Question / Help I could use some help...

[Howthefudge]

Hey guys, I hope your doing good.

So, I'm trying to stream on Twitch and I can't find the sweetspot for my settings.

I play games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, H1Z1: KotK and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, so games with high motion.

I use a i7-4790, and 16gb of ram, DL-speed 100mb/s and UL - 7mb/s
I would like to use NVENC or QuickSync to free up some CPU-power but I've heard that the games may look a bit washed out?

My settings are at the moment, NVENC, 1920x1080 base canvas, 1280x720 scaled, downscale filter lancoz, 3500kb/s, 45-60fps (get's very blurry when moving) How can I reduce this?

What settings would you suggest/are you using?

Thanks alot for answers, and sorry for being a complete noob but hey, we all gotta start somewhere. :)

 

[EBrito]

Raise bitrate to 6000 Kbps and uncheck Enforce streaming encoder settings
Also uncheck rescale output in output settings (if you have it checked)

 

[Howthefudge]

Raise bitrate to 6000 Kbps and uncheck Enforce streaming encoder settings
Also uncheck rescale output in output settings (if you have it checked)

Hey man, thanks for your answer. What will these settings do?

 

[EBrito]

More bitrate --> better image quality
Enforce streaming encoder settings --> forme stream to obey Twitch limits. Present verison is configured with 3500 kbps
Output settings rescaling unneeded if you rescale yet in video settings . This double rescaling can lead to lag.

 

[Howthefudge]

More bitrate --> better image quality
Enforce streaming encoder settings --> forme stream to obey Twitch limits. Present verison is configured with 3500 kbps
Output settings rescaling unneeded if you rescale yet in video settings . This double rescaling can lead to lag.

Thanks alot man, I really appreciate it! :D Have a good one.

 

[Fenrir]

Present verison is configured with 3500 kbps

This is false. The limit was increased in OBS when it was confirmed with Twitch. You do not need to uncheck enforce streaming service bitrate limits

 

[EBrito]

@Fenrir My version is 18.0.1
C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\rtmp-services\services.json content:

.....
{
"name": "US West: Seattle, WA",
"url": "rtmp://live-sea.twitch.tv/app"
}
],
"recommended": {
"keyint": 2,
"max video bitrate": 3500,
"max audio bitrate": 160,
"x264opts": "scenecut=0"
}
},

.....

I think this GitHub is not yet implemented (or maybe something failed with the upgrade from 18.0.0)

 

[Fenrir]

Have you actually tested it?

EDIT: To clarify, the actual file being read is C:\Users\<useraccount>\AppData\Roaming\obs-studio\plugin_config\rtmp-services\services.json if it's present. This is checked against the OBS web server every time OBS is launched.

 

[EBrito]

OK, thank you for clarifying.
The "users\..... ! file is correct.
But I don't get that warning´message