Horrible quality when streaming Minecraft

[Scarecrowshere]

Through my entire history of streaming, I have never been able to get Minecraft to look good. It's always incredibly grainy. I've tried everything I've found on the internet - changing bitrates, changing encoders, and I've even switched from Twitch to YouTube. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Log - https://obsproject.com/logs/jGNSTFgR_p3z4dwJ

 

[FerretBomb]

According to that log, you have several problems.

1) You're streaming over Wifi. NEVER stream over Wifi. It's designed for lightweight content consumption on mobile devices. Any streaming rig should have a network cable run to it.

2) You're trying to stream 1080p60 at 2500kbps on x264 Veryfast. 1080p60 wants 12mbps (12000kbps) on average to look decent. You either need to raise your bitrate by a LOT, or downscale and run at a lower framerate to fit within that bandwidth budget. This is your big issue about it looking awful, compounded by streaming to YouTube who re-encode everything they receive. For 2500kbps, you'll want to run at most 720p30.

3) x264 Veryfast is workable, but you have a GTX 1060. It supports NVENC, and the 10-series generally encodes at a quality level around x264 Fast (which is better). It's also a separate core on the GPU and will use no game-rendering resources (as long as you don't use the Max Quality preset, and have Lookahead and Psychovisual Tuning turned off). Swapping to NVENC is strongly advised.

 

[Scarecrowshere]

According to that log, you have several problems.

1) You're streaming over Wifi. NEVER stream over Wifi. It's designed for lightweight content consumption on mobile devices. Any streaming rig should have a network cable run to it.

2) You're trying to stream 1080p60 at 2500kbps on x264 Veryfast. 1080p60 wants 12mbps (12000kbps) on average to look decent. You either need to raise your bitrate by a LOT, or downscale and run at a lower framerate to fit within that bandwidth budget. This is your big issue about it looking awful, compounded by streaming to YouTube who re-encode everything they receive. For 2500kbps, you'll want to run at most 720p30.

3) x264 Veryfast is workable, but you have a GTX 1060. It supports NVENC, and the 10-series generally encodes at a quality level around x264 Fast (which is better). It's also a separate core on the GPU and will use no game-rendering resources (as long as you don't use the Max Quality preset, and have Lookahead and Psychovisual Tuning turned off). Swapping to NVENC is strongly advised.

I've done all of this besides #1 and it still looks awful. My wifi is really good - I get almost exactly the same speed as my brother who has ethernet. I'm not sure what difference it would make, but atm I dont think it's very necessary or even possible considering the router is in another room. Without #1 is there anything else I can do?

 

[FerretBomb]

You'd have to post a new log from a session where you're streaming at a proper bitrate, so we can look at what OBS is doing on the back end.

 

[Geovarney]

This you tube video describes how you can move your phone and or your router to another room so that Ethernet connection is achievable. I recently did this, and including upgrading the cable from the wall to the router squeezed a little more speed from my internet as well from 57M to 62M . The difference for streaming was immense. Cost about £35 for all the parts

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