Soldato
Google have lost the plot these days. Definitely not a company who should be taking your money for their hardware just now.
Poll: Google Stadia - CLOSING DOWN on 18th Jan 2023
Soldato
Holy **** that's good.
Soldato
My code came through in the early hours, hoping to get a chance today to have a go
Received code and will get package later today.
Entered code in app and claimed free games. Opened chrome on pc and went Stadia web page. Clicked play on Destiny and have played solid for 1hr.
Just forgot I was playing in a browser, input lag is fantastic in comparison to all other streaming platforms I have tried over the years.
Not as crisp as single player pc game but not noticeable after 5 mins playing. Strange to be playing a game and fans not kicking in!
If I tab out going back to the game it will be in a lower quality then quickly returns.
Looking forward to playing on TV later.
On Sky fibre 76/20
ps I think if i was using a controller I would not notice any difference from my xbox
Entered code in app and claimed free games. Opened chrome on pc and went Stadia web page. Clicked play on Destiny and have played solid for 1hr.
Just forgot I was playing in a browser, input lag is fantastic in comparison to all other streaming platforms I have tried over the years.
Not as crisp as single player pc game but not noticeable after 5 mins playing. Strange to be playing a game and fans not kicking in!
If I tab out going back to the game it will be in a lower quality then quickly returns.
Looking forward to playing on TV later.
On Sky fibre 76/20
ps I think if i was using a controller I would not notice any difference from my xbox
Caporegime
Free version will mean no 4K and you still need to buy games at full price. The full price will be like £50-60 I think. But lets wait and see.
Sounds good man. Bodes well for the future then. If they can get the tech to be good enough where it works fine on single player story games, then I will be very happy as those are the one's that interest me most.
I am hoping steam will release such a thing, that way we have the option of either playing our games on local hardware or stream it. I am sure if theyt offered it for £9.99 a months a lot of people would much prefer to use it due to the flexibility.
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.
Associate
Same. Blown away by how great it runs. On a chromecast with the stadia pad I just couldn't feel any input lag what's so ever, some sort of magic. Used geforce now a lot and its no contest between the two, this is on another level.
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Are you playing with the 4K stream or 1080p?
Associate
Only tried destiny 2 which upscales to 4k at the moment. Destiny was the only game i really put anytime into on geforce now.
Not had a gaming PC since 2013, so only base PS4 to go by but yeah, 4K 60fps HDR with all the trimmings on a Samsung 55" with 1500 nits is quite the change. No input lag, couldn't tell it was streaming. Ethernet based, 223/20 internet. For high end PC gamers I can't comment though.
Associate
They need to sort our any games that are not running at the advertised 4k like destiny, but the tech absolutely works. If anyone wants to add me my game tag is Hixxy.
Caporegime
Well they may have to make the investment or get left behind eventually and lose market share. Think of it like R&D where AMD and Nvidia spend billions, without that investment there is no future for those companies.
Besides it does not have to be now. It can be in say 5 years time or something when the tech is more mature and cheaper. Gives time for broadband to catch up as still many people do not have the lines needed.
Soldato
This is good to see, hopefully this launch can be put down to teething problems and the system is a success.
Anything that challenges Nvidia and their £1k GPUs gets my vote.
Soldato
First impressions count and it seems Google have totally ruined their launch potential. The scope for the platform is vast but they seem to have just ****** people off from first second.
Got my package and code earlier today. Plugged in via Ethernet - playing on chromecast with the stadia controller, could barely notice the input lag and after 10 mins of play you don’t notice it at all. Destiny looked good, a bit of compression here and there but it was as if there was a console plugged in. Really clever tech. For reference my internet is around 49mb down and 15mb up.
Caporegime
I assume that I can't just pay the £8.99/month and use this on my mac through Chrome without also paying for the chromecast/controller edition.