PC World - USA (2020-11)

102 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020

FEATURE PLAY XBOX GAMES ON A CHROMEBOOK

as good as I recall. (If you want to do a head-

to-head comparison, you’ll need to sign out

of your Xbox, then into the Xbox cloud

gaming experience—you can’t play

simultaneously.)

Frame rates,

though, were a bit

choppy, and (at a

guess) hovered

around 30 fps or

slightly lower.

I will say that

Google’s Chrome

OS didn’t

particularly help

the experience.

My Chromebook

hard-rebooted

occasionally after taking a screenshot, for

one. The way Chrome OS works on the HP

Chromebook 14 means you don’t select a

resolution, like Windows; you zoom in and

I have to say that Sea of Thieves still looks amazing within Xbox cloud gaming.

2D sprite-based sidescrollers are going to look the best, like Dead Cells.