Question / Help Help a new streamer out! I can't seem to find the right settings.

[Bugris]

Hello everyone,

So yeah.. I decided to start streaming and thought my pc would be enough for it but it seems like I was wrong.... not sure if its the settings or the hardware... but I think with this config I should be able to stream something in some lower quality.

let me start with my pc and connection specs:

I have a Palit GTX 650 Ti 1GB video card
Intel Quad Core 4x2.55Ghz
4GB DDR2 RAM

And this is my current connection:



My current OBS settings are:
Bitrate 1972kb/s
Buffers size 1972kb/s
Sound 48khz 48kb/s bitrate
Video custom base resolution: 1280x720 ( my desktop resolution is 1680x1050 )
Downscale: none
FPS: 25
using cbr and cbr padding

x264 codec settings:
veryfast preset
high profile
using cfr

The problem is that OBS cant really keep up while playing. It's all fine and smooth till I start playing something then trying to stream that, after that the encoder cant keep up.

Any suggestions, please? Is the only solution a hardware upgrade? :/

 

[Krazy]

In the future, people really need to make sure to list the actual CPU model. Just saying "quad core" is not really enough, there are literally dozens of quad core CPUs out there. Anyway.

Is your CPU an Intel Q8300? That's the only Intel quad I can find at 2.55Ghz. If that's the case, you are really going to struggle to be able to stream while gaming. Downscale to 480p or lower, set FPS to maybe 25. You might even have to change the x264 preset in advanced to superfast or ultrafast.

 

[Bugris]

Oh, yeah should have wrote the CPU model... :( sorry about that and yes its the Q8300. Does it matter if I give higher priority to OBS in task manager? Anyways thanks for the fast response, I'll give it a try. :)

Edit:

Tried on a widesreen 480p and its not giving the encode errors now, but now the quality is going bad(pixelated) if there is movement on game