Quoting: Linuxwarper

Quoting: dubigrasuYep, more ammunition (as if it wasn't enough already) for Stadia detractors, I can see them buzzing with excitement for this new opportunity.

Equally so for Stadia community. I've seen so very few if any posts on Stadia reddit about implication Stadia can have for local play. There is plenty circle jerk too in there and misinformation. Like how if you got a great connection Stadia will be good and no waiting, but the fact that a great connection would also significantly reduce the waiting period for local installation too. Or fact consoles have a "update in rest mode" function, which many consoles owners have not turned on. Then a Stadia supporter posts a picture of "X Download" for console and uses that to talk about how great Stadia is.

If Stadia community wants everyone on board they should strive to preserve peoples wishes; that is local play being an option. It does not mean Google needs to provide local releases, but their Stadia business should in no way affect local play on other platforms. But I bet you Google would not listen to such request. So for gamers you are either Stadia or not. More dividing of gamers. We had console and PC, now we have Stadia too.

These circle-jerking and misinformation you mention are common on many platforms reddit subs. They're present on all their glory on PS/XBOX/PCMR/etc subs, I don't expect Stadia's sub to be any better. People like to say the dumbest things in favor of (or against for that matter) Stadia. Not much to worry about.
It does suck though when some higher-up comes up with some dumb thing to say.

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Yep, more ammunition (as if it wasn't enough already) for Stadia detractors, I can see them buzzing with excitement for this new opportunity.

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Ark always looks so damn epic in their trailers, but I never got the same feeling in-game (plus, the weaker Linux graphics didn't helped). The Windows version (from what I understand) takes a lot more space on disk, something like 100GB or even more, so I gave up on it.
But since on Stadia is just click and play (and free), heck, I might give it another chance.

There are some rumors that Rust also might come to Stadia after the console versions are ready, but I have some doubts about that.

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Oh boy, oh boy...
Not so long ago I managed to overcome my addiction to Rust (3200 hrs), and I'm now in process to fight the addiction to Destiny (1100 hrs already). I really thought that I'm doing well, but now Stadia comes with this list...I'm starting to believe that they're truly evil.

On the picture posted, I was really curious what game is running on the second monitor, then I realized that is a fish tank. I need bigger and better glasses.

Also, please send help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VFkKOGcHs&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=airspeedmph [External Link]

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A bunch of Ubi titles (Farcry games, WatchDogs etc) are also coming:
https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-Community-Blog/Explore-hack-and-fight-your-way-through-Ubisoft-games-coming/ba-p/35870 [External Link]

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Quoting: bacattaIs there a way to test stadia for free ? without pro nor buying anything ?
Is the demos will be the solution next week ?

AFAIK you can try it for free (for a month).

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Looking forward to a Dead By Daylight livestream on GamingOnlinux Twitch.

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Quoting: MohandevirIs the hardware acceleration in Chromium solved? Read lots of stuff about that? Is it that much of a deal?

I haven't checked in the last month or so, but I doubt anything has changed. Last time I saw the bug report it was still labeled "Wontfix". Luckily many distros have a vaapi enabled chromium in their repos, or a ppa for *buntu ones.

Fortunately hardware acceleration doesn't do any kind of magic to image quality (in practice I haven't seen any difference), it just speeds up the process.
Basically you just need the stream decoded as fast as possible, one way (GPU) or another (CPU).
You do need a good CPU for this though.

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What you're describing sounds more like 720p or/with H264. Stadia drops to that if it considers the connection not good enough (even if you started with 1080p or higher). Doesn't change the codec mid-run though, only the resolution.

I have a 27" and image quality is great with 1080p and VP9. I can sometimes briefly see artifacts on darker images, but that's about it.
Consider using StadiaEnhanced instead of Stadia+, to monitor or set the quality. It does pretty much the same things, but it remembers the settings between runs and can force higher resolutions.

As for the topic at hand, there's one thing that Stadia does "wrong" here, they may have their reasons...I dunno, but this free week is still behind the Pro subscription, so not much of a free- week. If they use free-week as a bait to catch future customers, well, they need to go fishing in a bigger pond, as in in make it actually free for all.

I added here an example of 720p+H264 vs 1440p+VP9 (use the slider):
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=0439cee4-fe06-11ea-bf88-a15b6c7adf9a [External Link]
Also one thing to mention, the difference is much more dramatic in motion, that is actual gameplay.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatbut let me add something... everyone is saying that AMD drivers were trash, but the last Nvidia card I used was a Geforce 440MX, I give you that when it was ATI and not AMD it was a mess, but when AMD started getting the management the fglrx driver improved a lot I guess since the HD 3xxx series or so. I've been gaming on AMD since then, and I give you that it was a worse experience, (with ATI it was a disaster) but with AMD it wasn't that bad, it was totally possible to have a decent gaming experience. And since the gallium drivers things kept getting better and better.

So I take it that is specifically about fglrx here.

Well, I'm also a bit annoyed when I see fglrx categorized as trash, is like people like to go only to extremes, with awesome and trash and the like being the only vocabulary options, and nothing in between.

In all fairness IMO fglrx was usable, or yes, decent. When Steam introduced the Linux client I had a AMD HD6990 in my system. Now, the HD6990 was a good card at the time (at launch it was touted as "Simply the most powerful card in the world", imagine that) but on Linux only one of the two GPUs was working (Crossfire crap and all that), and performance was significantly reduced.
Nevertheless, fglrx did managed to run all the Linux games I had, with just minor issues. Good times.

Afterwards I switched to a HD7970, which did much better (again with fglrx) and eventually went back to Nvidia, but yes, for as long as I used it, fglrx served me well and hardly deserves the label "trash".

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