Poll: Google Stadia - CLOSING DOWN on 18th Jan 2023

Are you going to pick up Google Stadia?

  • Yes, at launch

    Votes: 20 5.3%

  • Yes, but after launch

    Votes: 24 6.3%

  • No

    Votes: 286 75.5%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 49 12.9%
  • Total voters
    379
Had some serious frame drops in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, single digits which caused me to die several times while jumping walls. Was all toward the last 30 minutes of game play. To it's defence it felt more like a game/engine processing issue than bandwidth, as my connection was always showing as 'excellent' when paused to check. Not sure what to conclude but will keep an eye out for patterns in drop behaviour.

Ubiquiti client data shows 44.5GB download for a couple hours of play, which is inline with the app settings for full 4K, warning 20GB/per hour usage.
 
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So what I'm wondering is why the poor settings for some of the games when compared to Xbox One X.
If Stadia has a better CPU and better GPU, why is Destiny only running at 1080p60? Why is RDR2 only running at 1440p? Why is Tomb Raider still having to offer 4K30 or <4K for 60fps?
 
ic1male said:
So what I'm wondering is why the poor settings for some of the games when compared to Xbox One X.
If Stadia has a better CPU and better GPU, why is Destiny only running at 1080p60? Why is RDR2 only running at 1440p? Why is Tomb Raider still having to offer 4K30 or <4K for 60fps?
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My guess is google's servers either can't handle the load or they lied and at launch you aren't using a system with the specs they advertised
 
Finally got my code at 3am this morning so I was up at stupid o'clock to test it out and I have to say I'm very impressed with Stadias performance. I've only played an hour or so of Destiny2 and it was pretty smooth and better than anything I've seen on Geforce now and Psnow. The proper test will come this evening when the whole family will b e using the internet.
 
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budge1972 said:
Finally got my code at 3am this morning so I was up at stupid o'clock to test it out and I have to say I'm very impressed with Stadias performance. I've only played an hour or so of Destiny2 and it was pretty smooth and better than anything I've seen on Geforce now and Psnow. The proper test will come this evening when the whole family will b e using the internet.
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Surely most routers we will be able to prioritise Stadia?
 
I played my Stadia for hours last night, it felt as good as the steam link which is weird considering its over the internet. I didn't experience anything but decent gameplay on Destiny 2 and it looked really nice.

On the back of that I bought Assassin's Creed Odyssey, straight into the game and it looked and felt just as good, no issues in the hour or 2 I played.

I use power line adapters to an 8 port switch and since I've hard wired my Chromecast to the network switch I did expect the power line adapters to be an issue but they weren't.

I can't speak for doing it wireless but I'm impressed so far.

It's it possible to bring up a latency graph like you can with the steam link?
 
elh_2009 said:
What games are you downloading?!?! Surely even with slow speeds any game csnt take more than 4 or so hours?

Personally I'd rather games stay physical. Its keep ls the retro scene going as well, in 20 years you wont be able to load up the ps3 and download one of the games your purchased digital but that's a whole different argument.
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haha on my internet, if I wanted to play Destiny 2 on PC (which if I recall has something like a 70gb download) it could take a full day to download.

Oh I still buy physical on console where possible, but even some of the games on consoles have large update files on release.
 
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