Stadia Announces 4K Gaming Requirements

Google Stadia started rolling out 4K streaming support on the web earlier this month, enabling gamers to play a number of titles, such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Mortal Combat 11 and Filigree, in glorious 4K. While the feature was initially merely available to select users in the US equally part of a limited dissever-testing practise, it is now officially available to all users, provided, their PCs and broadband connections run across some basic criteria.

According to the official Google Stadia FAQ folio, users will be able to stream in 4K quality using Chrome on Chromebooks and Windows PCs with native support for video decoding in the VP9 format. You lot can bank check whether your PC supports decoding to VP9 by entering "chrome://gpu" in your Chrome accost bar, scrolling downwardly to "Video Acceleration Information". If you lot meet "Decode VP9", your estimator supports VP9 hardware decoding.

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Macs are not officially supported still considering Apple is yet to add back up for the VP9 codec. However, as pointed out by 9to5Google, Mac users can nonetheless enable 4K streaming using a third-party Chrome extension called Stadia+. Meanwhile, Google too says that support for HDR and 5.ane surround sound is "coming soon", but there's no ETA for that just nonetheless.

Streaming Google Stadia is 4K will besides require internet speeds of at least 35Mbps and a 4K monitor. Users can test their connection quality and resolution by pressing the 'Shift' and 'Tab' keys on their keyboard simultaneously or the 'Stadia' push button on their controller once a game is launched and and then select the 'Connection' pick. If the ultra high-res support is bachelor for a particular user, a '4K' label will appear nether the 'Data Usage' section, provided of course, both the connection and the device support the resolution.

Launched last Nov with just 12 games on board, Google'south Stadia game streaming service has since added a agglomeration of new titles to the platform, including 5 new games just this week. It was also originally limited to only a handful of Pixel smartphones, merely the company has now started to expand information technology to more than Android handsets, including dozens of devices from Samsung, Asus and Razer.