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Gamedude12
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Stream Quality Looks Poor on my TV

I just received my Stadia Premiere Edition over the weekend and my experience so far with the service has been relatively disappointing. I’ve played 3 games so far and 2 out of the 3 look terrible on my TV. I have a 2019 Vizio P Series Quantum X (PX65-G1). Both F1 2020 and PUBG look grainy and have noticeable artifacts. However, I played Super Hot and this looks fine. I figured maybe it was my TV settings. I tried changing a few things around (using a different HDMI port, turning HDR off, changing the picture mode) none of this fixed the visual issues.

Maybe it’s my internet but I’m not 100% sure. I have Verizon Fios Gigabit Internet and the CCU is hard wired via Ethernet to my Fios home WiFi extender. The extender is wired via Coax. I’m playing Stadia in my basement and my router is all the way up stairs (why I use a range extender) despite this over WiFi I get about 386Mbps download and 229Mbps upload in my basement. So I really don’t think my internet would be the issue here? I also apparently have an “Excellent” connection when ever I check this in game. I also tried connecting the CCU to my WiFi instead of being wired to the extender and this made no difference.

Another strange thing I noticed is that whenever I boot up a game it looks very blurry and my connection status is “Ok”. After about a minute or two my connection changes to “Excellent” and the picture quality improves marginally.

I’m really not sure what the issue is here. Am I missing something, has anyone else experienced similar issues?

Super disappointed because I was really looking forward to jumping into Stadia.

Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.

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codesplice
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

@Gamedude12 It's possible that the WiFi extender could be causing some connection stability issues - I've seen that before. And, in any case, it's good to eliminate variables when troubleshooting problems.

Any chance you could try testing upstairs, near the router itself? 

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Gamedude12
Community Member

@codesplice Thanks for the reply! It’s strange it only appears to be certain games. In F1 2020 the artifacts are particularly bad. I also noticed that in Crayta. However, I played both Super Hot and Grid and they look fine. Really not sure what the problem could be?

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Gamedude12
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@codesplice you can see the artifacts when looking at the text in F1.

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codesplice
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Gold Stadia Guide

@Gamedude12  does it get any better or worse with adjusting the performance/resolution settings?

Do you see the same thing when playing Stadia on a computer?

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ElBennyto
Community Member

I have the same issue. According to https://projectstream.google.com/speedtest, I have over 70+ Mbps internet connection, but the picture looks like 720p (maybe less) in RDR2, Borderlands 3, Orcs Must Die, Strange Brigade. Especially it looks awful in Borderlands and RDR 2. I have 4K TV and I want have at least 1080p. I can have 720p from my laptop with not bad graphics. Subscribed to Stadia I was expected top notch graphics and best picture quality, like yours rivals GeForce NOW have. Instead I see squres and blurriness( It's not you want to see in not cheap games. And it's not depend on my screen resolution. I have same the results with 1080\1440\2160. Maybe you have a solution?

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Truth_Rising224
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Does anyone have a fix for this? I have a high end OLED tv and Cyberpunk looks terrible when I play on the premier edition on it. But when I play on a 1080p Laptop monitor it looks much better. There is no explanation I can think of for this, except that the premier edition is just a waste of money. 

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Barthandelus
Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Hello @Truth_Rising224,

I tried Cyberpunk 2077 on my TV, Gaming mode enabled, this one : https://www.amazon.fr/LG-Intelligente-75UK6200PLB-Ultra-S0420335/dp/B07GFJYKWN

Over Ethernet, no problem at all. It means it's not the game itself.

Over WiFi, I did have some problems. BPL also.

I think it's your connexion here. The only idea I have here (other than "moving the TV the most possible of the router") is to open Stadia ports on your router to give a try : 44700-44899 UDP.

Also if you have an ethernet cable, could you try to connect your TV to your router, just to test if you have problems ? Don't worry for the length of the cable. I'm using a 50 meters ethernet cable and it works well, lol.

EDIT : Also consider that having sufficient bandwich =/= stable connexion. This can also be the problem, that's why I aksed for the ethernet test.

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Truth_Rising224
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hi @Barthandelus,

Thanks for the tips. I haven’t tried Ethernet hardwired directly into the Chromecast Ultra but I can give it a shot. 

The strange thing is that my tv that I’m having issues on is right by my router. The connection also always showed as excellent on stadia while playing over the Chromecast / tv.

However, when I was streaming on my laptop, on another floor, the quality was much better.  As mentioned, my TV should be much higher quality than the laptop monitor (LG CX OLED), so I’m still quite confused as to why the quality is so poor, but I wonder if it really could just be the wifi signal over the Chromecast. 

I’ll try the hardwired approach though and see what happens. 

Thanks! 

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