XBox One S games on my Pc

[Ballistic]

I currently play FH3 & FH6 on my Xbox One S and am considering upgrading my Pc from W7 to W10 and 980ti to 1080ti to play the same games.

My questions are;
1) Will both games look and run better on the Pc?
2) Has all of the issues with FH3 on the Pc been resolved now. Is it a stable game to play?
3) Will I have to re-start FH3 from the beginning if I install the game on the Pc or can I transfer my game save?

TIA

[SwissJonese]

Why not just stream from XBox One to your PC? I use it to stream from my XBox to my laptop which is not very powerful and screen quality is amazing without any lag.

[Ballistic]

SwissJonese said:

Why not just stream from XBox One to your PC? I use it to stream from my XBox to my laptop which is not very powerful and screen quality is amazing without any lag.

I wasn't aware of this option.
How will it actually work in practice i.e. how would I connect the XB1 to the Pc and get it to stream?

Ok, I've just found an instruction on the Xbox website that describes how to use game streaming in the Xbox app on W10
With this method, what determines the image quality when playing a game; the XB1S or the Pc graphics card?

Edited by Ballistic on Wednesday 12th April 11:53

[SwissJonese]

Ballistic said:

With this method, what determines the image quality when playing a game; the XB1S or the Pc graphics card?

All the hard work is done via the XBox, the PC does nothing more that stream it, I've Streamed XBox one games on a very underpowered tablet PC with perfect results.

[J-D-Stagpump]

Ballistic said:

and am considering upgrading my Pc from W7 to W10 and 980ti to 1080ti to play the same games.

TIA

Also if you are looking for an equivalent quality to the Xbox One S then the 1080 will probably massive overkill. the 1070 almost matches the 1080 for £200 less

If you are only planning to do standard HD then you would probably be fine with a 1060. Unless you have an insane monitor and are planning on 4K gaming then the 1080 is money for nothing.

[mizx]

OP has a 980Ti now?

PC will look better and outperform it yes, what he has now is objectively better than the Xbox surely? Why stream?

Edited by mizx on Saturday 15th April 21:51

[dave_s13]

SwissJonese said:

Ballistic said:

With this method, what determines the image quality when playing a game; the XB1S or the Pc graphics card?

All the hard work is done via the XBox, the PC does nothing more that stream it, I've Streamed XBox one games on a very underpowered tablet PC with perfect results.

I had no Idea you could do this.

How does the controller work though, does it have enough range to work in an adjacent room??

[130R]

With that spec of PC why on earth would you stream from an XBox unless the game isn't available on PC? A 1080ti has more than 8x the GPU power of an XBox One. It should be hooked up to a 1440p monitor minimum (ideally a G-Sync one) to make use of it.

[Irrotational]

Ok i think streaming is a bit of a tangent. Graphically and generally the games will look better on your PC. BUT!

FH3 you can play on PC, Forza 6 you can't. Forza 6 has a free PC demo called " Apex" but the full game is only on x1. You can stream it if you want to. Streaming quality depends primarily on bandwidth between the Xbox and the PC. Cables are best!

FH3 is a "play anywhere" title which means you get the PC version of the full game for free. Assuming your online your saves are stored in the cloud and will update and sync in the background...So you can switch between devices and always been on your latest save.

I can't comment on the stability of the PC version - if you don't get any joy here is try the Forza forums and/or a gaming site like neogaf.

[Ballistic]

After some consideration, I've decided to stick with what I've got for the moment.

Streaming is not the solution I am looking for.

The whole purpose of upgrading the Pc graphics card would have been to run FH3 and Forza Apex in a higher resolution than I can achieve with the XB1.
I currently have my Pc and XB1 connected to a Samsung 6400 40" TV and FH3 in HDR looks really good when compared to the monitor I had before.

After doing some research, I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft want people to game on consoles and only offer the cross-platform Pc version as a token gesture; Forza Apex is a very slimed down version of F6 and FH3 is a joke with it's poorly optimised code.

I will probably buy an Xbox Scorpio when it comes out (end of 2017?); they already have optimised Forza code running at 4k 60fps with the hardware only being stressed to 70%

Many thanks for everyone's input to this thread.

[Irrotational]

Cool.

Scorpio will definitely be out this year, they are ahead of their plans in terms of hardware being ready.

Design and price will be revealed at e3, I assume it will go on sale in Sept/Oct/Nov ready for the Christmas season.