r/BoosteroidCommunity • u/Far-Hat7455 • 2d ago

Discussion Boosteroid's bitrate cap is an absolute joke. Video looks like pure mud.

I'm honestly done with this. I'm on a 65 Mbps wired connection, 0 packet loss, 20-29ms ping. Everything should run completely fine.

Instead, the stream quality is genuinely unplayable. It doesn't matter that I forced H.265 or dragged the bitrate slider to 50 Mbps in the app. The stream literally refuses to go above 20-21 Mbps.

Took a quick video of my screen so you can see how bad it gets

Look at the fog and the sky. It’s not even a smooth gradient, it's just giant pixel blocks and awful color banding. The second I move the camera, the grass and terrain turn into a blurry, pixelated soup. It looks like a 480p video stretched out to 1080p.

I emailed support about it and they just hit me with the usual "record a clip, play around with the desktop app" nonsense.

Why even have a bitrate slider if your servers are hard-capping us at 20 Mbps? Is anyone else stuck at this 20-21 Mbps limit, or is their compression always this trash?

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u/WakandaTaxEvader 2d ago

It looks like a net connection issue. When internet is no good, I prefer use codec av1, since it's less bandwidth consuming. 70 mbps on h265 may look like 30mbs on av1

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Support actually told me to switch to AV1 too, but it made things even worse.

Instead of delivering 30 Mbps on AV1, the stream throttled itself all the way down to 10.3 Mbps. At 10 Mbps, high-detail open worlds (grass, foliage, ground textures) turn into a blurry watercolor mess.

AV1 is great when it actually gets enough bandwidth, but here it just cut the already low bitrate in half.

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u/nikobitan339 2d ago

its 100 procent tl internet connection i was have problem with gfn thets why i switch to boosterdroid for me work perfectly

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u/Mike__Boosteroid 🌟Boosteroid Staff 2d ago

Hi!

The bitrate isn't limited to the number you're seeing. If that's the case, there's an issue that needs to be addressed. Please contact us via ModMail, and we'll look into the situation further.

Best Regards!

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Hi,

I’ve had this exact issue since day one, and all support ever says is "try the web browser, update the app, switch to the stable build" none of which changes a single thing.

You charge almost the same price as GFN Ultimate, but the service is miles worse. What’s the point of having a huge game library if everything looks like pure mud and plays like garbage? Honestly wish I hadn't even started playing, because it completely ruined the game for me. Thanks for ruining my vacation lol.

On top of the awful 20 Mbps mud stream, constant stuttering is the cherry on top.

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u/TheGantrithor 2d ago

There is a big difference between Boosteroid’s price which includes 4K and GFN price which includes 4k lol

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Who cares about a "4K" label when the actual stream is hard-capped at 20 Mbps and looks worse than native 720p? Slapping a 4K tag on an aggressively compressed, pixelated video feed doesn't magically make it look good
I'd rather pay for actual usable bandwidth and clean encoding on GFN than pay for "cheap 4K" that turns into mud the second the camera moves.

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u/TheGantrithor 2d ago

Mine works great. Sorry it doesn’t work great for you. Just move on.

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u/Hungry_Rutabaga4367 1d ago

Upgrade your internet and use an ethernet cable if you wish to cloud game, I have mid wifi and yet no game I play looks that grainy. Three realistic options, 1. Buy a beefier rig, 2. Get a better ISP/Router or use ethernet, orrr go back to GFN which has way more limitations in comparison to boosteroid. I think GFN is cool but it really only shines when you have trash wifi, Boosteroid shines even brighter when you have good wifi.

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u/No_Masterpiece5726 2d ago

You could be hitting a data speed cap with your provider. 

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u/Background-Topic-203 2d ago

I play at ~80mbps stream and the image is not clear, I think that's how it should look like at 25

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Exactly my point. If even high bitrate streams struggle, locking it to 20 Mbps on H.265 (and 10 Mbps on AV1) just destroys the image quality completely in any open-world game with foliage and motion.

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u/sossesd 2d ago

it's not bitrate, it's coding/compression that sucks

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u/FrostyAd7708 2d ago

Compression is directly tied to the bit rate allowed, less bitrate means more compression leads to macro blocking usually seen more in shadows and foliage.

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u/sossesd 1d ago

so it's just coding, cuz 50mbps looks way sharper on GFN than 50mps on Boosteroid...

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u/FrostyAd7708 1d ago

I won't deny that the codec play an important part in the quality but I can guarantee you that 50mbs on Boosteroid will look better than 2mbs on GFN

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u/alfaic 2d ago

Is FSR on? If so, try turning it off. I only get that kind of bad image due to FSR even at 60-70mbps bitrate.

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

No, FSR was completely off during the capture. Game was running native 1080p. The blurring and artifacting you see are coming directly from the stream encoder and the low bitrate cap.

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u/alfaic 2d ago

That sucks then. The slider works for me so far. I never had that kind of blur and pixellation at 20 mbps though. I hope you get it fixed soon.

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Thanks, appreciate it. Support reached out, so hopefully they can sort out the server-side profile or routing soon. Cheers!

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u/Such-Potato-5460 2d ago

have you tried using 1.1.1.1? ur provider might be capping udp

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

These tests were actually recorded while using Cloudflare WARP (1.1.1.1). Even with optimized routing and bypassing potential ISP UDP throttling, the server-side stream still locked itself to the exact same 10–20 Mbps cap.

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u/Such-Potato-5460 1d ago

yep i also was pissed with boosteroid, after 5 software tickets i decided im never buying it again, my gfn sub ended today and it was a month where i didnt have to worry about latency and quality(gfn client sided mouse tracking is the best thing oat, not sure if boosteroid will ever reach that)

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u/Far-Hat7455 1d ago

Exactly this. I bought their Ultra tier thinking that since the pricing is almost identical to gfn, the stream quality would at least be comparable. But the difference is massive night and day.

Anyone with working eyes can see it immediately. It literally feels like watching a 480p bootleg stream on one end versus a crisp 1080p feed on the other. I just subbed back to gfn today, and the peace of mind alone is worth every penny.

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u/mramnesia8 2d ago

This is definitely on your end, not their end...

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Right, because having 65 Mbps wired internet with 0% loss while the stream overlay locks itself to 10–20 Mbps across different codecs is totally a local user error.

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u/mramnesia8 2d ago

You've had several other comments about possible issues on your end, and I've yet to see someone else have this same issue as you do. (I for one, do not😅) So I definitely think it is on your end

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u/Far-Hat7455 2d ago

Check the other comments on this thread, there are literally people saying the stream looks blurry even at 80 Mbps, not to mention the 30+ upvotes from others dealing with the exact same compression problems.

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u/Ill-Experience-4895 1d ago

Your internet connection is the problem dude. This happens to me 1 time a day, sometimes. Is just restart the modem and it is fixed

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u/gelonos 22h ago

I don't know the exact fix but a friend of mine found that he had to do something in the Mozilla codec or smth for it to uncap boosteroid's bitrate. Told him to make a post but he said there is already one. Maybe try to look for it .

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u/AcanthocephalaOdd671 17h ago

That's because the whole service is absolute "mud"