Question / Help Best settings ?

LemonWAG1

Member
Since today I got a new internet speed.

My upload speed is now 9.5mb.

So I did the estimator, which said to do 3000kb.
But then I still got 6mb left? So is there any higher rate I can do?

Also is it worth to stream 30+fps and in 1080?

I got an i7 and a 2GB Nvidia GeForce
 

Razswe

New Member
In theory, yes. What game are you streaming? Settings can vary quite a bit depending if it a strategy game lie starcraft or FPS like CS.

From what I've talk to others about you rarely need to push more then 4k with a 1080p stream regardless of how big your connection is since you will only decrease the amount of people who can watch it.

Why? If you set the bitrate/buffer to, let's say 4k/4k, your viewers need to have a 10Mbit connection at least to be able to watch it smoothly. The less bit/rate buffer you have, the less strain you put on the viewers connection.
Since a low bitrate will show a lot of pixels on screen because it's compressed you can even this out if you have a monster machine by going down to "fast" on x264 preset but with your machine I would not go there.

The FPS part is a lot more dependant on your CPU so exactly what i7 is it? I have an i7-2600k clocked to 4Ghz and I'm struggling to push 59fps with 1080p.
 

LemonWAG1

Member
I got a normal i7-2600 one.
I don't really want to stream in 1080, 720 is good enough.
And ofcourse i want that most of the people will be able to watch it!

Also i'm streaming CoD so it's pretty fast action
 

Razswe

New Member
If 720p is enough, try 2944 bitrate/buffer, "veryfast" preset, Quality 7-8 and start from 40'ish FPS.

From there I would experiment with raising the quality to 8 (no need to go above that) and going slowly up the FPS count till you reach a point you are ok with.

If things seem odd, try switching between the EU streaming servers but generally you want to avoid using Frankfurt.
 

LemonWAG1

Member
Razswe said:
If 720p is enough, try 2944 bitrate/buffer, "veryfast" preset, Quality 7-8 and start from 40'ish FPS.

From there I would experiment with raising the quality to 8 (no need to go above that) and going slowly up the FPS count till you reach a point you are ok with.

If things seem odd, try switching between the EU streaming servers but generally you want to avoid using Frankfurt.
I now stream with
- 720p
- 3000 bitrate
- faster preset
- Quality 7
- 30 fps

This works fine, but I don't know if everyone can watch this ?
 

Razswe

New Member
3k bitrate should be fairly easy for most connections to handle well, if you get complaints about lag from several people you could try lower it to 2.5k.

I wouldn't really recommend livestreaming with the "faster" preset though but since you are streaming from a console this might work for you. I only have experience with PC streaming.
 

LemonWAG1

Member
Razswe said:
3k bitrate should be fairly easy for most connections to handle well, if you get complaints about lag from several people you could try lower it to 2.5k.

I wouldn't really recommend livestreaming with the "faster" preset though but since you are streaming from a console this might work for you. I only have experience with PC streaming.
I will put it on veryfast :)

Also I am using the Amsterdam server
 
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