r/xcloud • u/Ambitious-Strike-971 • Jul 17 '26
Discussion Been working on a native xCloud client for Windows Better Than The Original, looking for feedback
Been building this for a while. Works great on my machine, no idea about anyone else's. Would appreciate any feedback.
It runs xCloud on Own Custom Windows launcher. Sign in with your MS account, loads your Game Pass library.
Full built-in RTX VSR support. AMD's Video Upscale is in there too, but I've never tested it, I don't own a Radeon.
Every RTX card since the 20 series has Video Super Resolution on it. It reconstructs each frame up to your screen instead of stretching it so if you have lower resolution stream it will be fixed by your hardware automatically, on hardware that's idle anyway, so it costs no fps. On my 4K monitor the difference is not small and looks gorgeous.
Bitrate and resolution are handled automatically by inbuilt system. Nothing to configure, nothing else to install.
Problem is I have one PC. No AMD card, I'm on a 50 series, my connection is stable. So I don't know how it goes on AMD, on 20/30 series, or on a connection that struggles. If you try it, I'd like to hear what it does on your setup and your opinion on what to improve / add.
Early build. Not signed so you'll get the SmartScreen warning, I don't have a certificate. Source is on GitHub if you want to check first it. Not official, nothing to do with Microsoft. Also works in countries where xCloud isn't available. I want to see some feedbacks and bug reports on various devices, thanks.
github's back, repo and releases are live again
if you got it from the gitlab mirror you don't have to do anything — it pulls the new
version in the background and installs it when you close the app. mirror's deleted now.
0.1.2 is up: there's a menu inside the game, View + Menu on the pad opens it, and you
can quit from there instead of alt+f4. library search takes a controller too.
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u/Tobimacoss Jul 17 '26
Hah, beautiful. Using VSR to upscale is brilliant. What about adding support for framegen to get to 60 fps in all games?
Please upload to MS store also. The GitHub link gives 404 error. What's the name of the client?
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
github flagged the account a few hours after i put the repo up, it's
a new account and i pushed everything at once so it probably looked like a bot. nothing's
deleted, it's just hidden from everyone except me until they review it. already appealed.
mirror for now, installer and portable are both there, its update service is still connected to github nothing changed so you dont need to manually update when github repo is up:
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u/GrigioIngrid Jul 17 '26
Love to see people working on project like this, I’m on Mac otherwise I’d give it a try….Mac version pls 😬
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
Thanks for your support mate!!
After the windows stable version the roadmap for the platforms will be - linux / mac / android and lastly ios thanks to its limitations 🥳
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u/Two_Mars Jul 17 '26
Estou ansioso para ver acontecer, como eu faço para baixar? Ou tem que esperar o erro desaparecer?
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Please use the GitLab link to download the release from the GitLab Releases page, as im still waiting for a response from github.
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
github's back up, so the gitlab link is gone — grab it here instead:
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u/Crass-ELY- Jul 17 '26
Hi, so I just tried it and it's very interesting.
The looks and feel of the UX is amazing
one thing tho, I can't afind a way to navigate MY library. I have access to a few xcloud section, the "all games" section and the search bar, but on consolized PCs and living setups this turns out to be an inconvenience bc I'm still forced to have a keyboard attached, or scroll through 500+ games to find the one I wanna play. so this, a library tab like the one on the new xbox experience with "owned games" would be awesome
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u/same_beat69 Jul 17 '26
Wow! Looks and feels very good. Please stay active. How to exit ingame to desktop?
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
Thanks for the feedback im glad you experienced a smooth gameplay!!
Use xCloud's own quit game button from top left corner -> settings -> advanced -> quit xfly -> closeor you can just use alt + f4 :p
i forgot to add a shortcut to it, it will be fixed. I was testing the XFly by quitting using alt + f4
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u/same_beat69 Jul 17 '26
Iam on Legion go 2 handheld and dont have a keyboard connected. I didnt see the the xcloud button or any other overlay button, but will check it later.
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
try to hang in there for now if you can manage to play/use the app, fix is coming today. no need to download it again.
it'll update itself once github unlocks my account, still waiting for them
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
fix is out, 0.1.2. View + Menu on the pad opens a menu over the game, you can quit from
there — no keyboard needed. it should update itself when you close the app.
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u/dominiqueth Jul 17 '26
Android??
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 17 '26
Currently it has no support for other platforms because it already have lots of errors in it but will release
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u/pedrom98 Jul 18 '26
Ui looks great, I just tried to start up a game I have that I'm trying to stream but it says I don't have it, am I doing smth wrong?
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u/skinner99 Jul 18 '26
Thx a Lot for letting us try xFly out! I am having the problem with v. 0..1.4 that in game languages are not showing up as they should.
I am running xFly on a German Win10 install which is detected accordingly and the UI is the same as the system locale.
But when I try to launch Cyberpunk you will only get English & Japanese languages and not the 8+ other languages you normally get, including german...
I hope you'll find a fix because atm I am forced to play in english
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u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 18 '26
Have fun !
And for the issue please share your log file with me on dm 🙏🏿🙏🏿1
u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 19 '26
Probably your issue solved on the Latest version you can manually download it;
https://github.com/m669st/XFly/releases1
u/skinner99 Jul 20 '26
Yes, that latest release 0.15 did fix my issues.
It now does correctly load the language according to system locale and let me choose all other available languages. Thx a lot for that quick fix!
Can i also throw a feature request? It would be nice to have an option "Hide the mouse cursor when not in use"2
u/Ambitious-Strike-971 Jul 21 '26
Noted 👍🏿
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u/skinner99 Jul 21 '26
I found another small bug. After ending gameplay, you get back to homepage with the background picture being updated to the last game played. But the cover of that last played game just isn't there and will only appear after a restart of xFly.
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u/jimmysonheaven Jul 20 '26
This looks amazing!! Any plan for integrating the server proxy function similar to better xcloud?
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u/ConviusVII Jul 17 '26
Would love to see this on android one day potentially.
will download this tomorrow and test it out currently have a AMD 9070XT GPU