Delay and quality

[Atimo [ᓚᘏᗢ]]

Me and my friend tired 2 games so far, connection was good but he said that the picture is pixelated like when you are watching a stream with bad bitrate and the contorls have a small delay. Is there a setting menu where I can config the settings (like bitrate and picture quality), it's becouse the play together is still in beta, or simply my internet connection is bad.

[Liandri]

Same here. Image quality issues.

We both have 100mbps. Tried changing every setting related to Remote Play, on both ends. No change.

[The cake is a lie]

The host should have a high outbound bandwidth.

I've 100/8 mbps but isn't enough. Sometimes the outbound traffic increments to 16mbps. (The result is lag for the clients).

[Liandri]

My connection is symmetric 100/100.

[GuRu Asaki]

Delay in the Client for Player 2...

Is Normal... This is nothing New, when Team Viewer, Quick Assist,
& Remote Desktop Connection comes to mind from like Years before...

STEAM having this built in, is not anything New, compared to
so many Years ago...

In the case of this... The Service has actually never gotten improved...

In every Aspect...

Player 1, should be able to play perfectly fine, Player 2 on the other hand,
is where all the problems come in...

Delay in Controller Use, Delay in Game Play being shown...
Things like this are effected by a Service like this...

Screen Tearing, & such, accure...

This has been a problem since like Windows XP was around,
possibly even sooner then that... Today we have Games with
a lot more Power Demanding Requirements, which only makes
the Situation a lot worst...

Ways To Improve the Service:

1.) Really good Connection for both Players... (Router / Modem / PC / Internet mbps)
2.) Make sure between both Players that everything connected
is Wired... Computer, Monitor, Router, Modem, all of this stuff...
3.) Play Games that are not extremely Power Demanding on the PC...
4.) Play Games that you know you get good Quality FPS in...


I got a Game called Totemori, it runs very, very fluid, it offers Multi-Player,
& it's very simple to setup, & easy to play... It has Replayability, & quite
a fun Game... It has virtually 0 Problems with it, & runs nearly flawless
on the PC... Though it has 0 Internet structure for the Game, it now
Supports Remote Play With Friends, & if anything will be playable this
Game should be a perfect Game to run testing on... It supports a wide
Range of Resolutions, & such... & it's now Free To Play by anyone...

If you can't get Totemori to work, then trying to play a Game like Tomb Raider,
or say? Street Fighter V, or Mortal Kombat 11, or some other Game like
The Evil Within, would most likely be out of the Question, o_@

[Liandri]

Originally posted by GuRu Asaki:

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Nothing new here. You are missing the point I think. The issue is a defective video encoder used by Steam, or certain circumstances that make its output be of very low quality (blocky pixelation) regardless of host and client settings.

[Chack]

Yes, i have the same problem, shuttering, lag controls, my host friend have a good internet, symmetric, we configure the remote play setting in the lowest, but keeps the shuttering of Cuphead. Later we tried and app named "Parsec", this do the same of Remote Play of Steam, but surprise! Not shuttering, not lag, so smoothly. And extra, i have obs studio running a stream on twitch while i play with my host friend, and i'll tried to host with 5 mbps of internet, and the left to obs, and my guest and i, played so comfortable, so yes, i think the servers steam uses are bad, teamviewer have better servers, because i dont see so much shuttering like in steam, i believe we are a tiny mayority of this problem, but keep the hope of steam, they upgrade his servers.

[kewkich]

Originally posted by zack1440:

Yes, i have the same problem, shuttering, lag controls, my host friend have a good internet, symmetric, we configure the remote play setting in the lowest, but keeps the shuttering of Cuphead. Later we tried and app named "Parsec", this do the same of Remote Play of Steam, but surprise! Not shuttering, not lag, so smoothly. And extra, i have obs studio running a stream on twitch while i play with my host friend, and i'll tried to host with 5 mbps of internet, and the left to obs, and my guest and i, played so comfortable, so yes, i think the servers steam uses are bad, teamviewer have better servers, because i dont see so much shuttering like in steam, i believe we are a tiny mayority of this problem, but keep the hope of steam, they upgrade his servers.

Yeh Dude,totally agree.Tried parsec the other day it was as smooth as my jokes at the bar last night..But if you are far away from your friend,let's say your frind is in europe and u are in na..U will have just a bad time..The input lag will be a problem..Guys,really recommend u using parsec rather than this stutter remote play

[Chack]

Originally posted by TarouShota:

Originally posted by zack1440:

Yes, i have the same problem, shuttering, lag controls, my host friend have a good internet, symmetric, we configure the remote play setting in the lowest, but keeps the shuttering of Cuphead. Later we tried and app named "Parsec", this do the same of Remote Play of Steam, but surprise! Not shuttering, not lag, so smoothly. And extra, i have obs studio running a stream on twitch while i play with my host friend, and i'll tried to host with 5 mbps of internet, and the left to obs, and my guest and i, played so comfortable, so yes, i think the servers steam uses are bad, teamviewer have better servers, because i dont see so much shuttering like in steam, i believe we are a tiny mayority of this problem, but keep the hope of steam, they upgrade his servers.

Yeh Dude,totally agree.Tried parsec the other day it was as smooth as my jokes at the bar last night..But if you are far away from your friend,let's say your frind is in europe and u are in na..U will have just a bad time..The input lag will be a problem..Guys,really recommend u using parsec rather than this stutter remote play

It makes sense a friend on europe and the another guy in NA have input lag or a some shuttering, but in my case, all my friends are of my country (or near my country) so Parsec is a life saver for me, because playing Remote Play on steam, give me so much hype to play with friends in all local games, but we are in different places. I hope steam keeps working on his remote play, and we can play with people on europe without of problems, who knows?

[kewkich]

Originally posted by zack1440:

Originally posted by TarouShota:

Yeh Dude,totally agree.Tried parsec the other day it was as smooth as my jokes at the bar last night..But if you are far away from your friend,let's say your frind is in europe and u are in na..U will have just a bad time..The input lag will be a problem..Guys,really recommend u using parsec rather than this stutter remote play

It makes sense a friend on europe and the another guy in NA have input lag or a some shuttering, but in my case, all my friends are of my country (or near my country) so Parsec is a life saver for me, because playing Remote Play on steam, give me so much hype to play with friends in all local games, but we are in different places. I hope steam keeps working on his remote play, and we can play with people on europe without of problems, who knows?

Won't have such hope for steam remote..Well its steam u know they will probably fix something small here and there for some time and then probably just forget about it
#PARSECTEAM

[Thunder]

By the way - we're using remote play to stream to our TV (old laptop) and hardware encoding on the PC was causing big issues in visual quality with big black/white artifacts in the Witcher 3

I assume Remote Play together is the exact same tech, so try fiddling around with enabling/disabling hardware encoding/decoding on the client/host!

[Nanacho]

I know this thread is a little old, but Parsec is a program/service that basically does everything Play Together does and is almost lagless but has a few quirks of its own since it can't stream just the game's audio and instead streams the system audio, but that can be fixed by using separate audio devices for chat and system, or if you don't mind a little audio distortion, it also has an echo canceling feature that works with Discord.