Ian McLoughlin
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Recommended Hardware
For $45 total you can get a $30 AndroidTV box capable of running stim at 4K 120hz, and a $15 controller. We are grateful to have the opportunity to test hundreds of devices each year, some of which...
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What are "2X Data" Regions?
You may have longer than usual Slow Start loading times in 2X Data regions if you have not started a specific Cloud PC in that region for over 24 hours. Data consumed towards your data cap in these...
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Easter Egg – Enable 100GB of Temp Storage
On new Cloud PCs you can enable at least 100GB of temporary NVME storage by clicking this icon on the windows desktop of your Cloud PC Then you should then see this TEMP (T:) drive appear. Not...
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Pay As You Go Temporary Storage
Pay As You Go sessions have temporary storage which is deleted after your session (all games uninstalled and removed), unless you own a stim subscription. This includes cheaper storage-only subscri...
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Fast Start vs Cold Start
When your Cloud PC shows "Fast Start", it means that it is still stored on a GPU server in the selected region, and can be quickly started in under 60 seconds. (10-60 seconds). Cloud PCs whic...
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How To Fix Stuttering (Low FPS) on Apple Devices
AWDL almost always causes major recurring stuttering for Apple iPads & Macbooks when using 5Ghz Wifi if their router is not set to channel 149 (which is very common). This is because Apple switch...
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What Are Data Caps and Can They Be Extended?
Stim gives users 10-25Gbps internet speeds and stim pays for bandwidth. In some regions, Stim pays as much as $0.13 per GB for bandwidth. In one case, a single customer who installed a download man...
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How much bandwidth does stim use? (Stream Quality Tips)
Below are the bandwidth requirements (peak) for each stream quality setting. Note: Most of the time, the stream will use lower than the peak value, but this is the maximum bandwidth the stream can...
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Troubleshoot: "Frame-rate dropped to 0"
While in beta, many aspects of Stim are manual and not yet automated. When you see the “Framerate dropped to 0” error, it typically means that the streamer was able to connect but your device was u...
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How to resolve NAT issues
Stim opens a series of both TCP & UDP ports on your router for your device to communicate directly with your Cloud PC, making your connection a straight line and as low latency as possible. Somet...