Glad you got it working!
The weird part is I could swear Iād played it remotely before without having to do all that.
That Ubisoft+ offer is better than explained in the xbox wire post.
You also get the subscription on PC, and some kinda cloud stuff.
I didnāt read the fine print so I could be wrong, but it sounds like a significant improvement to the service.
Iād be willing to bet that Ubisoft+ will close down in less than six months, or at the very least switch to a different business model. There are definitely some gems in their back catalogue, but it just doesnāt have enough variety overall.
Iām worried that they will start pulling their games off Game Pass now. I guess I should dive into Immortals Fenyx Rising just in case itās gone in a couple months.
Itās been going for over 3 and 1/2 years on Windows. Itās just never been available on Xbox before. Wikipedia says itās even been available on Luna and Stadia since the end of 2020.
Itās a pretty good value if youāre going to be using all 3 of their services.
Basically for an extra $3 a month over the PC-only version of Ubisoft+, you also get access to playing games on the cloud via Luna, as well as playing games on the Xbox.
What they needed though was an alternate tier. Maybe a $7 a month version thatās Xbox only.
My Xboxes reset that flag a while back and had to be re-enabled. Was very frustrated as it gave the appearance of just not working one day.
Ah, I thought Iād heard about it years ago and didnāt realize it was the same thing.
And God forbid that the error message point you to a couple of things you might check by including a link to a troubleshooting page! Those bytes of data arenāt free ya know. š
Another remote play question: I was under the impression that the whole point of leaving the console in the sleep mode-not-entirely-off power setting was that it allowed it to be turned on remotely over the LAN. And yet it didnāt the last time I tried that. I had to go downstairs and turn the console on after all. Is there some specific subsetting of āenable remote playā that Iāve missed?
Ha, youāve fallen victim to Microsoftās evil wokery!
There are two standby modes, shutdown and sleep. Pretty much the only difference other than the massively reduced power draw in shutdown, is that sleep lets you wake it up remotely. Theyāve recently switched to defaulting to shutdown, prompting gnashing of teeth from certain quarters. You can choose which you want from the power options menu.
See, thatās the weird part. Iād changed it to Sleep mode when I posted about another problem connecting remotely a couple of days back (which I fixed by re-enabling āremote featuresā or whatever in the settings). Yet when I tried to connect I got āWe canāt connect to your console now. Try a bit later.ā Or something to that effect.
Weirdly, the second time I tried later in the evening (and the console was āoffā, I made sure) it did come on and everything worked as advertised.
Another question for anyone, whatās the best way to get a good picture on my monitorās screen? Said monitor is a 1440p one, so once Iām connected to the console, should I go in and change the settings there to 1440p for the display, or leave it on 4k (my TVās resolution)?
Hoo, boy, I have ranted and raved to various people about the current ubiquity of the āsomething went wrongā error message. No shit something went wrong. Why donāt you tell me what it was, you unhelpful sacks of garbage???
I currently have my Series X plugged into this 1440p monitor right now. The Series X automatically detected and supports 1440p and HDR10 on the monitor. No issues and looks good.
Thanks-- youāre talking about a direct connection between console and monitor, though, correct? I was asking about the remote play thing through the Xbox app on my PC. Not sure if the signal sent through the pipe is even 1440p or 1080p. I just know RDR: Undead Nightmare looks a bit muddy on my monitor (I found my old 360 RDR disc and had bought the DLC back when, still a blast).
Woops! Yeah, remote play is going to be lower rez, I donāt even know if players have any control over that.
There is a resolution setting available but yeah, I think that only applies to directly-connected devices and probably has no bearing on what I see on my PC monitorās screen. Gonna see if I can resize my play window and see if that helps.
BTW that looks like a nice monitor you linked to. Still 1440p but a bit more screen real estate. No G-Sync though, right (next question, does FreeSync work with Nvidia cards)? Do you mind the ācurvedā part? Iāve always wondered how useful that is. What price is that when itās available?
Yes, the sync works with both my RTX 2070 and my new 4070. The curve is great, itās not as extreme as some, but it does work to keep the image within my vision. I had an ultrawide for a while, and the corners would be out of focus for me. I paid $300 for it with no regrets.
Thatās a lot less than I paid for my G-Sync one (also an ASUS) back in late 2017, so Iām envious (also due to the greater viewable area). Itās not an IPS though, right? Does have HDR though, which mine doesnāt.
Is your model something thatās likely to become available again or discontinued?
Itās a newer technology called VA (vertical alignment, IIRC). Itās considerably brighter than the ASUS ips monitor that it replaced and the colors really pop. Itās more of a gaming monitor than a productivity monitor, but I have an ips monitor next to it for that stuff.
I do see other curved ASUS monitors on Amazon for around 300, it looks like the 144hz model got replaced with a 165hz model.