Question / Help 3440 x1440 downscale question

Kryshade

New Member
Hey all, new to OBS so hoping for some help. I've tried playing around with the different settings but I'm having an issue with things looking good. I've been playing around with Facebook Live streaming of PuBG and Rocket League but the feed just doesn't look right.

If I leave my base (canvas) resolution at 3440x1440 then the options for the downscale follow the ultrawide (21:9) format and it doesn't really translate well to a stream. If I force the output to 1280x720 everything looks sort of "squished" horizontally.

I plan on also streaming to Twitch once my setup is complete, but my question is how do I go about getting the best resolution for viewers? Would I change my base (canvas) resolution or leave it at 3440x1440? What setting should I use as the output (scaled) resolution? Should I also use the "Rescale output" box under the "output" tab or is using both messing things up? I know there's also the option to "fit to screen" under the game capture window but not sure if the combination of rescale, fit to screen etc is degrading quality.

My comp specs are i5-4690k, GTX 1080, 16mb Ram. I'm using OBS Studio (64bit windows). Computer should be plenty beefy to handle, just not sure how to go about getting a good viewing resolution/quality for this due to using a 21:9 monitor. Any help is greatly appreciated!
 

Kryshade

New Member
So as a quick follow up to this it's definitely the difference in aspect ratio. If I output at 1720x720 it looks much better but I end up with black bars at the top and bottom (standard widescreen fair). Would love a way to get the good non-squished aspect ratio without bars on top and bottom. Anyone know how to do that? Since you're reading this and a helpful person does anyone know how to turn down the people in Teamspeak? I have a 2nd audio output source set up to capture my headphone sound (teamspeak) and no matter how much I turn down the volume slider they remain really loud compared to me and the game sound.

Thanks for the help!
 
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