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Comment by nerfhammer

5 years ago

nvidia has a competing service that supports that title, and it honors your steam account instead of needing you to re-buy it

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/

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bogdan314  5 years ago

I used both. When time came to Play cyberpunk, I went for Stadia.

It runs a lot better (streaming quality, glitches, start-up times) are incredible. Using Stadia in general is a polished (yet basic) experience. In contrast Nvidia very much felt like a hack. Log-in in my steam account, seeing weird window glitches.

I see a lot of comments negative on stadia here,based on bias rather then actual experience. Stadia is nothing short of tech star even with its downsides compare to the rest of the market.

  • glenneroo  5 years ago

    I can't speak about Nvidia, but we just hosted a ~25 person LAN party at work and decided to go with Stadia... never again. Some people couldn't even make an account because they didn't have a credit card (even though we planned to mostly play free titles). Literally every game needed 20-40 minutes before we finally got everyone in - we never pinpointed the root cause, but a combination of restarting Chrome (emptying cache), relogging into Stadia, rebooting PCs and re-hosting a match, we managed to play a few titles. In a couple cases, we just gave up trying to get more than a handful of people in the game. Some people couldn't ever get their keyboard or mouse working in some titles (myself included, one game in particular was fine for awhile, then suddenly my mouse stopped registering in-game - rebooting and having the host restart the server didn't help - googling my issue says I'm not alone).

    Some of these titles I've played multiplayer via Steam without any of the related issues, granted Steam/Stadia is an apples/oranges comparison.

    At the end I suggested we try Armagetron. 2.7MB download and runs on Mac/Win/Linux/Potatoes. I started up a private server and we were running a 16-player game without any issues in literally 5 minutes.

xyzzy_plugh  5 years ago

Yeah I don't see how nVidia doesn't dominate this market. Their product just makes way more sense.

To even get on Stadia you have to port to their custom Linux distribution, which is a pretty huge ask for most games.

  • hnick  5 years ago

    Publishers specifically pulled out of Geforce Now because they didn't like the idea of people not having to buy the game again.

akiselev  5 years ago

Unfortunately Stadia is the only one that supports 4K (I'm a casual user of Nvidia's service since it was in beta)

  • Agingcoder  5 years ago

    Does 4k matter? The way you state it makes it sound like it's a major issue (disclaimer: I've never seen a 4k game)

    This is an honest question, since I don't game much (witcher 3, death stranding and a few point and click) , and regular 1080 doesn't bother me, so I'm genuinely curious.

    • Duralias  5 years ago

      Would describe Stadia 4k to be inline with native 1080p, at least when playing stadia in a browser. Stadia 4k may look better using a chromecast ultra, but I haven't tried that.

      And It is weird how resolutions are the focus in streaming when the most important thing is bitrate, feel like we need some kind of standard, because bitrate means nothing to most people.

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    • int_19h  5 years ago

      It depends on the game. Anything that has a lot of text or small icons - e.g. many strategies - benefits from high DPI in the same way desktop apps do.