Question / Help Help with 1500 bitrate

[Soup006]

I having been streaming to twitch for about a month. I stream DayZ. A have a few regulars that chat often and keep things fun. Some of them have buffering issues when I had the bitrate set to 2500. I lowered to 2000 but it still occurred. No buffering when set to 1500. It's not my upload rate because I'm not dropping any frames and others said the stream looked great at 2500. These regulars are important to me and I feel that building up my followers is more important than having a great quality stream as of right now. I know it will look more pixellated at 1500. I am downscaling to 720p @ 30fps. Would dropping to 480p achieve less pixelation or would it look even worse quality? DayZ uses a lot of CPU so I don't know if I have enough room left to bump up the preset. I have an Ivy Bridge i7. Are those pretty much my only two options if I don't want to raise the bitrate any higher?
Thanks

 

[alpinlol]

well buffering as long as you dont have any dropped frames is a twitch problem and every non partnered streamer has those problems, apparently

problem with dayz is the fact that theres a shit ton of little details like grass and whatnot everywhere you would have to test different downscales and see how the result looks but an i7 3770(k) should be able to handle 720p30@fast preset while playing dayz tbh

another thing you could do is use a lower framerate like 25 thats a little gain but its not that amazing

 

[Lain]

Each viewer has his or her own internet connection, and they may not always have the best internet connection or live in the ideal location for the server you're streaming to. If you are not a partnered streamer with twitch and you care about those viewers then you may need to stream at a bitrate and/or on a server that they can all use without issues. See https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...oads-constantly-for-my-viewers-but-why.18465/ for more information.