[Parsec] Rayman Legends & Origins - play with your friends online

[deton24]

In comparison to Rayman Origins, I stopped playing Legends relatively fast when I played it solo, but in cooperation it was much more drawing in, and entertaining. The friend complained about no harder difficulty mode, but it was me who have lags as a client after all, so it was good enough for me xd

The game allows only playing locally on the same screen up to 4 players, no LAN, no online mode.

How to play online?
I afraid very few people know about the Parsec, which allows streaming display/audio/keyboard/gamepad for another players (up to 20), so people can "join" your game. I used a keyboard, and my friend used a pad.

When my friend try to connect with me with a pad, I already had the game launched, and when Parsec session started, my system automatically detected his pad, so sometimes everything may just work on instant.

But I'll try to describe some issues we encountered during attempting to play:

1. Your pad doesn't work in the game
He was a host and needed to switch the button on his pad from Xinput to Dinput (only the latter is supported by the Rayman Legends) otherwise it didn't work at all.
If you are host, and you have a pad with Xinput only, consider using X360CE: https://gamerinfo.net/game/rayman-legends/x360ce/

2. The game has massive slowdowns
Once we launched it, the game was unplayable, and worked in slow motion with lags for both host and client
Solution: Run the game in windowed mode (it made the game run pretty decent from now on)
Solution 2: Go to settings and decrease host resolution (helps less) and FPS (most likely for slow connections).

Possible solution: Change decoder from software to AMD/Nvidia/Intel (though switching to AMD wasn't helpful in my case - GCN 4th gen)
Possible solution 2: Turn on HEVC (it caused blue screen on my machine xd)
Possible solution 3: Solution 3: Try to change the person who hosts (though it didn't really help us)
Generally the game was playable with even ping 110ms (we were in the same country, though one of us used LTE, and it had even better ping, but it didn't help to get better ping in Parsec during connection xd).

3. Binding problems
Sometimes it happened that I couldn't move the cursor in the game or bind the keys.
Solution 1: Reconnect to your host
Solution 2: Make sure that host shared keyboard with you (it was somewhere in the Parsec settings, and needed to be changed more than once AFAIK)
Solution 3: Once, the problem started to occur when we decreased resolution in host settings from default one (keep host resolution iirc) and then solution 1 and 2 didn't work. Maybe restarting the game/parsec on both sides would help or restoring the option to default.
Solution 4: Once the game loaded weird bindings of a pad, so he actively used the start key during gameplay, and we just switch the host.
Solution 5: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Rayma ... er_support

You can use this topic to find someone to play with.

[Hunchman801]

Great initiative, deton! Hope this will inspire more people to play the game.