Hey All! I’ve been into the retro handheld world for a while now and just recently went down the road towards looking into a Deck, especially with the announcement of the OLED model. I also own a X-box Series X with Game Pass Ultimate, but want to play on the go a lot more. I’ve tried cloud/remote play from Xbox at the location(s) I’ve planned on playing mobile, but the lag was just too great to enjoy the game. I have crap internet where I live and where the Xbox is located. So, I have a couple questions:
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I have like 50 hours in Starfield (Xbox Game Pass) that I’d rather not lose. If I were to get a Deck, is there any way possible to transfer the saves from the Xbox to the Deck AND not have the lag from attempting to use cloud/remote play? As in, if I were to purchase and install, or get a copy of Starfield on the Deck (and not from Game Pass), is my save FROM Game Pass able to be recovered somehow and played? Trying to avoid the lag issues and losing my Xbox save.
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I would have to hotspot my internet connection from my phone to the Deck for internet access, and then would have access to Wifi 6e at the other location I would play at. Anyone have any issues or concerns with their connections with those two particular setups?
Again, super new to this, so any help, suggestions, etc. is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
you can use xcloud at home if you have gigabit internet it should run flawless. In this case your save automatically carries over on xcloud, you don’t have to buy the game again, you just start it on xcloud and it resumes where you were on your xbox save. lag is pretty much imperceptible, if you have the ability to play the game at 60fps always pick it, it makes the lag almost non existent ( i play gta online like this and its great)
cant talk for hotspots, only use streaming at home with 2GB internet speed
with xcloud you can also acess all the gamepass games on your steamdeck,but you need internet to play them.
if you have crap internet i wouldn’t rely on xcloud at all tbh.
It’s worth mentioning that Starfield runs like ass on the Deck. From what I’ve gathered, it’s “playable”, in the strictest sense, but you’re going to be putting up with a lot of stutter and frame time spikes.
If you can use Xbox Cloud Gaming, that obviously won’t impact you, since it’s streaming from Microsoft’s servers, and there’s plenty of other stuff you can play on the Deck directly if you need to.
As far as mobile hotspotting goes, it generally doesn’t play nice with game streaming. Streaming is very sensitive to network latency, and mobile network latency is high.