How to play Xbox one on laptop screen with HDMI
As we all know, what Xbox One is. A beast for a modern gaming machine that can play every modern high-end graphics game. It supports 4k and HDR gaming which takes it to another level of gaming. After Xbox One Microsoft is planning for another beast.
Although it doesn’t look as sleek as Sony’s ps4 or we can say that it is designed to place under the television set. Under the hood, the Xbox One contains eight-core x86 processors with an amped 853 MHz GPU 8GB of RAM, 500GB of local storage and 32MB of eS RAM embedded memory.
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Finding a suitable and convenient way to play high-end graphics games isn’t an easy task. With high specs gaming machine you need a high monitor or LCD screen to make it sure that you take full advantage of both gaming machines and games.
It’s not easy to carry around or afford a luxury like 4k LCD or a full-sized TC screen. That’s why today, we have written an article to let you know how to play Xbox One on laptop screen through HDMI.
Video Tutorial
How to connect your Xbox One to laptop
There are several things you will need to connect the Xbox One to a laptop screen.
- Xbox One.
- HDMI cable.
- A laptop with an HDMI connection.
Before connecting your Xbox One to the laptop screen via HDMI, there are few things to learn. Because of some limitations, there is a number of variability among different brands of laptops. The first things to know the difference between is HDMI input and HDMI output. Let me clear the difference between it by giving you a little briefing about it.
HDMI input Vs. HDMI output
When it comes to audio and video, transmitting HDMI is considered as a standard connection for current high-end gaming consoles or PC. Talking about a normal HD TV, it comes with a number of HDMI inputs, which allow the user to get full advantage of it by hooking up multiple high definition devices at the same time. HDMI makes sure to provide high-quality video and sound.
HDMI inputs
HDMI Inputs are generally found in home theaters and digital TV’s. These devices are designed to receive one end of HDMI cable by which the connection is built-up, and video and audio are transmitted. Examples of these devices are Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, A/V receivers.
HDMI outputs
HDMI outputs functions to feed audio and video signals in the HDMI input and generates connections between HDMI inputs and digital devices. Receiving and processing the information is done by this part. For example, the Blu-ray player could be connected to HDMI devices through HDMI outputs on an A/V receiver, or it can directly be connected by TV’s HDMI input.
There are two ways to play Xbox One on the laptop screen.
By connecting it via HDMI.
It is an easy method to connect Xbox One to laptop screen via HDMI. The first thing you need to do is turn off the gaming console. Before turning the console off, make sure that all the games and programs or software are not running.
There should be no downloading and installing running in the background. If there are important windows or task running wait for them to complete, once you get done with it, you are good to go.
Make sure the HDMI cable is working properly, then plug the one end of HDMI cable to Xbox One HDMI’s port, which is located at the back of the console. Now, make sure that your laptop has an HDMI port because most of the devices don’t have it.
Insert the other end of the HDMI port to your laptop’s HDMI port. Don’t worry if you don’t have an HDMI port on your laptop. We have got a solution for you. Buy an HDMI adaptor and your problem is solved.
Once you connect both devices to each other. Now you can turn on the gaming console. Don’t be so quick, wait until the console notifies you for having a connection between laptop and console. It will probably talk a few minutes. Once it detects and recognizes the laptop, you are good to proceed to further steps.
In case your console doesn’t notify you or talking a too long time to respond, you can go to a laptop display setting. For this, you have to go to the “system setting“ from the main menu then find “display settings. “ Here, you can necessary changes or customize the settings according to your needs.
The important thing to note is that you can’t connect the laptop screen with your gaming console using HDMI output. To broadcast the game, you will need to connect both to each other through HDMI cable. Once you connect the Xbox with a laptop screen, now you are using a laptop screen as an alternative screen. That’s all you have to do.
It is an easy and simple method for those who don’t have big-enough rooms to install a TV on it—a use-full method for people living in dorms or small places.
Connecting through windows 10
Another way to connect your Xbox One to Laptop is to connect via Windows 10. Those laptops which come with the latest windows version comes in here. If you have one of these laptops, you don’t need to deal with HDMI cords. This is also a simple and straight forward method.
Windows 10 has a built-in option of wireless connectivity, which allows you to connect different devices to laptops wirelessly, whether it is speakers or gaming consoles. The wireless connectivity between devices has become easy because of Directx 12 feature from the Operating system (OS) and Xbox One device. The applications of Xbox One are compatible with the operating system of Windows 10.
With the help of this application, users experience more convenient and seamless broadcasting. The Xbox One application offers you a wide array of features that will help you whenever you want to connect the console to the laptop.
The apps within the laptop also have a remote control feature for the better and smooth gaming experience. It offers a better control and high-end graphical interface to users. This sensational feature of the Xbox app allows users to connect and broadcast games directly to the laptop’s screen.
It requires a WI-FI connection so that it works properly. The speed of streaming of game depends upon the internet’s reliability and speed.
To start strzaming through windows 10, you need to download the Xbox app from the Microsoft store. It is free to download. You can also download it from somewhere else. Once the application is installed, launch the application and sign-in. In case you don’t have an account, you have to go through the registration process and set up an account.
Log-in to your account. Now you have to open settings from your gaming console and turn on the game streaming option. In settings, you can also set your preferences. Don’t forget to check the “Allow game stream to paired devices.”
Once enabled, you will see the “connect” button. Click on this button, and you are connected. During this whole process, you have to make sure is that your laptop and gaming console are both connected to the same Wi-Fi. In case you are connected to different devices, you have to input the correct IP address in both devices manually.
If you have an old laptop, you might need to access BIOS and do some configurations according to your needs. Here is a walkthrough for that too.
How to access BIOS on your laptop
To access the Basic Input Output System, known as BIOS for advanced system settings, you have to follow these steps.
- First, turn off the laptop and connect the laptop to a power source.
- Then, open the laptop.
- Press and hold the “F10” key as soon as the laptop starts to boot.
- Then release the “F10” when the BIOS menu screen appears.
- Now, you will see the BIOS options. Here you can see the change the settings and save them
- The commonly used configurations in BIOS include booting from Cd or DVD and USB devices, trouble-shooting issues, hard drive problems, and memory problems.
- Tips
if you want to revert the previous changes, then you have press and hold the “F9” key during booting. Once the BIOS menu appears, you can set the configurations to factory defaults.
The bottom line
The above-listed method is an easy method to connect your laptop with Xbox One via HDMI cable and if you don’t want to indulge yourself in cables, you still have an easy method to connect the laptop and Xbox One and that is by developing a wireless connection between devices.
But you must have windows 10 in order to use the wireless method. Make sure that you work carefully with the BIOS setting because you can accidentally damage the physical hardware of the computer while making changes in the laptop.