Sager NP8640 and PS4 Remote Play?

I am traveling more and more for work and my PS4 is all alone at home. So I want to be able to game while I travel. And with smaller airline seats, I would prefer a 14" laptop.

I am starting to look at the Sager NP8640(-S)... Trying to see if it can play all the games I want to play. And I think it does at least on Low settings: Elder Scrolls online, LoL, Overwatch, Just case 3, AC Syndicate, Witcher 3 and Fallout 4... if not I would get a regular 2 in 1 laptop (Looking at the HP Spectre also),

Anyone have experience with the Sager NP8640(-S) and PS4 Remote play. I can't find much to see if Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3GB would work well with it.I THe min specs just state 2 GB min VRAM. Of course, I know I would need a good internet connection, which I may or may not have on the road... But looking into this before I make my purchase.

 

You should be fine with the NP8640 doing running your PS4 remote play. I believe your computer just needs 2gb of ram, not vram. The playstation would still be doing the rendering and everything required to play the game, but the computer would basically just be streaming the video but then sending the controller signal back to the PS4. Even if you wanted to just outright play those games on your PC, you would still be able to run them well.

 

Are you saying you want to use Remote Play outside while the PS4 is sitting at home, or do you mean buying a independent gaming laptop that also supports Remote Play when you're at home?

Slow paced games might work remotely on cable/fiber. But you can forget about doing it on an airline.


Assuming that your budget isn't too tight, it would be much better to buy the PC versions of those games (when available) and play them locally on your laptop. Converting game saves would be a problem though.

 

You won't find anything that stands a better chance.

 

As Pat said, all the rendering is done by the console. It's basically a video stream. Outside of the home the quality is going to be quite bad but on the upside, even on board graphics can support game streams.

Forget about playing anything that needs real-time input. Bejeweled or something is a different story but you try playing a FPS or action game? You'll want to throw the computer out the nearest window.

 

Online multiplayer would probably be pretty brutal, just because of the input lag going from your computer, to the PS4, and back to you.

 

It uses about 1GB/hr when streaming optimally as well. That's a hefty burden.

 

It would depend on your contract, not so bad if you are unlimited of course.

 

Even unlimited plans tend to get throttled around the 20GB mark to 2G speeds that can't even stream Netflix though. WiFi is almost essential.

 

That depends where you live, here there is a no throttle promise to go with it.

 

Some ISPs will throttle, some won't. The one I worked for previous to working at Xotic, they had no system in place for throttling customers. I'd seen that from both an internal employee, and as someone who uses a pretty good amount of internet monthly. Not all IPSs are completely evil.

But if you are traveling, it is hard to tell what ISP your hotel might have, and if they are going to throttle it.

 

Yep, though that applies to any sim you did put in the machine anyway. A lot of places do need to improve their infrastructure.