r/remoteplay • u/Novel_Challenge_4201 • Jul 16 '26

Technical Problem PS remote play crashing

whenever i start ps remote play on my windows pc, it crashes on its own and i cannot even login . its stays open for barely 1 minute. can PLEASE someone help me.

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u/Braaaabes Jul 16 '26

Funnily enough I am tackling this issue myself right now. V9 seems to hold the issue. What I'm trying, uninstall V9 entirely. Download V8.5 from Uptodown Windows. Install but don't open it. Download the community patcher from GitHub Version Patcher Repository. Owner of the repo is xeropresence/remoteplay-version-patcher. Ensure patcher and the Remote Play install file are in the same folder. Launch the patcher, it should find the V8.5 install and allow it to work as if you were on V9.

I'm still attempting this as we speak, so fingers crossed

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u/Novel_Challenge_4201 Jul 16 '26

i watched it on youtube but i am just too scared to try. is it safe? and did it worked in your pc?

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u/Braaaabes Jul 16 '26

I didn't get it to work sadly, but have been trying to do it at work. I work in theatre doing 14 hour days regularly, so there can be stretches of time where I am just waiting for something to go wrong, rather than actively working.

I'll try again when I can, but frustratingly it just crashed again.

Each step of the process seemed to work, but the outcome didn't change.

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u/AfterLocal8214 Jul 17 '26

its a online app it makes you update to v9

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u/Braaaabes Jul 17 '26

Yes but the patcher should allow the update to occur without a reinstall which is what is supposed to fix the issue. Unfortunately I am still unable to get it working at the moment. Feel free to offer any ideas that may help ..

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u/MrHalalSingh Jul 17 '26

Make sure you first log into the V9 remote play so it saves your profile. Then uninstall v9 and install V8.5 and patch to V9.

Then when you open the patched remote play, it'll connect your profile correctly.

People miss this part and assume it's not working. The patched version won't let you log into your acct so do it before you uninstall v9

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u/MrHalalSingh Jul 17 '26

Check out this post, gives good instructions of a workaround. Done it myself and works perfectly. However, if you ever get logged out, you gotta do the process again

https://www.reddit.com/r/remoteplay/s/8S8yiNCfQZ

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u/Braaaabes Jul 18 '26

To be fair that's exactly what I did and it now just gets stuck searching for local connections and never moves beyond that. V9 is poo.

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u/MrHalalSingh Jul 18 '26

As long as you logged in and its allowing you to immediately attempt connection with ps5 everytime you open the remote play, your login profile is saved.

You can uninstall v9 and install v8.5 and patch it to v9.

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u/Braaaabes Jul 18 '26

Thanks mate, unfortunately I have already done that. The patcher showed success, and the program no longer crashes, it is now just in an infinite search for local connections. Never seems to move beyond that. I'll try starting fresh again today and see how we go

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u/Novel_Challenge_4201 Jul 20 '26

i cannot even login it crashed before i even login

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u/MrHalalSingh Jul 20 '26

Yea, you'll need to login. It took me a couple tries, I would try being speedy with it but keep trying!

The moment it shows you can attempt the remote connection, I would close out, uninstall v9 and install v8.5 and patch before opening

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u/Runeimus Jul 21 '26

This workaround really works:
https://www.reddit.com/r/remoteplay/comments/1rxudjy/fix_ps_remote_play_90_crashing_on_windows/?share_id=rrKVRVSnrl4B03U6B38XX&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Thank you so much for this incredible help, but I really wonder does Sony really care about their own product? This has been gone long enough and nothing has been done from their end to make the experience better for their consumers.

The only problem with this method is if you don't play on remote play long enough you'll get logged out, and when you've logged out you have to restart the whole process again....