I've been a Stadia Founder from the start. I've had nothing but great experience with Stadia on my Big Screen OLED TV, but my computer has had nothing but issues. This is from the start.. I have been...
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I've been a Stadia Founder from the start. I've had nothing but great experience with Stadia on my Big Screen OLED TV, but my computer has had nothing but issues. This is from the start.. I have been on Stadia support since the beginning and they have been great, but clearly a small issue on my end. Want to say Thank you to their team, they have really good support! To the issue... I built this computer right before Stadia launched. It has been nothing but problems. I have been debugging it for a year now and come to the conclusion there is issues with the RTX 2080 card, and drivers and perhaps its faulty hardware involved but need to narrow it down as I have seen others with RTX 2080's and the same issue. So I make this thread to discuss the issues, troubleshooting done, and workarounds.... COMPLAINT. Stadia simply will not run on PC via Chrome without logging out after a minute... You start off with a green connection light.. after 10 seconds it goes yellow, then red.. finally disconnecting from game. This indicates a network issue, but in reality its not. I have replaced motherboards, cables, routers, rewired the house, and all kinds of things before narrowing the issue down. I finally hooked up my router to my phone and this gave some clues of being throttled, it simply showed it was always at 3 mbps (I'm on a gigabit connection testing at 900+ down and 900+ up) As of the latest Nvidia drivers 7/4/2020, the app freezes when using the Stadia interface requiring a hard reboot.. Known facts. 1. Its definitely related to the video card, perhaps something to do with decoding as it throttles the network to 3mbps when using Stadia and having this bug. 2. Small chance it has to do with RTX 2080 and Intel i7 8700k CPU as all other people who I have seen experience this same issue seem to also have this CPU. But because its a common beast gaming CPU, It's not conclusive by any means this chip is any part of the issue. After being on support with NVIDIA, a few tweaks to the 3D settings, and a drive hotfix from date of 7/24/2020 is available Version 451.85 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5046 (While i had success with this driver on live chat, 2 days later the issue came back to haunt me again... which is very odd... not sure how it could work one day then not the next.. unless I did not turn encoding back on like i thought or perhaps a computer reboot required the hardware encoding to kick in) A solution is to type this in chrome chrome://flags Disable the following two services: Hardware-accelerated video decode Hardware-accelerated video encode Obviously you want to use your GPU to do this, but for us, its broken, so at least we can get around and play Stadia games. As soon as you do this, your game will work fine, graphics will suffer because its using your CPU etc to decode the stream, but you have a good enough CPU so should be okay, just will see weird color issues from time to time etc... Nvidia gave me a few things to turn off by default but I forgot what those are, perhaps they can help, they don't affect any PC games, as the game itself will choose itself, but perhaps it helps Stadia players. If anyone has this settings from NVIDIA, please post, I have tried to recontact Nvidia, but for days now, i get no help in their live chat. If you have any recommendations on how we can further troubleshoot to see if its a driver/hardware issue or some other bug, please comment.