Quoting: mylka

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: mylka

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: mylkawhen are they going to add some countries?
even nvidia now supports whole europoe

All suppositions from my part, but Google is extending its cloud regions to the central/east Europe, and is pretty close to open a data/compute/etc center in Warsaw, which is planned to be ready at the beginning of 2021.
So I suppose/hope this means new European countries added to the list and potential better latency. I'm currently using Stadia from a server (most likely) in Frankfurt, which is 1456 Km away from me, with a latency of 30ms. Warsaw is "only" 945 Km away, so, that'd be great.

GFN is also based in frankfurt (around 700km away from where i live), which works for me just fine, so i dont get it why i cant use stadia
their rigs are more or less in the same building, using the same internet connection, but i only allowed to use GFN

What do you mean you can't use Stadia, can't make an account?

it is not available in my country and i dont get why cause gfn works just fine

Is not available in my country either.
Try this (is the way I did it):

Add a free VPN extension to you Google Chrome. It doesn't matter which one, you will only needed it once, to access Stadia's registration page. Choose in the VPN settings whatever country that is supported by Stadia, reload Chrome and register on their page.
Once registered, discard the VPN (you don't need it anymore) and play normally. At 700 Km away from their server you should have an acceptable latency.
Again, don't try to play through a VPN, you don't need that.

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: mylkawhen are they going to add some countries?
even nvidia now supports whole europoe

All suppositions from my part, but Google is extending its cloud regions to the central/east Europe, and is pretty close to open a data/compute/etc center in Warsaw, which is planned to be ready at the beginning of 2021.
So I suppose/hope this means new European countries added to the list and potential better latency. I'm currently using Stadia from a server (most likely) in Frankfurt, which is 1456 Km away from me, with a latency of 30ms. Warsaw is "only" 945 Km away, so, that'd be great.

GFN is also based in frankfurt (around 700km away from where i live), which works for me just fine, so i dont get it why i cant use stadia
their rigs are more or less in the same building, using the same internet connection, but i only allowed to use GFN

What do you mean you can't use Stadia, can't make an account?

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Quoting: mylkawhen are they going to add some countries?
even nvidia now supports whole europoe

All suppositions from my part, but Google is extending its cloud regions to the central/east Europe, and is pretty close to open a data/compute/etc center in Warsaw, which is planned to be ready at the beginning of 2021.
So I suppose/hope this means new European countries added to the list and potential better latency. I'm currently using Stadia from a server (most likely) in Frankfurt, which is 1456 Km away from me, with a latency of 30ms. Warsaw is "only" 945 Km away, so, that'd be great.

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Talking about Stadia's Borderlands 3 though...this is the first time ever on Stadia when I notice stutter, and even some half-second freezes. I didn't played much, maybe 20 min, but in any case it did that few times.
Like I said, first time that I see this, usually is butter smooth.

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Quoting: Xaero_VincentWith GeForce NOW now working in Wine, there is little reason to use Stadia, except for maybe playing PUBG.

https://lutris.net/games/geforce-now/ [External Link]

I cannot ever see myself buying games off Stadia when those games cannot be installed and played locally. With Google's track record of killing off less successful products, your money spent on Stadia games is likely to be lost at some point. Subscribing and playing the free / included games is fine but again GFN has a much bigger selection of anti-cheat enabled titles, while everything else should be played in Proton / Wine.

There are some downsides to GFN compared to Stadia, at least at this moment and specifically through Wine.
One is that the color range is limited, as in no pure black&white (even on Windows) and as a result the colors are washed out. You can workaround it by adjusting the contrast, but that's just a compromise. That'll be OK for a TV, but not on a monitor.
The second one is increased latency when running through Wine, I get a round trip of 32ms on Windows and 48ms through Wine. On Stadia I get 30ms on both Windows or Linux (yep, the closest server is pretty far from me).
That being said, GFN is pretty much a WIP so things might change, although I don't know how the limited color range can be fixed.

Edit: Ah, I've meant to say GFN through Wine is WIP.

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Quoting: jens"define yourself by the things you love and not by the thing you hate"

Nice, who said that? (I see is a quote from something?)

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So I've seen what NGX can do and the results are really stunning, mind blowing. Definitely a leap forward, at least from my amateur/consumer point of view.
But I wonder what this "support" means for us (Linux). AFAIK all the available software was Windows only. Granted, I didn't looked too much into it.
Is there any functionality (as of right now) available for Linux, or at least planned? I mean, the support was implemented for a reason, no?

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Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: dubigrasuSo what to do, what to do...
Should I get Metro Exodus at a crazy good price on Stadia and play now, or wait until the Linux version comes up on Steam, sometimes in the future?
(btw, is it still coming to Linux?)

I'm waiting for the Linux native release even though I have it claimed on Stadia Pro. TBH the 30fps performance at 4K on Stadia is a bit hard to accept given the performance of other such Metro games on Linux.

The Linux depot [External Link] on steam was last updated 27 days ago. QA testing, perhaps?

What about 1080p though, does it work at 60fps? (really don't care about 4k fortunately)

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So what to do, what to do...
Should I get Metro Exodus at a crazy good price on Stadia and play now, or wait until the Linux version comes up on Steam, sometimes in the future?
(btw, is it still coming to Linux?)

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'm quite OK with the graphics, (no idea how it looks on PC) and I think it still look beautiful, but that being said, the 30 FPS lock is unacceptable for me. I'm not a gazillion FPS snob, but in this case I find the game truly unplayable, with that excessive motion blur thrown over the FPS lock... makes my head hurt and dizzy.
Very disappointed, I sort of finished Destiny and wanted to dive right away into ESO, but not this way. And like on consoles, you don't have video options to tune other than brightness/etc.

I didn't had any issues with the resolution, but indeed, Stadia badly needs some control panel/settings/whatever. I always have to have this annoying little dance with Stadia and Stadia+ before starting a session, to make sure it uses VP9.

Edit: So I looked a bit online and it looks like the FPS lock is also present on PC by default (and ofc on consoles). So, well... I can't blame Stadia itself too much for this. But at least on PC you can unlock it yourself.
Mind you though, I played games at 30 FPS before and it was OK, but the way is implemented here is a game breaker. If I could disable that motion blur at least...

Edit 2: On PC you'd need to edit the UserSettings.txt file to remove the cap, and I downloaded my Google data with the Stadia settings where I can see it uses the same file to store the settings. Ofc, you can't edit that. But apparently there's a way to remove the cap using the chat command: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=785105112 [External Link]
Not sure if it (still) works though, for the moment I keep getting a "unknown command" error, so it might not work with Stadia port or the syntax has changed.

You have always been able to set the FPS cap on to PC to 30, 60, or 90 and uncapped but some people like to set it to match their monitor for example 144 this requires editing the ini files which is what that steam link was talking about.

Well, I don't have the game on Steam to test and I assumed that Stadia uses the same file to alter the FPS, but in any case, it doesn't work. The in-chat "script" command doesn't appear if I use autocomplete, so (again, I assume) it must have been removed to prevent altering any settings modifications.

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