'Doom Eternal' won't be true 4K on Stadia despite early promises

[Andrew]

When Google unveiled Stadia, id Software proudly proclaimed that Doom Eternal would be a marquee title that ran in "true 4K" on the game streaming service. Flash forward a year, however, and that's no longer true. A launch data sheet for Doom Eternal has revealed that the Stadia version of the hellish first-person shooter will run at 1800p upscaled to 4K. That's still much higher-resolution than 1080p and will include perks like 60 frames per second and HDR, but it also means you won't get better performance than an Xbox One X player.

 

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Not surprised, true 4K streaming would certainly require some serious horsepower at Google's end if you are serving hundreds or thousands of 4K streams simultaneously.

[Andrew]

I don't even think it's a problem on their end. You need obscene amounts of bandwidth to get actual 4K 60fps gameplay at decent quality. I'm not sure how well it matches up, but 4K 60fps uncompressed video is huge. I have a 35 second 4K 30fps video that's pretty compressed and it takes up 300MB or 68.5Mbps. Realistically I think to get 4K 60fps with decent compression, you'd need at least 400-500Mbps download without any overhead, so maybe around 600-700Mbps. There really aren't that many people out there with that kind of speed.

[ENTERPRISE]

I don't even think it's a problem on their end. You need obscene amounts of bandwidth to get actual 4K 60fps gameplay at decent quality. I'm not sure how well it matches up, but 4K 60fps uncompressed video is huge. I have a 35 second 4K 30fps video that's pretty compressed and it takes up 300MB or 68.5Mbps. Realistically I think to get 4K 60fps with decent compression, you'd need at least 400-500Mbps download without any overhead, so maybe around 600-700Mbps. There really aren't that many people out there with that kind of speed.

 

No doubt that your connection would have to be a good one to get 4K 60Fps without having so much compression that the quality is degraded. Most of us here in the UK would not have a decent enough connection. For such a small country considering our economic status, we should be one of the best in the world for connectivity.