topic Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes in Stadia General

Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

TekoRaiK — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:41:02 GMT

When I see darkness scenes, sky or in the night gameplays I see a low quality in the color palette.

You can see an example of Destiny 2 here:

https://imgur.com/a/Apihsar

In some cases there's not a problem, but in the night scenes (for example in Red Dead Redemption 2) is unacceptable.

Someone who can also see this?

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

codesplice — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:00:19 GMT

@TekoRaiK I've noticed a bit of that in Destiny, particularly when playing on my phone at low brightness (which I suppose is to be expected). Are you seeing this on Chrome and/or Chromecast? Does disabling HDR in the Stadia app have any effect on this?

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

TekoRaiK — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:27:18 GMT

The effect is more visible in chrome, but I can appreciate it in chromecast ultra too (it's a bit annoying sometimes). I tried to disable HDR and I still see the same effect.

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

codesplice — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:33:06 GMT

@TekoRaiK Any change when adjusting the quality settings between Best Quality and Balanced?

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

TekoRaiK — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:49:58 GMT

No. The same effect, I tried just now

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

codesplice — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:32:06 GMT

@TekoRaiK Thanks for checking. I wonder why I haven't noticed this either on my Chromebook or Chromecast - though maybe I will now that I'm aware of you having the issue.

Please also be sure to report the experience directly via the in-app Send feedback option.

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

TekoRaiK — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:40:46 GMT

You can notice that issue when you look the night sky in Destiny 2 or Red Dead Redemption 2. I will inform through "Send Feedback" option. But I want to know if is a problem with my connection or there are other people with the same issue.

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

codesplice — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:01:46 GMT

@TekoRaiK For what it's worth, it's not just you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/ebptpq/anyone_else_playing_rdr2_notice_the_darkblack/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/e6e65z/artefacts_on_dark_scenes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/dzd0ga/gylt_fun_but_streaming_algorithm_is_terrible_in/

So yeah, sounds like it's likely due to the video compression being used. That seems like something that Google should be able to tweak as we go.

Re: Low quality and compression poor color palette in darkness scenes

Deathwysh — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:28:39 GMT

I noticed this. Rdr2 is acceptable on my 4k tv but the 1080p version looks like complete garbage. It's blurry as hell in the day and barely even playable at night. I had this ga e for xbox one s and it looks much much better. I really want rockstar or google or whoever to fix this