Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Stadia Graphics Fuzzy

Playing on a 1GB down/up connection. No 4K (I believe that's intended) but the models appear very low res. The map/atmosphere appears perfect as well as spell effects. It's only the models on the map (non-cut scene) that appear very low res.

Fwiw I'm on Stadia and haven't seen this problem. Hope yours gets resolved.

Yeah, the game is not running in native 4k, I can confirm that. There is not an official announcement about the real resolution. Hopefully it will be improved later.

I wish we had more information about the actual resolution the game is running in Stadia and not the upscaled one.

Also, the game is blurring a little bit when you rotate the camera using the mouse 3.

I've seen those blurs on camera rotation too, despite 250Mbps connection, 4k.

Same here and textures take long to load.

Agreed on all points. I'm half tempted to get it on Steam just to compare the local install to the Stadia... then I realized I have four kids and a wife to take care of

That has nothing to do with your internet speed it is just the game that is not polished yet. It is more a problem on the server end.

The video blades are recoding and encoding the video, after sending it to you. If they get overloaded or if they can't process all the information in time. Your side will get blurry.

It's like a hiccup. That is why high fps is super important for streaming services. More frames, means less blurry and less latency when the fps drops.

I am sure it will gets much smoother closer to the final release. But I still would like to play it in 4k

I also could get it on steam as well. But I wanna be able play on my tv. Or laptop. That is one of the biggest reason I am always choosing stadia over steam games. I just don't wanna pay $60 again to check what the differences are. If anyone have the game in steam and is running 4k very high settings I would like to check it.

Im afraid I have some good news and some bad news about that. The good news is, that it is not related to the polish of the actual game. BG3 looks absolutely crisp on the Steam and GOG version. Sure, it certainly needs some more tinkering with popping in textures etc. but thats more related to driver optimization (not an expert on that, though. So dont quote me on it)

The bad news is that it is a well known issue with Stadia. Specifically with Stadia on PC. This blurriness and the movement pixelation also occurs in many other games on Stadia. It is not connected to your bandwidth. If you have the chance, use Stadia on your TV. For some reason it works well on every other Stadia option than in the Browser on PC. Even worse is, that it could be related to a lot of different issues that - generally speaking - are all solvable. For a little more clarification of the search for the problem, you could read this post:
Chrome Quality Issues

Google is aware of this and offers some solutions that are worth trying on their service page. Try the steps that are presented under "Troubleshoot device issues > Computer using Google Chrome". Here is a link that points you in the right direction:
Troubleshooting your Stadia experience

Other than the issues given by Google, there are several others. Here is an example that I found on Forbes. Quite an exotic problem:Third Time's The Charm: How Google And I Finally Fixed Stadia

If these fixes dont help, I highly suggest using the Stadia+ Extension in Chrome. With this, you can force 4k, change the stream decoding, or simply use and overlay to monitor your connection, FPS etc. It even adds a search bar to the Stadia homepage (weird that Google didnt do this in the first place). Here is a link to Stadia+
Chrome Web Store: Stadia+ Extension

There are several more fixes that are out there but I think one of those will fix it for you. If not then be sure to keep me posted on your progress.

Good luck

Sorry, I am not posting here to contradict you. Just want, to clarify better some parts of it.



This problem comparation you are making doesn't apply for streaming service. ESO for example had exactly the same problem when it lunched in Stadia. Now it looks beautiful and crispy. As per my post above, blurriness will always happen when the game is not optimized well for Stadia. This is not related to the pc version of the game, it is about polishing the Stadia version to a framarate that doesn't impair the video encoding process. Also the game is running much better using DirectX 11 for now, even though Laurian studio is recommending Vulcan. It's just a older and easier API to use. Stadia API is Vulcan only, and it is harder to use because is newer for many developers.



That is actually a different problem. The link you posted is talking about some possible Network performance and Google Chrome Browser issues. Most of these blurriness are caused by lag on the user end. The blurriness we are talking about is caused by rendering problems and lack of optimization. For example, I've experience lag using Stadia because a issue with Nvidia cards drivers and Vsync in the Chrome Browser, but this is not related to BG3 current problem. If you have any problem like that, let me know and I can help you to solve it.




That wouldn't be a solution for this problem because Stadia needs VP9 hardware acceleration to works in 4K. Thus, forcing VP9 in this case would not change anything. Additionally, that could become a huge problem for who does have a older hardware that does not support VP9 hardware decoding. It would only increase drastically their input lag. That is because the streaming will be decoded in a software level and not hardware anymore.

Before doing as you recommended I would suggest to check if your computer has hardware VP9 decoding by typing chrome://gpu in your address bar. If you find hardware VP9 decoding available there in the list and you don't have a 4k monitor, that is a great suggestion to improve the image quality. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend to do it.

Sorry again if it sounds like I am being harsh on you. My intentions here is just to help people understand better how this technology works.

Hope this helps and I am always here to help troubleshooting any problems you might have with Stadia.

No worries. I'm quite happy with your reply. It's always good to hear from people who actually understand what's going on. I myself can only regurgitate what I find online 🤠. You give some good pointers that I can look into. Thx a lot 😉

Glad you feel that way. I am just surprised that you understood my post. Even I couldn't understand it really well. Lol.

Anyhow, I edited and fixed it a little bit to be more understandable.

Hi there,

I have exactly the same issue. As everyone on Stadia. I am using an 4k Monitor and the game right now is very blurry in 4k. So I think at the Moment Larian is using upscaling from 1080p for the 4k mode.

Are there any Informations right now about when we can expect BG3 supports true 4k on Stadia?

Would be nice to get some official Infos about that from Larian.

I forgot to mention that Larian on PC currently recommends using DX11 instead of Vulkan. Could it be that Vulkan is currently so badly optimized that 4k just doesn't run properly with it?

That is very possible. I believe they will, specially when Vulkan is crashing less. Stadia has more than power enough to run this game in 4k. But I guess their priority now is stability and fixing the PC version where is the largest audience. So the must have caped the game 2k 30fps, or even lower resolution.

Honestly the game for me looks beautiful in my tv. Ithe resolucyion only bug me when I am playing in my PC. ( In the case of this game, all the time ). I almost finished the content is out. I guess I will wait a month or two and start the game again. I really loved it despite of all bugs.