Question / Help bad streaming and recording quality

[Tyler C Palm]

So to start off my specs are as follows and all drivers are up to date
i7-4930k factory clock
GTX980 ti factory clock
32GB ddr3 ram
internet speed 100 down 100 up

current settings i use for my stream are as follows
OBS classic 0.657b

Nvidia NVENC
use CBR: enabled
Enable CBR padding: enabled
max bitrate 3500

video adapter gtx 980 ti
custom resolution 1920x1080 no downscale fps 60

use multithreaded optimizations: enabled
process priority class: normal

NVENC Preset: auto (i've triedd a few other settiongs nothing seems to change)
encoding profile: main
keyfram interbal: 2
Use CFR:enabled


video whether its stream or recording seems very blurry when theres any kind of camera movement and stream appears laggy to me even on replays my twitch is twitch.tv/zonedgaming if you'd like to go look at previous broadcasts.

 

[Harold]

Your streaming quality is bad because you're using NVEnc.
Your recording quality is bad because you're not using enough bitrate and more likely generally the wrong settings for recording.

 

[Tyler C Palm]

pardon my ignorance but whats the difference between x264 and nvenc

 

[c3r1c3]

x264 runs on your CPU. NVENc uses the built-in encoder in your GPU.

x264 at streaming bitrates (i.e. 6000k and under) is very much SUPERIOR to NVENC, and the lower you go in bitrate, the clearer the difference.

 

[Tyler C Palm]

so what do you think an optimal setting for streaming would be? (I saw the post for high quality recording already)

 

[c3r1c3]

I use OBS Studio so I can have good streaming settings with excellent recording settings:
http://imgur.com/tMKpr0a


As for OBS Classic, I would go with x264, at 1280x720@30p or 960x540@60p with a bitrate of 2000-2500, and crank the x264 preset as low as you can safely go.