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LuisRafael96
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia APP full screen

when is there going to be an update where you can use full screen, enjoy the whole screen, will there be that in the near future?

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JohnZoidberg
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

Hello @LuisRafael96 

I assume you're referring to game play with this question. Stadia has a unique feature of being able to start a game on one device and move that game-play session to other devices (e.g., televisions, computers, phones tablets, etc.). The games themselves aren't impacted by these transitions – they just pause and unpause while Stadia takes care of the change in stream encoding and destination. In order to make this work, the aspect ratio of all of those devices needs to match. So, the 16:9 aspect ratio of typical televisions is the one that Stadia uses on all devices. The result is some unused space on the left and right side of the screen when playing on a device that has a wider screen like most phones and ultra-wide PC monitors or unused space on the top and bottom of the screen when playing on a device like an iPad that is a bit more squarish. In short, for Stadia to support aspect ratios other than 16:9, the game developers would have to incorporate support for dynamically-changing the aspect ratio, whereas today, the game just needs to know the original resolution when it starts. So, this isn't impossible, but it may not be at the top of the list of priorities given it would impact every game. All of that said, if this is something that is important to you, please use the "Feedback" feature in the app to let Google know.

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