Question / Help Help with optimizing settings?

[Bleck Clermont]

Well, first off, I should go ahead and copy my laptop specs and OBS settings (and i guess some logs too)

Specs

• Operating system - Windows 10 Home 64

• Memory, standard - 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB)

• Hard drive description - 500 GB 5400 rpm SATA

• Processor family - AMD Quad-Core A-Series processor

• Processor - AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU with Radeon HD 8400 Graphics (2 GHz, 2 MB cache)

• Display - 15.6" diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit (1366 x 768)

• Graphics - AMD Radeon R4 Graphics (up to 2 GB)

• Network interface - Integrated 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN

• Wireless - 802.11b/g/n (1x1)

I think the Audio is fine, so I'll give the encoding, video, and advanced settings:

• Encoder - x264
• Checked: Use CBR, Enable CBR Padding
• Max Bitrate - 1500 (If I set this any higher, I usually get High Encoding issues and choppy streams)

• Video adapter - AMD Radeon HD 8400 / R3 Series (I'm aware this graphics card does have issues for gaming purposes)
• Base Resolution - 1200 by 720 with aspect ratio of 5:3 (I recently changed this to be the same as my monitor, being 1366x768 with an aspect ratio of 683:384, have not tested this out, but I had black bars on the left and right sides of my stream before changing this)
• Resolution Downscale - x1.25 (960x576)
• Filter - Bilinear (fastest)
• FPS - 30

• x264 CPU preset - veryfast
• Encoding profile - main
• Keyframe Interval - 2 secs
• Checked: Use CFR

I could post some logs if need be, only if you guys need it to help me out

 

[GamingPugz]

Does these setting work for you?
Cause i use a laptop too and i have a few different obs settings and the ones you posted worked for me

 

[Bleck Clermont]

They do work for me, but occasionally some games will be a tad bit choppy, and almost always has the high encoding message, and some games, like FreezeME, and the Sega Classics Hub (both on Steam) don't work very well

 

[GamingPugz]

Well use Obs estimator and you can enter you stats and it would recommend stuff for the encoding stuff, but it has newer CPU's and GPU's