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CursedImmortal
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Re: Stadia's Mediocre Graphical Prowess

I played metro last light redux last year on stadia's pro account as a free game. It looked average, like a last generation game. Textures were muddy and lighting was soft like a blur. A few months later during black friday, I purchased a budget gaming pc for $700 and played metro last light redux again. There was a huge difference in graphical fidelity. Every texture shimmered giving great detail. Crisp edges of rendered objects glimmered. For an older game from 2014, it looked gorgeous. My point is this, stadia should be a product for consumers who doesn't want to spend money on a high end gaming pc. It should have all settings turned up to maximum, especially for a game 7 years old. If you think the servers can't handle 4K, I don't need it. 1080p or even 720p is enough for me as long as every setting is in ultra. Better yet, et me lower the resolution and max out the graphical setting. An alternative solution would be to tune each game on a case by case basis. Older games which were released years ago, can use more graphical processing power compared to newer ones. When Stadia was announced, I imagined that I could play all games on ultra settings. This type of marketing angle, would attract all budget minded gamers such as console gamers. Google's greatest advantage over all other platforms ended up never being utilized. I wonder if Google executives even know what consumers want out of stadia.
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DaBaldEagul
Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Keep in mind Stadia doesn't run the PC version of games, but a specific Stadia version. If optimized, Stadia can have games look really nice (look at Cyberpunk 2077, for example). But, there's no graphics settings you can tweak. The graphics are solely defined by the amount of effort the developers put in to optimizing the game on Stadia.
-- Baldy
I am no Google official. My messages and opinions are my own, and should not be used to judge Google or their products. Silver and gold Guides are independent volunteers that like to help out on the forums.
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davetenay
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Yep, I noticed the same. It looks like Stadia version is set on medium detail. The same with RDR 2 that seems very blurry comparing to pc version. Which is surprising considering the hardware Stadia relies on.

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HatDroid
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

@davetenay The fact here is that the hardware doesn't matter if the port doesn't make use of it, as @DaBaldEagul suggested if you see how Cyberpunk 2077 runs there is no reason why older games run worst than that. The truth here is that developer responsible for porting games are still getting used to the architecture, think about PlayStation lifecycle, each generation first games was much lower in quality than latest games for the same reason, more time passes more time the developer have to better understand the boundary of the platform (and with Stadia we can only go better with time!)

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