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McL0VIN
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Balanced Vs Best Visual Performance?

Most of the time I will be playing on my laptop or spare TV, neither of which are 4k. From what I've picked up from the reviews, when Stadia runs games at max resolution it restrictis framerate to 30FPS, but if you play at 1080p or below it will do 60 FPS. So if I'm playing on a CC ultra on a non-4k TV, would it be better to adjust the settings to balanced instead of best visual performance? It would seem a waste to lost the FPS to get Stadia to render games at a resolution that my TV can't display anyway. I'm hoping that on my laptop, Stadia would figure this out anyway and just opt for 1080p/60FPS. But when streaming to a CC Ultra which itself can handle 4k to even if the TV is connected to cannot then maybe Stadia wouldn't detect this? Be good to know how this works exactly, I'd rather just leave it at best visual and have Stadia figure it all out of possible. Data usage is not an issue for me, just trying to ensure the best experience across different screens.
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Fallout
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That's what I'm wondering too. Can I choose "Balanced" and it will use 1080p and 4K according to the device/connection, or do I need to choose "Best visual quality" to make sure that I'll get 4K?
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McL0VIN
Community Member

Yes I meant to add that too. If I leave it at balanced, will it go up to 4k after I switch back to my 4k TV, or does 'best visual quality' need to be selected before it will try this?
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BinaryJay
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

You need to set it to Best in order to get a 4K stream.  It will still drop the stream quality as needed according to what your connection quality at the time dictates regardless.  Setting it to a lower quality than balanced is simply a way of capping the bitrate in case someone has concerns about data usage.

Keep in mind that currently the only platform you can get a 4K stream on is via Chromecast, but support for this on other screens like the Chrome browser will be rolled out eventually.

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