Google Shutting Down Its Stadia Game Streaming Service

[Luke_Wolf]

YES! Please let this utterly idiotic concept stay dead this time.

[Jaxad0127]

Video and music streaming.

Those aren't interactive. No need for a good upstream connection and they can be buffered for more than a fraction of a second. Game streaming is far more demanding, like everything else to do with gaming.

[FireBurn]

Did anyone trust google not to do this? When I first heard about Stadia I just thought what's the point? Google will drop it in a few years - like almost every other one of their products

[Tuxie]

HDMI was never my concern. When I read up on how to get 4K monitor on Linux, and then second 4K 144Hz monitor on Linux, DP cable came up, that's what I purchased and its working like a charm without fail. Never had to deal with HDMI and whatever issues it may have. Research pays.

Good for you.

[piorunz]

That's why I precisely said HDMI. I used to run DP to my M28U with 4K 144Hz. But it only has 1 DP and now it's occupied by my MacBook Pro.

HDMI 2.1 is pretty much a won't fix at this point. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417 . It works wonders on Windows so I'm back to gaming on it.

HDMI was never my concern. When I read up on how to get 4K monitor on Linux, and then second 4K 144Hz monitor on Linux, DP cable came up, that's what I purchased and its working like a charm without fail. Never had to deal with HDMI and whatever issues it may have. Research pays.

[kpedersen]

With Steam you should know what you're getting into. Only the most naive believes you 'own' any games from Steam. It's more of a permanent rental instead.

Exactly, only a real twit would believe that they "own" a game from the Steam DRM platform. I would go so far to say it is an unspecified time limited rental more than "permanent" though.

However, for the Stadia, I feel I should get a "refund" for having to put up with all the wonkers online telling everyone me how the service will be around forever and that we just have slow internet, we're paranoid, blah, blah, verbal diarrhea, etc.

Just a big ol' fat waste of everyones time. But, its probably Unity3D next to go and then some years later probably Steam. Exciting!

[ElectricPrism]

Oh noeeesss!!!! If only someone could have predicted this exact outcome would happen! How could we have known!!!!!

[grung]

That's why I precisely said HDMI. I used to run DP to my M28U with 4K 144Hz. But it only has 1 DP and now it's occupied by my MacBook Pro.

HDMI 2.1 is pretty much a won't fix at this point. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417 . It works wonders on Windows so I'm back to gaming on it.

If you have a Mac just use USB-C connector on M28U it will charge it as well. (Assuming that you have relatively decent MacBook). It is display port over USB-C so win win.

[Zoxc]

I would add that even with a 100 mbps internet, which I think is still decent for first world countries, the moment you use more than 3-4 devices at home or do some other bandwidth heavy stuff like synchronizing cloud storage, you immediately run out of bandwidth and even light websites crawl and barely load.

This is a typical symptom of an ISP connection with bufferbloat which can grind things to a halt. It can be mostly addressed by SQM. Give Waveform's bufferbloat test a run.

[slagiewka]

Huh? I have 2x 4K monitors on DP cables, powered by AMD card. One 60Hz, one 144Hz. I game on 144Hz monitor, its great.

That's why I precisely said HDMI. I used to run DP to my M28U with 4K 144Hz. But it only has 1 DP and now it's occupied by my MacBook Pro.

HDMI 2.1 is pretty much a won't fix at this point. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417 . It works wonders on Windows so I'm back to gaming on it.