Question / Help Best settings for ETS 2

[kuba8998]

Hi, I'm looking for the best possible settings for OBS streaming Euro Truck Simulator 2. My setup :

i5 4690k stock
8 gb ram 2400mhz
asus gtx 780
upload speed : 10 mb/s
Windows 10 64bit

Thanks for your help!

 

[FerretBomb]

If you're streaming to Twitch and are a non-partnered caster, the 'best settings' will almost always be the same:

720p@30fps, 2000kbps.

 

[kuba8998]

So, I cannot use 3500 bitrate and 60 fps even if my pc can handle it?

 

[FerretBomb]

Not if you want people to be able to watch you without going into buffering hell. That's the reason to limit it to 2000kbps; Twitch released usage metrics, and that's the point where the widest audience will be able to watch smoothly. Even bumping to 2500 will cause a significant portion of viewers to start having issues. 60fps is mostly numbers-wanking anyway, when it comes to streaming (as opposed to playing) without a technical need (like if a game uses sprite blitting for transparency, causing items to disappear or stay solid when streamed at 30fps).

A better idea is to step to a slower x264 preset. Start at Veryfast, and monitor your CPU load and temperatures while streaming and playing your game of choice. After about 20 minutes, move one step slower on the preset list, and test again.

Slower preset = better compression = your stream will look better at a given bitrate. But more CPU is used.

Your bottleneck is your viewers' connection to the Twitch server. Not your hardware, or anything you can control.

 

[kuba8998]

Not if you want people to be able to watch you without going into buffering hell. That's the reason to limit it to 2000kbps; Twitch released usage metrics, and that's the point where the widest audience will be able to watch smoothly. Even bumping to 2500 will cause a significant portion of viewers to start having issues. 60fps is mostly numbers-wanking anyway, when it comes to streaming (as opposed to playing) without a technical need (like if a game uses sprite blitting for transparency, causing items to disappear or stay solid when streamed at 30fps).

A better idea is to step to a slower x264 preset. Start at Veryfast, and monitor your CPU load and temperatures while streaming and playing your game of choice. After about 20 minutes, move one step slower on the preset list, and test again.

Slower preset = better compression = your stream will look better at a given bitrate. But more CPU is used.

Your bottleneck is your viewers' connection to the Twitch server. Not your hardware, or anything you can control.

I'll try 720p 30 or 45 fps and 2000 bitrate. Thank you for your help :)

 

[FerretBomb]

Advise against 45fps; still too high to maintain quality at 2000kbps at 720p, plus it's not an even divisor from the standard 60fps baseline. Want to go with 60, 30, 20, 15, 12, 10. 45 will lead to an unstable framerate, which will look subconsciously jittery.

Don't get lost chasing numbers.