A couple days ago I made a post about xCloud and talked about how clarity boost is practically essential because of the low bitrate.
So I decided to make a video to showcase the difference between using it and not.
The video is pretty boring, but I feel like it can be somewhat useful if someone is deciding if they should download Edge Canary just for this.
I can see some people prefering to have Clarity Boost off, specially in small screens, but here I'm playing in 1080p on a 32inch TV and it looks horrendous with it off. Things just look terribly blurry.
While clarity boost isn't perfect, with it just feeling like a bad form of anti-aliasing, it still makes things a little bit more... Tolerable.
Well, now there's a video, so check it out for yourself if it's something that bothers you or not. I'm genuinely curious about what other people think.
Oh and by the way, I'm running this on a 500mbps connection through a 1gb cable. The image quality is bad because of Microsoft itself and it's something that has been heavily criticized. Although I do expect it to improve soon.
Video is also available on dtube, although the quality took a major hit.
The difference is even more pronounced on my end, the upload unfortunately took a hit but it's still noticeable.
Overall, I'm still really satisfied with xCloud, recently my 8GB sticks crapped itself and I can't play most of my games with just 4GBs, so xCloud has been a blessing.
I just wish MS would work on the bitrate or at least gave us more control over the quality and servers we're connecting to, but it may be that they simply don't have the necessary infrastructure for this to work well. In either case, time will still make things better. It has to, Microsoft needs to be competitive.
