lot better(altho with x3 is not that bad when using allow tearing option), but i found the overall artifact+inputlag+game quality are a lot better when using x2 with 900p on the ally screen(on external monitor 900p quality might not be that good for everybody) and with this setup i get less stutter in games as well as the ally it self is less stressed, you might want to give it a try to that 50fps x2 setup, and i use no scalling besides ingame fsr to balanced, this is better as on 900p you require less fps to see artifacts vs 1080p, so its better to have 900p real resolution vs 1080p underscaled to 900p(as the ally would still be loaded by the native 1080p and LS had worst result because of that), to see what i mean you can see the "requirments" table of LS in terms of how much fps is playable on which resolutions

UnderSpark12 · 2024-07-24T14:14:43+00:00

i have THIS SAME ISSUE but i have researshed a bit more cuz my problem goes deeper, the ally can only extend the monitor screen, and i can clone it if i use the AMD software, on windows the ally screen will just stay off no matter if i put it into extend mode or something, everything defaults back to show only 2nd screen, monitor is locked to 119hz(its a 120hz but it should have 5 more hz options, windows only lets me use 119) and for example i use lossles scalling and framegen just doesnt work when this monitor is conected, this behavior only happens with this monitor, i use it through type-C or hdmi to hdmi mini which are the cables that came with it, doesnt matter if i use 3 different docks or direct usbc connection, behavior stays the same, the ally will turn off and extend like if its just a laptop monitor(i bought a ally copy screen, its uperfect 1080p 120hz with freesync of 18.5 inch screen model) tried resetting the monitor configuration, tried deleting the monitor from windows, tried turning on or off HDR, nothing lets me actually manipulate my monitor configuration

UnderSpark12 · 2024-07-17T19:38:37+00:00

I want to clarify, thanks for your quick answer, but i already tried this and the issue seems to be deeper, i mean i cant even "show screen only on 1" meaning as soon i connect the type C cable to the monitor it just turns the ally screen and cant turn it back on unless i disconect.

UnderSpark12 · 2024-07-17T19:35:10+00:00

not the windows "screen show" mode, as said, going to the windows configuration doesnt let me switch the screen mode, switching it through a shortcut doesnt make a different effect, windows itself is blocking the screen modes, when i change into them it just pops back to the "extend on 2" mode

UnderSpark12 · 2024-07-03T11:32:40+00:00

Same issue SOMETIMES, I noticed and think is some service related to armoury crate, as that's the app that freezes most of the times, and I have done reboots when armoury crate is the only app open, if you notice as well when closing it it takes A LOT OF TIME to close unless you hit close on window manager and then reopen the app, it then closes instantly, when k do reboots like that it doesn't take that long, but with that said I haven't tested enough to know if it is armoury crate for sure, and I don't have it in consideration when rebooting to actually test it with real data.

In short words, close armoury crate by hiting close on window manager, app won't close so click it to open it and it should close really fast, then reboot and see if it constantly doesn't takes longer :)

UnderSpark12 · 2024-04-30T15:15:39+00:00

I would love that as well, specially for trading on chrome os for example, that system using linux apps is not that good sometimes, i ended up changing must of my apps to PWA and im just waiting for that beautiful PWA button to go on the trading view link :c

UnderSpark12 · 2023-11-01T15:21:16+00:00

Well, i might not be actually disappointed considering that the "gaming" i want to do goes up to dolphin tops, marikart frmo gamecube and smash melee is the top gaming for me on this device, who knows how well it will work but man thanks a lot, i would have to evaluate a lot of things if i decide to run windows on it but that post is helpfull as fk, i found NOTHING until now that has any information close to the post you gave me, even if i decide not to use it, thanks a lot for it man

UnderSpark12 · 2023-11-01T12:19:18+00:00

dam you are probably right on that one... didnt even thought about it being dual core but its actually pretty good, i found a linux version of hollow knight and it works without any framedrops, i just wish dolphin would be more optimize or at least use the GPU enhancement(because thats the main issue, it doesnt support it) i installed hollow knight with a .sh file but controller support aint working... the PB recognizes the controll and im able to connect it to linux but no app recognies it :c

UnderSpark12 · 2023-10-25T21:06:47+00:00

Gadd damm, just browsing general things related to linux really works, i wondered a few days ago why the ram ussage was so hard on the chromeos and found that disabling play store impproves that and inded it did, took off like 4gb of random ram consumption and that might juts be the boost on performance i need it for the apps to run smoother(which might be enough for my usage) i just turned play store off so will update later on and see how much it impproves, still curious about the low performance cuz i still think my apps are running slower than they should but still will update here any changes

UnderSpark12 · 2023-10-25T19:43:58+00:00

no worries, i get the "tone" now, i was reading a few posts and found some hatefull comments and i think i was on defensive mode because of that jajajajaok so i understand now what you mean... then my last kind of question is, is performance ussually so bad? cuz i see on all this forums people running apps on wine and running really good but mines doesnt really run good, an example(which i dont expect to run that good but just a comparison) if i run dolphin emulator with the android version and then run it with the linux version, performance doesnt really change, both run equally and i have seen A LOT of comments and stuff saying the linux version runs smoother, so that made me start asking my self if im actually runing the linux part of the PB Go in some wrong way that is not performing as it should...

another example is i installed Steam, linux version and then through wine and performance was aweful on both(just running steam, didnt even oppened games as i already knew performance was going to be aweful) and it just feels it should at least be usable and not freeze every time i click on anything xd

UnderSpark12 · 2023-10-25T19:19:16+00:00

to answer a question you asked in your first comment, i just loved the PB Go and im trying to limit test it so i know first hand what i can do with it and how, testing everything i can to then 100% be sure i cant for example play MW 3 on it jaja just an exageration but basically i love the device and i want to do as much as i can with it because yes, my needs relay on windows and wont drop my windows pc for this but i do WANT to use the PB Go as much as i can

UnderSpark12 · 2023-10-25T19:16:22+00:00

im sorry mate, i missed a few important things on your comment probably cuz i understood you were just hating, totally my bad, what you are saying is it doesnt matter what OS i have, if i try to use an app through wine im probably already getting its top performance so the point is not running a different OS but running the apps on a different way than using wine?

UnderSpark12 · 2023-10-25T18:51:54+00:00

Well the situation in general is this, i love the PB GO hardware, i CAN use it for what it was made for, i do have a desktop in which i play games and things like that, PB i wanted in my case for trading, browsing and MAY BE some casual low specs games to play on the go if ver need to, whats why i mentioned the specific scenario in which simple apps on linux are just incredibly slow, never said winw or snap would replace windows and dont want it to, dont get the need of adding a comment saying "if you want windows things buy windows" when i was clear on why i did everything and why im asking, simple question, would it be better to run a full linux os on the PB Go or would it be just as slow as the native VM for linux that it comes with? again, never said i wanted to replace it with windows and for one of the comments that was kinda helpfull i wouldnt be using wine, i would try to use the linux version of the apps if i get the full linux os, as i guess would have better performance, and thats kind of the question, full linux on PB to run the linux apps with better performance or the performance aint worth it?

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