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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by krzyk on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:19PM (#21599061)
Subscription gets you "up to" 4k, right now none of the titles is true 4k, they are upscaled from lower resolution 1080p or 1440p.
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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by saynay on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:01PM (#21600174)
Yeah, that part is pretty crazy. I wonder if that is just up to the game developers, or if they were given a limited compute budget and the current 1080p / 1440p base resolutions were the best they could get? Maybe Stadia can't deliver the needed latencies at full native 4k?

Unless I am misunderstanding, the 4k up-res is happening on Google's side, so it's not like they are skimping on bandwidth.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by Traster on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:01PM (#21599571)
Upscaled on the device you already paid for, yet somehow need a subscription to use the upscaling.
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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by krzyk on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:23AM (#21603553)
No, it is upscaled on the google side, before it is sent over the net.
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