Re:Google's Stadia Problem
by bluefirebrand on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:37PM
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I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency.
It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for people who live relatively near a datacenter or have extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.
I live in Finland, I don't think we are a priority country when it comes to Google's datacenters. We have geniunely unlimited data caps though which helps for sure.
I've been playing on wifi with a 100/10 Mbps connection. There's sometimes these lagspikes if I play in browser, but the general input latency has never been something I've noticed.
I'm a casual gamer at most, and maybe I'm not noticing it as much as some CSGO-pro would.
Bandwidth, data cap and latency are orthogonal to each other
There is a large Google datacenter in Finland.
The latency issue seems to be a bit of a myth; every discussion of Stadia is filled with people who assume it's a problem, and multiple Stadia users saying they've never encountered it.
Re:Google's Stadia Problem
by danielscrubs on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:45AM
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Selection bias, not myth.
Re:Google's Stadia Problem
by bluefirebrand on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:41PM
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Right. I would never even bother trying Stadia because my internet connection does not pass the minimum requirements. And because I'm in Canada, buying internet that would be fast enough would be pretty expensive.
So I have no idea what the input lag would be, but I can't imagine it would be any good.
But the implementation is shitty and it depends on the game and the devs on how "4K" the title is. Some games have no pro tier version, and some have like 1440p30. The free tier is 1080p60ish and you pay for the games you want.
Input latency is really a non-issue. I don't think there's more to it. It's just not something you have to think about — until you do, but it's been pretty rare for me.
Also you can play it on every desktop platform via Chrome, and via Safari on iPads and iPhones. Works on Android too.
And of course Google is going to kill it probably soon :)