What is going on here?
I upgraded from the mi tv stick, i used to play 900p 60fps with few lost frames (0% to 3-4%) in hvec at around 20mbps and reasonable lag, usually under 40ms total.
I was expecting an upgrade but the much more capable chromecast is struggling. At 1080p i have a massive 50% lost frames and lag is almost doubled at 70ms, reducing resolution does not help, hvec or h264 is about the same, 30 fps is terrible and the imput lag increase even more.
I tried rainway (an alternative software to stream games locally) and it is even worse, struggling to reach even 20fps.
The cc is 4k60 capable and stadia runs very well on it, plex can stream very high bitrates without issues but any kind of local game streaming is absolutely unusable.
Steam Link app? I also had pretty bad performance with it. I tried finding more info and it basically seems to come down to the fact that it's an Android app made for phones, once they get around to optimizing it for the Chromecast specifically then it will be better.