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Stadia in Chromium GNU/Linux: game never start before press play button.

Fenixian — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:29:13 GMT

Hi.

I'm trying to run Stadia in my Debian box (a kind old one machine) with Chromium. I'm concern about the no video hardware acceleration decode in GNU/Linux :(, but I'd like to test.

I'm getting a weird problem. When I press the play button, the game never start, it is showed a circle turning on the botton left of the screen and after some seconds it is showed a message saying the game cannot be able to run.

The strange thing is that with Vivaldi the game run. With lot of input lag and screen issues, but run.

Anyone has run into the same issue?

Thanks.

Re: Stadia in Chromium GNU/Linux: game never start before press play button.

Tobonaut — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:43:37 GMT

Hi @Fenixian,

what version of Chromium do you use? Stadia required the latest one. Nevertheless Chromium is officially not supported, that means not that it would not run but it is not guaranteed.

Maybe this Reddit thread could help you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/e2fdwt/stadia_experience_on_linux/

Please let us know about your findings.

Re: Stadia in Chromium GNU/Linux: game never start before press play button.

Fenixian — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:18:45 GMT

Hi, @Tobonaut . Thanks for the answer.

I'm using Debian repository Chromium package, version 81.0.4044.92 (I think version is alined with Chromium upstream version number). It is not the last version, I suspect (when I saw it working in last Vivaldi version) that could be the reason as you said, but it should be the same version Ubuntu uses for Chromium with vaapi activated. So if Chromium 79.x.x.x works, it seems it should work with 81.x.x.x.

Unfortunately, that snap chromium vaapi (mentioned in Reddit thread) is not currently available, so I can't test it. And I'm trying to avoid compile Chromium myself.

I understand only Chrome is supported.

Thanks again for your answer.

Re: Stadia in Chromium GNU/Linux: game never start before press play button.

Fenixian — Sun, 10 May 2020 11:18:47 GMT

In case anyone enter here with the same problem:

It was a codec problem. Chromium don't use private H264 codec, so you need to change to VP9 codec as say here: https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-on-Chrome/Tip-Increase-Stream-Quality-on-Chrome/td-p/12199

Now Stadia run the game... but it is not playable. But that is a video cards manufacturers problem with hardware video acceleration in GNU/Linux. I hope this situation change soon.