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[Golgo 13]

So I dusted off my poor Vita in hopes that I'd get some use out of it using Remote Play to play my PS4, while my girlfriend was watching TV in the next room. What I've found is that Remote Play is laggy, slow, glitchty, and unreliable to say the least -- and this is playing in the next room -- I can't imagine how bad it'd be trying to play on a train somewhere using Wi-Fi.

Yes, the usual troubleshooting steps were taken -- my network is NOT congested, I have great download speeds, and I'm not even that far away, either. I've tried opening up settings on my router, resetting my router, blowing magic dust on my Vita, etc -- yeah, nothing works. Best case scenario is that it works well for maybe 5-10 minutes and then I get severe lag and a pixelated screen with the "trying tro connect" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

Yeah, I know Sony has royally fucked up Remote Play before (they even lost a lawsuit over it regarding the PS3 feature), but I've heard so much positive feedback here on GAF (using it with the PS4) that I thought I'd have a better experience. So fucking bizarre that Sony can't make this work for gamers with good Internet, no interference, ETC.

GAF, how's your experiences with Remote Play been? Any idea why mine is so poor?

 

[YianGaruga]

Works pretty damn well. Better than I expected even.

 

[Justified]

I have played it in another state via a cell phone hotspot, and it work pretty well for me. Also my PS4 is wired to my router

 

[Certinty]

Still the best feature of current-gen consoles for me. Works flawlessly when I'm in bed and even at university, only downside is that certain games suck (mainly shooters). But besides that remote play is utterly amazing.

 

[LTWood12]

Remote play is life. Remote play is my favorite feature of this generation.

 

[Modest Mauser]

It works very well for most people.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

Works fine for me-either at home near my PS4 or 20 miles away at work.

 

[bananafactory]

It works nearly perfect for me with every game. Can't say I share your experience

 

[Legendary---]

Never had any problems with it. Always worked ridiculous well within my house and a few dozen miles away in my grandparents house.

Must be a local issue for you?

 

[Perfect Cha0s]

Are you connecting directly to the PS4? Some people report different results with it on or off.

Remote play is typically completely smooth for me. Never had an issue with it, though I've never really tried to use it for anything serious if I were out of the house connecting over the internet.

 

[Massa]

Works perfectly for me. You probably have a bad wireless router. And nope, having fast downloads doesn't mean you have good throughput and low latency.

 

[hawk2025]

Works flawlessly for me.

Not sure if you are getting some interference you haven't managed to pinpoint, but local Remote Play is flawless (within its limitations, of course) in my experience.

The lawsuit was over cross-save on MLB, by the way. Nothing to do with remote play or royally fucking it up.

 

[Suzushiiro]

I've had the weird experience of remote play being awful in the same room as the system and great when I'm several states away. Maybe it just doesn't like certain LAN setups? Maybe it's an interference thing?

 

[bigkrev]

I've been using it nightly for weeks now, ever since Yugioh came out on PS4. I've played the game exclusively on my Vita, usually while my PS4 is in another room.

Couldn't imagine trying to use it on a Wifi connection outside my home, though.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Works fine for me even when i am at my university which is like 20 miles away from my home.

 

[Nheco]

Maybe your router sucks?

Since it's a local connection, your internet speed doesn't matter.

Can you share your router brand and model?

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Don't use just WiFi. Connect with the PS4 directly.

 

[bombshell]

Is your PS4 wired? If not, it should be.

Did you change the Remote Play quality settings on the Vita to high?

 

[PensivePen]

It's worked fine for me in general, but I find it isn't well suited to the types of games I enjoy playing (those that require relatively quick reaction time for the most part). It would be an incredible feature if the PS4 had a better library of jrpgs, as I think those are suited perfectly to remote play.

 

[JCX]

I remote played Destiny while on vacation in California (I live in Michigan), and it was extremely smooth. Your setup may not be configured for RP to work well.

 

[Cess007]

I've shitty internet (Thanks Telnor/Telmex) and yet i've been able to play flawlessly GTAV from my bed (in another room).

 

[Mung]

Works brilliantly for me.

Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean that the feature is awful.

 

[Dr_LucienSanchez]

Counterargument - Vita Remote Play (PS4) is fantastic.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Thread's like these completely jump the gun at least add a (for me) in there. I thought the general opinion was that it worked pretty well

 

[EvilKatarn]

Works fine.

If you're directly connected to the PS4 then you'll have a bad time if you're playing in another room.

 

[Waylon Drums]

It used to be pretty good but suddenly it's awful, even sitting five feet from the PS4. Video screwing up, inputs not being recognized/hanging, you name it.

