Hi,
I am a long time Stadia user and never realy used the Screenshot feature much... I know how to use it and how to get to the Clips and Screenshot area but lately playing Cyberpunk and using the feature a bit more I noticed one thing which was a bit confusing for me...
If I play any game and scan the screen for artifacts I can find some... Thats ok for me... But I thought that this is related to the codec and compression and decompression which is happening...
So I thought that Screenshots are taken from the Server, not from the Client... And therefore thought that screenshots should be taken without artifacts... But this seems not to be the case.
If I take screenshots of darker areas with some lights in Cyberpunk for example, or from the Menu UI I can clearly see artifacts on the screenshots too.
Does that mean that Stadia games are rendered like that as well?
Example Screenshot:
Hello @DarklinkFighter
Screenshots are indeed taken from the server, but they are also compressed images, and that compression is a lossy format that will introduce similar artifacts to the video compression. It looks like they are stored in WebP format (which is the still image version of VP9), but can be converted to JPEG during download for more portability.
Hello @DarklinkFighter
Screenshots are indeed taken from the server, but they are also compressed images, and that compression is a lossy format that will introduce similar artifacts to the video compression. It looks like they are stored in WebP format (which is the still image version of VP9), but can be converted to JPEG during download for more portability.
@JohnZoidberg
Ahhh... You are right if I download the picture with the download button on the top right it indeed looks diffrent thank you ![]()