Cripes, it’s soon crept on us, launch date is Tuesday! Am looking forward to seeing what happens when Joe Public gets their hands on it. Everyone seems impressed with xCloud.
Poll: Google Stadia - CLOSING DOWN on 18th Jan 2023
It could be the unfamiliarity with a new set of development tools. All these games have to be ported to Vulkan and Linux and who knows what quirks that set up might have. It's certainly not a commonplace environment.
Here's Digital Foundry's pre-launch testing. In a nutshell, in motion it looks decent but when you compare stills with their comparison tool, it looks absolutely ****.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-stadia-tech-review
Destiny 2 is 1080p, Red Dead Redemption 2 is 1440p.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-stadia-tech-review
Destiny 2 is 1080p, Red Dead Redemption 2 is 1440p.
Just to balance the argument out though here's another DF quote.
It could be, at the end of the day, no hefty console purchase, no downloads and instant access at the loss of image quality and latency could be what wins it.
It could be, at the end of the day, no hefty console purchase, no downloads and instant access at the loss of image quality and latency could be what wins it.
I don't know how they could do it without investing many, many $$$$. The entire Steam library would need to be adjusted to work on a fixed hardware spec if Valve do similar to Stadia. (And it's highly likely they'd copy Stadia with Vulkan and Linux instead of paying Microsoft for Windows.) Or they might just port things as they go and if your game isn't on the list, you'll have to download it. Maybe they could provide access to virtual PCs like Shadow.tech. It's easy for Microsoft and Sony because they have a fixed hardware spec in place with the Xbone and PS4. But for Valve it would be somewhat of a nightmare. The same would apply to all the others like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard-Activision who have been murmuring in the past about setting up their own cloud streaming services.
Are you playing with the 4K stream or 1080p?
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?
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?
How many fps does AC Odyssey have? Is it still 30 like the playtest last year?
You aren't going to be playing Horizon Zero Dawn 2 on Stadia fo' sure! So if you value Sony's exclusives then a PS5 is a no-brainer (unless you want to use PS Now). If you get a PS5 then why would you buy the same game on Stadia instead? Only if you swap around screens regularly, I suppose.
You're either playing at 4K30 or lower than 4K to get 60fps. The game has a performance/quality mode.
Whatever the game is being rendered at on Stadia you should always be getting a 1080p60 or 4K60 video stream to your TV because they will upscale the resolution for Pro subscribers and do 2x encode for 30fps games. So it shouldn't really matter what your TV is doing processing-wise as long as you have the right mode (game) for lowering display lag.
LMAO. What next? NBA 2K20 has a bug which means it goes into update mode on Stadia.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...not-sure-thats-how-stadia-is-supposed-to-work
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...not-sure-thats-how-stadia-is-supposed-to-work
Of course not but the irony of Google shouting "no downloads, no patches, no updates," blah blah blah and then there's a game that has one. Even if it's a bug it doesn't look good.
Yeah and Borderlands 3 on Stadia is two months behind with its patches. They hope to get it up to parity with other platforms early next year.
You can't use DirectX for a start, you have to use Vulkan. It might be easy to port, it might not be. I have no idea. But there aren't many games on PC that use Vulkan even though it's been available for a while. It all depends on Google's toolchain. I guess you could liken it to consoles in that first generation games always perform a bit janky and then after a few years things start to get better.
I wonder what’s going on with the free access and integration with YouTube which is supposed to really get things going. Has there been any official comms this year?
LOL, how about Google get their act together and you know, launch the stuff they said they were going to like the free tier, the integration with YouTube, etc. Nobody's going to give two hoots about Stadia when xCloud is fully launched.
I think you have to download the app on your phone and do signup from there.
So I'm mildly curious now that Borderlands 3 is on a free weekend. How do I play on Windows? Does the Chrome browser support 4K gameplay now?