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Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

Valentino — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:00:32 GMT

I'm having trouble playing Stadia on chrome. Playing with chromecast ultra on my tv, I have no problem and it's really cool. But on chrome I see pixelated and jerky images, practically unplayable. Now it is true that my pc is old, but I believed that Stadia was a sort of videostreaming and nothing more and I, on my pc, can easily see videostreaming like YouTube or Netflix.

My pc is an Intel quad core q6600 with 2.4Ghz, 8Gb ram ddr2 and video card Ati radeon 6800 HD with a internet connection FTTH to 1Gbps and connected to the router with an ethernet cable. The Os is a Windows 10

I tried to start chrome in anonymously mode, removed the chrome extensions, disabled any firewall and antivirus but Stadia is not usable.

thanks in advance for any help

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

codesplice — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:50:54 GMT

Does it play any better if you switch to the "Balanced" data usage profile?
https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9607891

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

Valentino — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:32:11 GMT

Thanks for the reply

The speed test of my connection, done with M-Lab, reports that:

"Your connection is not suitable for Stadia.
The download speed of 3,545 Mbps is less than the 10 Mbps recommended for streaming games on Stadia. Improve your internet connection and double check."

Which seems really strange to me since I have a 1Gbps FTTH fiber connection and the pc is connected to the router with an ethernet cable and not via wifi. I also deactivated the firewall and antivirius and others speed tests (e.g. fast.com by Netflix) report a speed of about 400Mbps.

In any case I changed the user profile mode to limited (it was already balanced) but unfortunately the result does not change.

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

codesplice — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:33:08 GMT

Interesting results with the M-Lab speed test. I do usually see those to be quite a bit slower than what's reported by other speed test sites but the results tend to better line up with the actual real-world usage. 3.5Mbps vs ~400Mbps is a HUGE difference though. But that also doesn't explain why your Chromecast experience is great.

Is your computer (and/or router) configured to use Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server?

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

Valentino — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:31:08 GMT

Hi codesplice,

your solution to change the DNS looks good. Now I can play pretty well on PC too.

About the M-lab connection speed test, I think in my case it's not a good test. Even after changing DNS, it continues to report a speed of 3-4 Mbps. This would mean downloading a file of few Gigabytes in hours and hours. I take a few minutes.

Thanks very much for your suggestion

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

codesplice — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:21:06 GMT

Weird that M-Lab is still so low but I'm glad to hear that changing your DNS helped!

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

RetroJimmyX — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:10:39 GMT

I'm having issues with Stadia in a Chrome browswer on two different Win 10 machines and done all the typical troubleshooting (incognito, no extensions, reinstalled chrome etc.). I noticed a post about using 8.8.8.8 as DNS, which is what I do - is the idea here then, that is what is causing an issue? It works on my mobile phone on the same network.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Problems playing with Stadia on chrome

codesplice — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:51:30 GMT

@RetroJimmyX I would think that using Google's DNS resolvers would avoid issues rather than introduce them. My network is configured to use 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 for upstream DNS and I don't have any problems with Stadia.

Are your Win10 machines connected with Ethernet or WiFi?