RJpianist's Posts

I play Stadia with a Windows PC connected to a 1080p TV in my living room. (Or on my Chromebook if I'm in another room.) I like my TV just fine, and didn't really want to buy a 4K TV yet just to improve the look of Stadia. But, I only had integrated graphics, so couldn't force 4K. I got a GT 1030 card for $80, though, and I'm glad I did it. I changed my desktop size to 4k resolution, and now Stadia feeds me the 4k stream. It looks TONS better. I know that lots of people wish the 1080 stream used more bandwidth to provide a better quality image. That would have been ideal, but anyway, I'm glad I can use the 4k stream now. I see a huge difference even though my TV isn't actually 4k. Maybe when Android TV can run Stadia natively, I'll buy a new TV. In the meantime, this was a good compromise.

OMG. So I've been posting about my saga getting Stadia to work with my Chromebook. I was usb tethering my phone to deal with the stuttering of image and sound with my Chromebook. The PC has ethernet and was always perfect. This week I realized that at my girlfriend's house, I could play without tethering the phone, but still at my place, I had to tether. Finally dawned on me that changing the WiFi channel on my router might help since I live in an apartment in a very crowded area. OMG, it's night and day! No more problems! Something with the phone's WiFi radio gave it better performance than the Chromebook's radio. But now that I'm on a clear channel, the Chromebook radio does just fine. Phew, no more workarounds needed! Easiest app I found for figuring out what channel to use is WiFi Analyzer by "farproc" on the Google Play store. It has a screen that lets you easily see what channels are clear. Hallelujah!