Question / Help Asking for help getting the right OBS settings

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TobiasB

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Hey OBS

I really wanna start streaming on Twitch but my problem is that i cant get the right settings.
I see other non-partner streamers on twitch with similar or older gear than i do which run perfect streams...

These are my pc specs.
I7 4770k
GTX 970
16 GB RAM
Cosair CX 500M, 500W PSU
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Windows 8.1 x64

My internet speed is normally around 30/15. It really changes. Sometimes ive been at 40/20
Here is a little showoff from speedtest.net
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4492318741

I really hope someone out there can help me getting the perfect non-partner stream up running.
What im looking for is a decent quality with no blurry in any kind. What matters for me is not the quality, but the lag/blurry.
It is so much more important that my viewers can actually enjoy what im doing. Thats just me :D

If you can find the right settings for me and my computer, please help me and write some suggestions on OBS settings in the comments. I do really appreciate any kind of help i can get for making this work for me! :-)
Thank you so much and thanks for reading this.

Tobias
 
Without parnership, you're going to need to limit your video bitrate to about 2000kbit.
720p30 is about all you're going to be able to squeeze into that.
 
Harold said:
Without parnership, you're going to need to limit your video bitrate to about 2000kbit.
720p30 is about all you're going to be able to squeeze into that.
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I see people with my kind of setup using 60 fps and higher bitrate.
Even tho, people with my kind of setup dont lag or anything when streaming. It looks like a partner sometimes

After changing into the settings you suggested it got even worse than before.... ?

Is there anything wrong with my pc?
 
720p 30fps 2200kbps video bitrate and 128kbps audio bitrate. CPU preset depends on the game - how hard your game hit the CPU and how much can you sacrifice for the encoding. The 4770K is powerful, just a bit slower than a popular 4790K here.
You can go up to 1080p 60fps with this CPU, but some people may expirience lags and buffering issues, it also hits very hard on the viewer hardware (my Ivy bridge i5 CPU 3,2GHz in the laptop goes up to 50-60% while watching a 1080p 60FPS twitch stream, and this is by far not the slowest mobile CPU).
 
People won't stick around for higher bitrate or higher framerate if the stream buffers for them. That's why the 2000kbit video 30fps recommendation is made.
 
Cryonic said:
720p 30fps 2200kbps video bitrate and 128kbps audio bitrate. CPU preset depends on the game - how hard your game hit the CPU and how much can you sacrifice for the encoding. The 4770K is powerful, just a bit slower than a popular 4790K here.
You can go up to 1080p 60fps with this CPU, but some people may expirience lags and buffering issues, it also hits very hard on the viewer hardware (my Ivy bridge i5 CPU 3,2GHz in the laptop goes up to 50-60% while watching a 1080p 60FPS twitch stream, and this is by far not the slowest mobile CPU).
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Damn....
With 720p 30fps 2200kbps its just very laggy as you see here: http://prntscr.com/7qoh4u
Would you suggest using Shadowplay?
 
720 30fps and 2000+ kbps bitrate is not laggy at all. Simply cant be with this CPU if you dont crank up the preset to choke your CPU until everything will lag.
 
He's alienating a lot of viewers by running at 1080p60 and over 4000kbit bitrate.

It's actually unwatchable for me.
 
Actually there are people who enjoy game streaming at a decent quality. Personally i can watch anything that is avaliable on twitch, inc 1080p 60FPS and with bitrates way over 3000. And a lot of my friends can do this too, but some expirience strange stuff while watching non partnered streams.

Go with what you like, streaming 1080p 60FPS with a high bitrate will give you great quality - i support these channels if i see some. Tired of watching blurry, low res and low bitrate streams all over the place. Its 2015, Youtube goes for 4K, 60FPS whatever an we sit here talk about resolutions and bitrates that were used 10 years ago...
 
Well of course you won't get buffering on those streams if they are partnered. We are talking about non-partnered streams here, where viewers get the stream from San Francisco.
Also 1080p @ 60fps is pretty hard on twitch's player, quite a lot of cpu usage.
 
I´m talking about non-partnered streams too, that also applies to my own stream. No problems at all, and i know the routing over San Francisco is not ideal but it works good. 100mbit/s here in Germany, can watch anything and also stream with higher bandwith than the usual 3500.
 
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