Hands up if you're "in"
So far I don't know anyone who is.. hence asking.
Hands up if you're "in"
So far I don't know anyone who is.. hence asking.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Are you?
I'm still not sold on game streaming, mainly because phone gaming always sucks and it kills the battery.
As is, I'm using Blue Stacks to play on PC the few phone games that are actually entertaining.
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
No I'm not... I'm intrigued to know if anyone here is and what it's like
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
I could have a look for you if you like?
It seems to be free and compatible even with my Galaxy S5...
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
I'm certainly not, as I think we're still in the OnLive situation again (except for Google probably being able to fund Stadia for as long as it wants to).
Namely, connections overall not being fast and reliable enough for it to be realistically feasible for many.
Plus I've got no desire for any type of portable gaming anyway, if I want to play something I'd rather run it straight from my own hardware and see it on my monitor.
Ah but it's also for people at home, on good internet connetions, but who have low powered PC's or even no PC, to play on their TV
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
I don't have one personally, but a suc...friend at work bought one and we got to try it when we were still in the office.
Keep in mind that we have a gigabit connection, and we were trying destiny 2 with the Stadia controller (which was "OK" but not up to the Xbox or Switch Pro controller standard).
Destiny 2 looked great tbh, especially when standing still - no obvious compression/artifacts on screen and it sounded good too. Not that we had one side by side, but almost indistinguishable from an Xbox or playstation in terms of looks.
It wasn't a great experience though, purely because of the input lag. This is obviously a personal thing as not everyone is sensitive to it, but I found that trying to turn the character just felt laggy..some fairly obvious "snap" effects at times. Strangely enough it felt worse when out in the open exploring rather than mid firefight, but either way, it felt off almost from the start.
Imo it wasn't good enough for fast paced gaming (can't imagine just how horrible it would be playing something as fluid as Doom eternal on it!) but would be fine for more casual, slower paced puzzle games or even RTS (if you had a keyboard/mouse).
Add on top the fact you have to buy all your games again at inflated prices to use them on the service and I just don't see a future for it. The Geforce now model is much better and quite frankly the service works better for me - I can genuinely have a competitive game of PUBG on Geforce Now and although there was noticeably more compression that Stadia, the input lag was almost zero...certainly low enough for me.
I feel sorry for those duped by Google in a way - massive missed opportunity. I am sure Google will work to reduce input lag etc but users will likely abandon it before that point imo.
Zak33 (31-03-2020)
Cheers Spud1.. that mirrors the only one person who I know tried it.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...ag-is-too-high
Lag a killer here too.
Although not Stadia, xCloud works great in my own experience on my phone using MS' servers for Halo 5.
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
Nope
I gave it a try a while back when they were offering it free. Was actually a lot better than I expected in terms of latency, but still noticeable in some instances.
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on stadia with promotion bandle controller and chromecast all for £49
to be honest it runs great, I was shocked how good it works on Stadia
I really did try it and gave up in the end, I just couldn't get used to the latency on my primary gaming system, I performed noticably worse and I'd get frustrated when the latency made me lose in game etc.
I no longer use stadia but I often do use GeForce Now if I'm away from home or not at my main PC. In those scenarios only I find game streaming is acceptable.
Tried out the trial just to check it out. It only had Destiny 2 or another Destiny for free and the game didn't capture me so I didn't bother continuing - I'm not going to pay for a digital game on a platform whose owners are chronic project killers.
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