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Stadia overheating Chromecast Ultra units, causing shutdowns
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Well technically things shutting down due to overheating is what should happen. But why is it overheating in the first place?
The funniest thing about Stadia with all that talk how "On Stadia devs can do stuff impossible on local hardware" even tho Stadia have issues running games designed for 2013 lmao
That would only be an excuse if you could use something else on your TV, but you can't.
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some users are experiencing shutdowns after 10 or 20 minutes of playing, not exactly heavy usage.
And you need to buy said device to play on TV (in fact, you are forced to do so anyway, even if you don't want to play on TV because there's no way to JUST buy the stadia service) , so...
Google figured they wouldn't have to shut down Stadia if they could simply shut down all the devices that run it.
I wouldn't say playing games for a few hours is "heavy usage".
"Haha silly users, let us tell you why it's ok for it to shut down, no worries ;)"
Digital Foundry got the key, it's a matter of what streaming quality you choose:
Yea, but still, teeeeechnically it is a hardware issue with the Chromecast Ultra. :D
The whole thing is built around it and it's from the same company that you HAVE to use. What kind of excuses are these lol
4K's only a thing on the CCU at the moment
On a funny note, I still remember this post on Reddit that was praising Stadia because he'd never have overheating issues again... that didn't age well
But if your service literally couldn't run on the device it is primarily designed to be used on, your service definitely has a problem.
I didn't say otherwise. I'm just explaining mnz why that particular issue with RDR2 happens, Chromecast or not.
seems to me that it's probably that both the ultra and stadia service in combination cause this issue. playing youtube for the same amount of time doesn't cause this to happen as far as i know.
Is the input data going through the controller directly? If not maybe that is the problem? Should not be much but it is a steady upload stream.
I get what you're trying to get at, but as the issue is tied to a physical device overheating (Chromecast Ultra) - not exactly something standard consoles are exempt from (RROD being the classic example)
does it seem like a lack of QA on Google's part?
this is very likely to be fixable by a firmware update, but googles communication on the issue is beyond silly
I had it running AC:Odyssey for a good five hours the other day and it was fine, but maybe a little warm. I can maybe see it getting too hot if your house is very well heated, but this seems more like a bug to me - albeit a bad one.
Depends what's causing it I imagine. Given everything literally needs to happen at a certain speed to not impact latency it's not like you can spread out load or something. And this isn't even 4k60FPS yet.
So much this.
This has to be be one of the worst launches for a gaming product in a long time.
Have Google made any statements regarding Stadia since it launched? I'm not talking about only responding to critisicm, but in general regarding salesnumbers, plans for the future etc. Maybe too early to hear anything, but it feels like this service got deployed and then everyone took off.
i think it will be fixed but the question will be what they decide to do as a short term solution. optimization or regression? (the answer is regression)
The Stadia branding is attached, therefore its a Stadia issue.
But if it's just streaming... how is this creating a significantly higher workload than streaming TV? Because it streams at higher framerates? Something to do with controller inputs (so constantly uploading info at the same time as streaming)? I'm surprised that streaming games is creating so much extra stress for a device specifically designed for streaming.
Saw some comparisons, the device heated itself even more when streaming games rather when streaming 4k videos.