 

[sn00zer]

Settings->Power Setting-> Uncheck Wifi Power Save Mode

 

[akidnamededdy]

It actually wasn't too bad for me recently playing mgsV in Louisiana on my ps4 in Austin, minus the wonky controls of course. Just dude some routine base clearing and resource collection stuff. Worked better than I'd anticipated.

 

[curb]

I've been using mine within a 8ft radius from my PS4 so much over the last month and have barely had an issue. It's completely YMMV though.

My biggest problem was that remote play directly via wifi was interfering with my streaming box's 5ghz connection.

 

[Arttemis]

Yes, the usual troubleshooting steps were taken -- my network is NOT congested, I have great download speeds, and I'm not even that far away, either. I've tried opening up settings on my router, resetting my router, blowing magic dust on my Vita, etc -- yeah, nothing works. Best case scenario is that it works well for maybe 5-10 minutes and then I get severe lag and a pixelated screen with the "trying tro connect" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

Did you disable the power saving wireless setting? That defaulted setting gimps the Vita's power to its wireless antenna.

 

[Get_craycray]

"Remote Play doesn't work well for me" should have been the title.

Never had any problem with it. Works like a charm.

 

[Elaugaufein]

Its worked fine for me over local wi-fi (make sure you turn that feature on on the PS4). The over internet play requires some pretty absurd bandwith requirements and good latency for a lot of places (you need an ~800 KB/s connection with excellent response time).

 

[Z..]

It's a disgrace for me too. Completely unplayable, broken, mess.

 

[WildEagle18]

Works fine with me, been using my remote play before sleep to grind of Disgaea 5 Demo lol

 

[names2hard4you]

OP I would check the settings if I were you. Much like everyone else, I've had 0 issues with it.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

I'll chime in with my anecdotal experience: I don't use remote play, don't really care to, but I remember playing AC: Black Flag as a demo and it ran well, other than the controls being a bit clunky. Simpler games, like Rocket League, would seem to more suited.

Wait a minute: Rocket League. I may have just found a reason to remote play again.

 

[lyrick]

it's game to game, if the game requires an actual twitch reaction, it's unplayable. If timing is looser, it kind of works.

It's definitely sub-par to Steams Home streaming though and embarrassingly worse than Wii U off TV play.

 

[Erudite]

I mainly use it as my 4th controller when my buddies come over and it works alright for me, infrequent and random disconnects aside.

 

[Justified]

It's a disgrace for me too. Completely unplayable, broken, mess.

But it's not

 

[androvsky]

There's an incredibly unintuitive setting on the Vita about power-saving and wifi in system settings. Try changing it.

 

[Killthee]

It's pretty hit and miss for me. More often than not it works great, but every now and again I just can't get a strong connection so the whole thing goes to shit. My router is pretty old though and has been giving me issues for a while so I suspect that's partly to blame and all the other wifi signals in my apartment building probably aren't helping.

There's an incredibly unintuitive setting on the Vita about power-saving and wifi in system settings. Try changing it.

Don't how this got reenabled on my vita, but thanks for posting this or I wouldn't have double checked. Hopefully this helps me.

 

[MagnetoWasRight]

In ideal conditions, I can play through full raids in Destiny on my Vita from work. Remote play on the PS TV is phenomenal over a wired connection too. The wifi in the Vita is garbage, but if you can work with it, the experience is wonderful.

 

[Dangansona]

I've had the weird experience of remote play being awful in the same room as the system and great when I'm several states away. Maybe it just doesn't like certain LAN setups? Maybe it's an interference thing?

You probably had direct connect turned on and weren't close enough to the ps4 or something.

 

[AmyS]

Remote Play is awesome, especially since high framerate setting was added for smoothie goodness.

MGS5 looks amazing played @ 60FPS on VITA.

 

[Roldan]

Visually, it works pretty good to me, it is very stable too, but I can't stand playing anything that requires aiming on it. The sticks are just too small.

Also, that touch/back touch remapping isn't very comfortable either. >:

 

[bomblord1]

Set it to use your local network instead of a direct connection to the PS4.

 

[MurkyZebra2417]

It is one of the best features ever. I platinumd' Type 0 completly on the Vita, like it was intended. It was flawless in my home LAN.

Also played Driveclub, FF14, all worked flawless.

 

[Iorv3th]

Two things.

1) Is your PS4 hard wired or using wifi?

2) are you directly connected to your PS4 or for remote play or connected to your router, going through your router will work better when sitting more than 15-20 feet away from it (walls will reduce that length).



Works very well for me, even played it across the country over the internet.

 

[Aceofspades]

It works brilliantly here, I used it once cross USA, mind blown away.

 

[Mr Git]

I've been playing The Phantom Pain on the bus. Which is clearly amazing.