Question / Help Hello new here, looking to improve my pixelation(have video)

[scotty99]

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http://www.twitch.tv/araxxis/b/494007797

I love how smooth my stream is but i feel its not as clear as it should be regarding text and the bit of pixelation during movement, please ignore the audio issue in video i didnt mute my dashboard lol.

PC:
2500k OC'd to 4.4
8gb 1600 memory
Nvidia gtx 465

Here are my settings:

Using CBR
Bitrate: 3500 (my upload is 5mb's, i have no dropped frames)
Quality balance: 10
1920x1080 Downscaled to 720p, 60FPS (60 fps is what gives smoothness)
Filter: Lanczos (ive tried all 3, seem to looks same to me)
Processor priority: High (didnt notice a difference here either between high and normal, in game or stream quality)
Scene buffering time: 700ms (didnt touch this cause i have no idea what it does lol)
CPU preset: Veryfast (i got insane stuttering when i adjusted this, which is surprising considering my CPU is good)
X264 encoding profile: Main
Keyframe interval: 2 (this and encoding profile OBS made me set to these values)

Thats basically all i think, let me know if you need more. Like i think my stream looks ok, and i love the smoothness but i really think it could be crisper. I tried not downscaling but i think 720p 60 fps looks better than 1080p 30 fps, plus for some reason i was getting even more pixelation on 1080p 30 fps and of course didnt have the smoothness.

Any help is truly appreciated : )

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Hello new here, looking to improve my pixelation(have vi

Honestly, not only does that stream look pretty darn good already, but there's not much more you can do to improve quality. You already said that dropping your x264 preset to faster or anything below that gave you performance problems, so other than that, there's really not much more to be done. WoW and other 3rd person games similar to it are very hard for x264 to encode due to its high-motion nature, so there's not much more to do.

You could try dropping to 30fps to see if that improves the quality of each frame (since the 3500kbps will be spread out over 30 frames instead of 60) but if you don't want to change streaming frame rate, then you're pretty much pushing the limit of your current hardware.

 

[scotty99]

Re: Hello new here, looking to improve my pixelation(have vi

Honestly, not only does that stream look pretty darn good already, but there's not much more you can do to improve quality. You already said that dropping your x264 preset to faster or anything below that gave you performance problems, so other than that, there's really not much more to be done. WoW and other 3rd person games similar to it are very hard for x264 to encode due to its high-motion nature, so there's not much more to do.

You could try dropping to 30fps to see if that improves the quality of each frame (since the 3500kbps will be spread out over 30 frames instead of 60) but if you don't want to change streaming frame rate, then you're pretty much pushing the limit of your current hardware.

Thanks for reply, yes i believe i tried "fast" and skipped "faster". I will try faster for my last option, if that doesent help im fine with how it looks. Gonna keep 60 fps for sure cause i think thats what makes it smooth, if anything i guess ill just make my UI larger so its easier to read lol.

Thanks again.