Re: Calling GNU/Linux users.

icg837 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:28:47 GMT

Hello. I'll post my experience so far with this trouble.

I'm using Arch Linux right now. Before I was using Manjaro, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. On every distro, using or Chromium or Google Chrome or Brave, installing vaapi or video-intel or whatever package (or even with no install), and enabling hardware acceleration in every browser with whatever video render package I could install, I was unable to use Stadia at 1080p. For the record, I'm using a Mac Mini, and this is not a problem because I could play Stadia with Microsoft Edge at 1080p smoothly, but for other reasons I couldn't use Windows as I wanted.

And this is not a problem of Linux, besides this problem being present on every Linux distro I used. I say that because I'm using Chromium OS right now, which is based on Linux, and I can use Stadia at 1080p smoothly, installing no obsucre packages at all and doing nothing but execute Chromium browser and ready to go.

I don't know who is to blame or who has the ultimate responsibility, but it's a pain reboot to Chromium OS and afterwards reboot to my Linux distro, and so on.

Windows at 1080, Linux at 720?

icg837 — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:48:09 GMT

Hello.

I've found this issue recenlty, when I was trying Windows 10 on my Mac Mini 2016. For the record, I wiped out MacOS completely in favour of Linux two years ago.

The point is, it doesn't matter which browser I'm using (Google Chrome/Chromium/Brave...), Linux (currently Debian) only can play Stadia at 720 with ethernet connection and 100mb up/down. 1080 is totally unplayable. I've tried every tip over the Internet, and nothing worked.

So, as I said, I was trying Windows 10, and I was curious, so I've installed the new Edge version, and tried Stadia on it. And to my surprise, I was able to play Stadia at 1080 with absolutely no issues. Great detail and fully playable and enjoyable. The same with other Chromium based browsers.

So, my question. Why is it possible that I can play Stadia at 1080 on Windows, and I can't do the same on Linux, using the same machine? Any tips or something?

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Re: Calling GNU/Linux users.

Windows at 1080, Linux at 720?