A puzzle for the community that probably will take a few minutes to solve

[captainploo]

Hello, I am Ploo.
I have a unique puzzle for the community, and I am saying that cause I have spent the last 6 months trying to find someone with the same problem and I have not found one person.

My problem is this... I have an Samsung Odyssey Ark (2nd gen) and I want to be able to find the correct balance to stream the games that I want.
These are the specs that I am dealing with at the moment:

These are the stats from a 3min stream that I did with the recommended settings: My Recent Log

And here is a visual of the settings that I also got, in case you need to see them too!

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Before I had the Neo G9 (1st gen) and it was not the best. Because it was 32x9 resolution, the OBS software didn't agree with it at all. But now I have the Ark which is essentially a TV that is 16x9.
Now with my giant 16x9 monitor; OBS does agree with it and I am not getting lost rendering frames.

To recap:
The outcome that I want, is video that I am streaming to not have the horrible bitrate problem that I am having.

Do I need to increase the bitrate more? I have up to 350mb upload, I thought that would be enough to stream.

Do I need to move to "advanced settings" and tweak some things there? I can do that if need be!

Can I compromise with lowering my game settings so my GPU isn't overloading like last time? I can compromise if that is what is needed.

At the end of the day... do I need a second GPU? I might have to postpone till December if that is the case.

So many questions and I hope this is the right place to ask.

If you made it this far, thank you for listening to my rant and witnessing my inexperience with this app.
Thanks again,
- Ploo

 

[R1CH]

No matter how much bitrate you send to YouTube, they will re-encode it, so you will never get good quality for high motion games. Try a local recording using the same settings as your stream - if that looks OK then there's nothing you can do as the problem is on YouTube's side.

 

[rockbottom]

Your settings stink. You're capturing @ 60FPS with OBS but your monitors are running @ 144, 144 & 165. Ya that sucks for quality. Run your main monitor @ 120HZ & the other monitors @ 60HZ when using OBS. While your at it can G-Sync, run Fixed Refresh Rates/Monitor Tech.

 

[rockbottom]

I don't use YT but from what I've read, it's better to send 2k & up. Better encoding on YT side. You may want to look into it some more.

Since you're streaming @ that nice high bit-rate, zero out the B-Frames. B-Frames are the lowest quality frame type & they will be replaced with higher quality P Frames. Also, disable Lookahead & Visual Tuning.

16:49:55.260: [obs-nvenc: 'simple_video_stream'] settings:
16:49:55.260: codec: H264
16:49:55.260: rate_control: CBR
16:49:55.260: bitrate: 51000
16:49:55.260: keyint: 120
16:49:55.260: preset: p5
16:49:55.260: tuning: hq
16:49:55.260: multipass: qres
16:49:55.260: profile: high
16:49:55.260: width: 1920
16:49:55.260: height: 1080
16:49:55.260: b-frames: 2
16:49:55.260: b-ref-mode: 0
16:49:55.260: lookahead: true (8 frames)
16:49:55.260: aq: true

 

[captainploo]

I don't use YT but from what I've read, it's better to send 2k & up. Better encoding on YT side. You may want to look into it some more.

Since you're streaming @ that nice high bit-rate, zero out the B-Frames. B-Frames are the lowest quality frame type & they will be replaced with higher quality P Frames. Also, disable Lookahead & Visual Tuning.

16:49:55.260: [obs-nvenc: 'simple_video_stream'] settings:
16:49:55.260: codec: H264
16:49:55.260: rate_control: CBR
16:49:55.260: bitrate: 51000
16:49:55.260: keyint: 120
16:49:55.260: preset: p5
16:49:55.260: tuning: hq
16:49:55.260: multipass: qres
16:49:55.260: profile: high
16:49:55.260: width: 1920
16:49:55.260: height: 1080
16:49:55.260: b-frames: 2
16:49:55.260: b-ref-mode: 0
16:49:55.260: lookahead: true (8 frames)
16:49:55.260: aq: true

I will try this out right now!

 

[captainploo]

I don't use YT but from what I've read, it's better to send 2k & up. Better encoding on YT side. You may want to look into it some more.

Since you're streaming @ that nice high bit-rate, zero out the B-Frames. B-Frames are the lowest quality frame type & they will be replaced with higher quality P Frames. Also, disable Lookahead & Visual Tuning.

16:49:55.260: [obs-nvenc: 'simple_video_stream'] settings:
16:49:55.260: codec: H264
16:49:55.260: rate_control: CBR
16:49:55.260: bitrate: 51000
16:49:55.260: keyint: 120
16:49:55.260: preset: p5
16:49:55.260: tuning: hq
16:49:55.260: multipass: qres
16:49:55.260: profile: high
16:49:55.260: width: 1920
16:49:55.260: height: 1080
16:49:55.260: b-frames: 2
16:49:55.260: b-ref-mode: 0
16:49:55.260: lookahead: true (8 frames)
16:49:55.260: aq: true

Just tried it out, and yes, youtube does compression and I cant get around that.

But just those few options made it WAYYYY BETTER

Its still a little blurry but I can move quickly and still make out the chat and small things on the mini map.

Thanks both of you!

 

[rockbottom]

Cool! Yeah, now that the timing has been improved/corrected, it should be much clearer. Those encoding settings are good for 2 & 4K. If you record, use CQP Rate Control. In that mode the CQ Level is the Quality setting.