Question / Help Bad Stream Quality Twitch Help

robax91

New Member
Hello, thanks for taking the time to read. I have tried streaming recently and cannot find settings to work with my setup.

I want to stream League of Legends for now, but really any online game. I've been streaming for a while but with low quality. Recently I've gotten more stable internet and a better GPU, but my stream is still low quality.

PC Specs: Windows 7 64bit
I5-3570k @ 4.2Ghz (30c idle, 55c load while streaming and gaming)
Asus P8Z77-M Motherboard (all updated on firmware)
8GB(2x4 dual channel) 1866 Vengence Cas 9 RAM (in XMP)
Asus GTX650TIB-DC2OC-2GD5 (331.65 drivers) (31c idle, 55c load while streaming and gaming)

Internet: Mediacom 8MB Download, 2MB Upload

CPU usage while gaming and streaming:
Up to 40% with 4GB memory usage

GPU Usage:
Up to 50% with 31% memory load

Using OBS v0.583b with these settings:
Encoding:
CBR and CBR padding (twitch recommends using CBR)
1100 Bitrate (same buffer)
48k AAC audio 64bit rate
Video:
Video adapter 650ti-B
Resolution 1600x900 no downscale
FPS: 30 (would like this to be higher for smoother stream but IDK)
Advanced:
Use multi-thread
Process priority: high
Screen buffering 400ms (default?)
x264 CPU: faster
x264 profile: high
Keyframe = 0 (auto, default?)
CFR

If I am missing anything let me know and thanks again for looking at this. I know I might need the bit rate lower so that my game doesn't have 400 ping and lag so can I get a few suggestions on a high setting (for when I'm gaming offline) and an online setting (for when I can only use about 800bitrate). Thanks, Robert
 

FerretBomb

Active Member
You will need to downscale, full-stop.
1100kbps isn't even enough for a good-quality 720p@30fps stream, much less a 900@30.

If you only have about 800kbps, consider going down to 450p (a 2 downscale, which will also give you better image fidelity on text than a 1.5). You may also need to drop your framerate a bit as well, to fit in that constraint. 1100 should be able to do 450p@30 comfortably, with decent-enough quality.
 
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