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ThOR27
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Stadia on a low end Chromebook

I've bought a very cheap chromebook this black friday, an Atom X5-E8000 with 2gb of ram. I didn't bought exactly to play Stadia, but I decided to give it a try.

It works, but there are small hiccups happening all the time (sometimes even complain about the connection quality), GPU usage sometimes goes up to 95%, but normally stays at 60%, and CPU is always around 45%. The game resolution goes from FullHD (I think, since my screen is a bit lower resolution than FullHD) and sometimes lower. It is almost playable, and I think a bit of optimization could do the trick to make this cheap chromebook to actually play stadia games.

It's not any network related issue, I think, because on the same network I play flawlessly on Chromecast, on MacBook and on my Linux PC.

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Valynor
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CPU/GPU are way too slow, it's a small miracle that it runs that well at all. 

The only thing you could try for improvement is running Stadia in a guest session so nothing else is putting load on the processor. 

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ThOR27
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For sure, but maybe if there is some kind of optimization, maybe reducing video FPS on weaker hardware we could have a much better experience :slightly_smiling_face: instead of pushing 60  FPS, a 30 FPS video will be a much less work for this cpu/gpu. This could also improve the experience in non optimized operating systems browsers (google-chrome vanilla on Linux) or no capable old computers (heard some people trying stadia on old macs) that needs to software decode the video.

 

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