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Did you ever try Stadia on hardware similar to these laptops? I did, and to be honest I thought performance was excellent. On my Pixel Slate, my 2015 XPS13, and
by Moissanite 4y ago
Did you ever try Stadia on hardware similar to these laptops? I did, and to be honest I thought performance was excellent. On my Pixel Slate, my 2015 XPS13, and my M2 MacBook Air - all gave great performance with no observable lag or bandwidth issues, even when playing on WiFi and streaming Netflix at the same time over a 76Mb/s connection. The only time the experience degraded was, oddly, when using the Stadia-bundled Chromecast, which even had a wired connection.
Sadly, like basically everyone else, I never trusted Google enough to buy into the ecosystem - and consequently bought a grand total of 1 game.
- finiteseries 4y agoIt was okay, but solidly last gen. Stadia was always limited to 1080p@60hz, upscaling to 4K at max bitrate of ~45Mbps. Getting the new MBP actually pushed me to GeForce Now at the time which can hit true 4k@120hz and stream at native Mac resolutions with eg ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 now up to 70Mbps, I highly recommend trying it out if you’re still interested in cloud gaming, the difference is quite drastic.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoEverything good Google brought to Stadia always came from their strength as an Internet giant. Like Xbox in 2001, superior performance and backing of a large non gaming company didn’t compensate lack of content. That’s the strongest thing a platform can have.