If you are having issues getting everything working, log onto your PS4 and check a couple of settings. If you have a 4K monitor, it’s going to be really small unless you have everything scaled up. I have a 2560×1440 monitor and so the window is fairly small on the screen.
If you are using a 1080p display, you won’t be as disappointed as I was with the 720p resolution.
If all goes well, you should get a window with your PS4 steaming to your Windows or Mac machine!Īs I mentioned above, the performance and quality of the game streaming was superb over the local network. If it doesn’t find your PS4, you can also click on the Register Manually button and try that method.
It might take a minute or two while it searches for the console. Once you have signed in, it will start searching for your PS4 automatically. You’ll obviously need a PSN account and it should be the same account that your PS4 is logged into. I didn’t get to try this out, so I can’t really comment on how it performs.įinally, once you configure your settings, click on Start and you’ll first be asked to sign into the PlayStation network. It’s also worth noting that remote play will work across the Internet too, but the results will depend heavily on the Internet connection speeds at both locations. If the PS4 doesn’t have the hardware to handle 1080p, then we’ll probably be stuck with 720p until the PS4.5 comes out. Obviously, if you run into sound issues or choppy graphics, you can change these setting each time you run remote play.Ĭurrently, remote play does not support 1080p or higher resolutions and may or may not in the future. If you are streaming PS4 games over your home network and everything is gigabit, then you should be fine changing the resolution to 720p and the frame rate to High.
I suggest clicking on settings first to configure the resolution and frame rate.īy default, the resolution is set to 540p and the frame rate is set to Standard. Once you have connected your controller, you can either click on Start or Settings. The first screen that will popup tells you to connect a DualShock 4 controller to your computer via USB. Once completed, run the PS4 Remote Play program from your desktop. The installation is straight-forward and doesn’t require you to choose any settings, etc. Once your system is up-to-date, you can now install the Remote Play software on your Windows or Mac machine. If an update is available, it will automatically be downloaded and installed.
Now scroll down until you see System Software Update and press X on the controller. To update the system software on your PS4, press up on the D-Pad and then over to the right until Settings is highlighted. Obviously, the first step is to turn on your PS4 and make sure you have installed the latest system software, which should be 3.50 as of the time of this writing. For Macs, it’s either OS X Yosemite or El Capitan. You should also know that remote play doesn’t work with Windows 7, only Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The setup procedure was pretty much identical on the Mac.
I’ll first quickly go over how to setup remote play on a Windows PC and then talk about the performance, troubleshooting, etc. However, everything worked without a hitch.
Just streaming a movie from my Synology NAS to my HDTV downstairs usually results in some sort of troubleshooting on my part, so I expected to run into at least a couple of issues.