Question / Help I have a dedicated 1660 for just encoding. What is the best settings for best quality?

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Shuriken200

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As I said above, I use a 1660 for encoding my streams and recordings. But what is the absolute best settings to use for max quality when recording and streaming?
I play on a 1440p monitor and scale it down to 720p60fps 4500bitrate on twitch.
If you have any other tips about other OBS settings I appreciate that too =D

Thanks!!!
 
Shuriken200 said:
Thanks! Will try that.
And if i may ask another question.

what is the best resolution to scale to when original resolution is 1440p? Is 720P the best? And what scaling filter??

Thanks for any answers!!
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Stream resolution depends on your upload internet speed, if you have 10mbs up you can stream 1080p 60 fps at 6mbs or even 8 is you wanna try.
Scaling filter use bicubic or if you want more sharpness try lanz.
And select NVEC for encoder to use the gpu instead of the cpu.
 
Ðuncan088 said:
Stream resolution depends on your upload internet speed, if you have 10mbs up you can stream 1080p 60 fps at 6mbs or even 8 is you wanna try.
Scaling filter use bicubic or if you want more sharpness try lanz.
And select NVEC for encoder to use the gpu instead of the cpu.
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Thanks! I already use Nvenc new and lanz for scaling. And i have net speed of 1GB down/up so no worry there. I just dont have affiliate or partner status to twitch, so i need to use low bitrate so people with bad net speeds can watch. The second i get transcoding i will go up to 6000-7000 bitrate. :)


R1CH said:
Note that a dedicated encoding GPU will often perform worse than encoding on the same GPU as the game, since textures have to be passed back and forth across the PCI-e bus which is relatively slow.
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Do you mean that it will take more power to encode or that the stream will look worse then if i encoded on my gaming pc GPU? My gaming pc has a 1080ti, so the chip is not as good as my gtx1660 for encoding if i understand it correctly. Since the 1660 has newer chip.



Altso. I use look ahead on and 4 b frames. Since the gpu is dedicated for encoding it is able to do it fine. But some say that that using those makes the stream look worse when playing fast motion games. is this true? is it better to turn look ahead off and b frames 2 instead?

Thanks!!
 
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An update on the scaling here. I tried bicubic since i heard that it is better when scaling from 1440p to 720p. And it looks a little less pixelated. But its like there is a blurry filter over the whole screen. i guess that is the nature of what happens when you scale so heavely and then stream it. Anyone got any tips on how to increase the quality? :P
 
R1CH said:
More bitrate is the fastest way to increase quality.
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Thanks. Since I do not have transcoding as of this date i simply need it to be lower then what i would like. But the second i get transcoding on my stream i will bump it up as far as i can :D

Thanks again! :)
 
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