Hello,
I've contacted the Stadia support few day ago because I've noticed that Watchdog was just unplayable with a mouse/keyboard. The support made me realize this was not an issue from Stadia or me, but from the game.
I though then "ok, they will probably fix that"
But today, I took advantage of the sales on Far Cry 5 to add it to my game list and... even less playable!!
It seem to run at not even 30FPS (without 4k!!) and have a HUGE input lag!
If _at least_ we could do something in the video settings...
What's going on seriously??
For information, I've made some test on Doom (2016) and it run smoothly at 60FPS obviously, with a mouse to screen lag of 50ms.
Edit: I've also made a test on one piece world seeker, frome wireless gamepad to screen, I got around 100 to 130ms of lag.
Hi @hwasser
I own and played Far Cry for over 50 hours on Stadia. It plays as it should. But some Ubisoft games have a issue with their Ubisoft connect overlay from time to time.
I just open the Ubisoft connect within the game to fix this. It does not always works but mostly it does... Strange issue... 🧐
Hi @Ledeste,
Sorry to hear you have a bad experience with some Ubisoft games.
As you already found out it is up to the developers to support 60 FPS with the games as the Stadia stream is 60 FPS.
I did try out Far Cry 5 a while back but only with a controller which seems to be fine.
So running Doom on Stadia is working ok or are you playing Doom locally?
How about Destiny 2?
I played a few Ubisoft games without issues like Division 2 and The Crew 2. ![]()
Yeah, I understand that it is up to the dev to implement a proper version of the game, but I was expecting Stadia to require a minimum degree of quality.
If FarCry5 was the first and only game that I tried I would think that Stadia was not a working product right now ![]()
(Oh and btw, I've made some advanced tests, and the lag is still "ok" at ~130ms but the game is indeed locked at 30FPS for some reason...)
And as we have to pay for games, its not very encouraging to add more of them to my library, knowing they might be unplayable...
Doom was tester on Stadia and locally. The 50ms was from stadia
you can see it here
https://youtu.be/PFdZfdyfjY4
You can also see the test made with One Piece on Stadia only
https://youtu.be/C-4wUaeyQWU
I've tested Destiny 2 in the same way, got around ~60ms of lag and it run at smooth 60FPS. So no issue here too.
https://youtu.be/ugZkSLWqlxU
I've also played The Crew 2 without noticing any major issue, but its not the kind of game where I would notice few lags
So my main complain here would be to not be able to expect some quality when buying a game. I mean, if the expected framerate was told, (or you know, if we could tweak the ingame options maybe..) it would still be an issue, but way less annoying at least ![]()
Ubisoft will not waste time or money fixing a game that only sold if you are lucky 1000 copys
And it wont sell more if they keep publishing game with very poor setup.
And for Far Cry 5, as my main complain is some stupid 30FPS lock, I dont this it would waste too much time from them to remove that...
But if Ubi dont want to sell more games, that's ok, but Stadia should let you know how well the build are then.
A limitation like a 30FPS lock should appear on the store page and a score about the overall latency could be great too.
Hello @Ledeste,
I agree with you so much. There should be a FPS annotation on the game page. Also a quality, as some games doesn't run in 4K even if you're running 4K. Seems like Assassin's Creed Origin also looks poor (720p ? 1080p ?) versus on Steam (4K ?), for example.
Also consider that the gameplay, sometimes, let gamers think there is input lag but it isn't.
For example, on Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I was thinking there were an input lag because Eivor react too slow to my input. I also have AC: Valhalla through the Ubisoft Launcher. Guess what ? It's the same running on Ubisoft Launcher (RTX 2070 Super) and Stadia.
On other side, I am playing Ys 8 & Ys 9, and Adol, the main character, react really fast, letting no doubt there isn't any input lag. It's just realism, not input lag, on some games. And, dunno why, we think the problem came from Stadia first before the games/devs. That's an error.
30 fps sucks!
Stadia sucks too
Yeah. I have the same experience. I would say that input lag on Doom is same as playing an FPS on your local computer with VSync on. Which is very good indeed. Though Farcry 5 was terrible, it feelt like you were drunk, the lag was like half a second or something. Like the definition of sluggish. I returned it after an hour of play. This is the first and only game I've ever returned on any platform.
How does Farcry 6 play? It is the same?
Hello @hwasser,
Got the same incident on FarCry 5 and I don't think it's linked to the 30 fps cap. Probably something else.
This video show FarCry 6 running in 30 fps with Stadia but it looks amazing. I didn't tried it by myself.
Ubisoft may be working on it as they updated Assassin's Creed Valhalla to run at 60 fps a few weeks (or months ?) ago.
No I dont think the 30 fps would have this much lag effect. There is something weird going on here. I read somewhere that the engine itself has high internal latency and my guess is that it gets worse in Stadia. Maybe their engine can’t run games in the cloud, or (hopefully) the port is just terrible.
Hi @hwasser
I own and played Far Cry for over 50 hours on Stadia. It plays as it should. But some Ubisoft games have a issue with their Ubisoft connect overlay from time to time.
I just open the Ubisoft connect within the game to fix this. It does not always works but mostly it does... Strange issue... 🧐
I read about that Ubisoft connectivity when searching for a solution before making the refund. Have they not fixed this yet? Since all bad Ubisoft ports I’ve tried and heard about on stadia they’re reputation as a company is seriously damaged for me. It always feels like a risk buying a Ubisoft game. Maybe they should look over this if they want to sell games on this platforms? It’s not ok to sell broken products.
Even game magazines have discovered this:
https://www.thegamer.com/far-cry-6-stadia-30-fps-low-graphic-settings/amp/
ah! I'm glade to see I'm not the only one here noticing this. Thanks a lot for the link ![]()
Hopefully Google sees this and gives Ubisoft a slap on the wrist. Stadia is my main gaming platform and I want it to improve and expand ![]()
I can't get AC Odyssey to run right now. It gets stuck on the "checking for additional content" screen and never moves beyond that.
Hi @Xevioso
Looks like a different issue but I also had this a few times. When searching for a solution it was a bug or a server timeout. Did you try to start the game multiple times?
Sorry missed this yesterday, but it tried a bunch of times. Eventually I gave up and just played Outriders, lol.
No problem @Xevioso ![]()
Outriders is also good fun with the latest update. ![]()