Quoting: dubigrasuYes, the values I posted varies wildly depending on the time of the day, I suppose this high internet traffic that we see these days doesn't help much. Then again, for me Netflix's speed test consistently reports 1.0 Gbps, but their server is relatively close by.

Honestly, right now I don't think internet plays a part at all. Just tried again to see if the morning was better. Dropped some frames, but only in small bursts. The lag fest was variable continuous though. Like buffered mouse inputs that get replayed a second later, but faster to keep up. Even walking forward lagged by slowing down and then catching up quickly. That last one suggest can't have anything to do with input lag because there was no change in inputs. Servers are just not keeping up.

Then I tried to run GRID to see if a different game would make a difference. I got 720p (with Stadia+ set to 4K). So that pretty much confirms that there is a capacity problem.

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I had an unplayable amount of lag earlier this evening. Since latency was low and I wasn't dropping frames, it looked like the servers just couldn't up. Maybe they weren't quite ready for the free sign up.

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Quoting: SystemShockHi, maybe i got that all wrong but i don't think that this is the free "1080p only" "Stadia-Base-Version" we're all waiting for.
It's only Stadia-Pro free for 2 Months.
After that it'll cost again 9,99.

pls correct me if im wrong...

Correct. But if you don't pay after two months, you'll effectively have base left as you'll still be able to access your bought games. And I highly doubt they would close the store to you after that, but current former pro owners could confirm that.

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Quoting: Xpanderso its 14 countries only? where the F is the list of countries?...

I thought it might have been the countries that Stadia has released in, but that's purely a guess.

I signed up through the android app.

First opinions:
- defaults to 1080p, which looks quite bad on a 1440p screen. Installed Stadia+ to get 4K.
- Can't get the games/stadia/chromium to vsync so I get tearing.
- So far a consistent latency of 29-30 ms (as reported by Stadia+), which is pretty damn good.
- Edit: also, what on earth did they bind the menu to that is usually bound to ESC? Only managed to get there from the controller.

Anyway, need to solve the vsync thing first before I try more

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They should really do something about the default game though. You start a game, default world generator, and a very quick start. Where did I end up, some sort of needle like mountain sticking out of the water. Had to make a boat to actually get anywhere at some pace. Thing I noticed is that the world was dead. No animals, no enemies, nothing happening. Also, almost everything was steep slopes and weird geometry. Took me a good while to find anything remotely resembling flat land. Since there is no danger, just go dig some for some iron. And dig. And dig. Gave up after 70 blocks down because there was nothing and this was supposed to be a quick look. Also noticed that there was no off hand to hold a torch in. But it turns out that doesn't matter because holding a torch doesn't actually provide light.

If any new person would have tried it as a random thing, they would have given up by now. It might be a good platform for mods, but the default experience is not good and not helpful in attracting new players.

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If there is a chrome snap, I might give it a test run. Not really interested in the games that come with it, but still curious about the tech.

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Quoting: gojulI own all the X- games but not this one. Don't trust them anymore, but well, if I see more and more good reviews why not...

You can trust them to not deliver a complete game at launch. You can also trust them to not just give up on it. And if you trust the reviews, they turned away from the Rebirth gameplay.

I suppose this is the time to start over and replay this from the beginning!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: fagnerlnDiRT4 is SO GOOD... I'm really enjoying it, even on "simulator mode" isn't frustrating as Rally. I loved Dirt 2, but didn't like dirt 3. Dirt 4 is a proper sequel to 2.

I know right, I really don't get the problem people have with DiRT 4, thought it was great fun.

Promises I suppose. The suggested that it would have an option to get the same level of physics as Dirt Rally. But that was not the case and Dirt Rally players were obviously disappointed.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Pinguino

After multiple streaming services announced they were dropping their quality for a while, to help internet providers cope with so many more at home

What's the source on that?

I'm really surprised anyone hasn't heard about it. Practically all video streaming: disney, amazon, netflix and so on are reducing stream quality on Europe for a while. It's reported on basically any news site.

Netflix then denied it and said it was only reducing bandwidth, but not quality. As if that is actually possible. And even with that reduction, AMS-IX broke a record 8 Tbit/s last night.

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Quoting: EhvisAlso, I'm running on Nvidia and while it has specific issues with reprojection, it can still be made to work reasonable well. It takes a bit of research and configuration, but nothing that hasn't been know for a year.

Any pointers? I get terrible stutter in Alyx I could do without.

There are two major problems with reprojection on nvidia (well, at least on nvidia). Reprojected frames aren't correct, they appear like some sort of badly interpolated frame and as a solution they're worse than the problem. Second, for some reason reprojected frames appear to be injected even when frame times are consistently below the limit. So basically you need to avoid reprojection at all cost.

Things to do:
- Turn reprojection to "legacy". I'm not exactly sure what legacy is, but it seems to get rid of the unnecessary reprojection frames.
- Set your Index to 80 Hz so you have a bit more time for your frames. Trust me, the change to 80 Hz is minor compared to reprojection.
- Change your settings so that you don't exceed 12.5 ms frame times. In SteamVR you can set the rendering resolution. Seems to default to 150%, but lowering it to 100% seems to barely affect quality. This will mostly affect GPU load. Other than that, you need to experiment with the game settings. You may need to find some stuff to get the CPU load down as well.

Obviously there are also unsolvable problems. Proton shader compilation stutters are always a thing. I rarely see any shader downloads in Steam for VR games. Some games are just badly made. It requires quite a bit of expertise to make a game with stable frame times. A lot of stuff is just slapped together in Unity without thinking and it's a mess. And since we don't have motion smoothing to "fix" things, it will remain bad.

Edit:
Two other side points.
- Things seem to be very dependent on compositors. I think mutter is fine, but some definitely affect VR.
- Having a GSYNC display is a big issue. GSYNC (even after the so called fix) needs to be forced off with an "nvidia-settings" command (turning it off through the GUI is not enough).

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