Question / Help I have lag if i stream

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Masodion

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I don't know why but i have a lot of lag.
My pc specs:
Intel dual core 4800E 3.00 Ghz
2GB ram DDR3
Nvidia GT 240
And i can upload with 3500 kb/s

If someone can give me some settigs for obs, i will apreciate that.
 
Ram doesn't affect the encoding that much, biggest effect on ram is the rc-lookahead...

Your CPU is not the greatest though, this might cause the lag.

But first of all: What do you mean with "lag"?
 
Your PC is terrible. You're never going to be able to stream on that PC. I'm surprised you can even game on that PC. You need a new PC. A PC that isn't 8-9 years old.
Or five years old.

Let's go with "1 year old" at most.
 
I was wrong, my processor is intel dual core E8400 and i play League of Legends on 1920x1080 all hbight with 90 fps.
Thelazybum my stream is blocking every 10 secound.
 
My laptop is able to stream and it is almost 4 years old...

Why shouldn't he be able to game on that PC?
You don't know, what game he is playing and on what settings he is playing...

Comments like this are actually no help, most of the people are not able to just get a new PC or better internet (often you read as advice for a guy with low upload speed "get better internet").
 
Try to use 540p at 25 fps (so we don't take too much of your CPU's power) with a bitrate of 2000 Kbit/s (that's a bit overkill but what ever)
Use the veryfast preset.
Do a short test-stream and keep track of your CPU usage and temperature.

In your case, the CPU limits you the most.

Also post a link to your stream/a vod of your stream. :)
 
TheLazyBum said:
My laptop is able to stream and it is almost 4 years old...

Why shouldn't he be able to game on that PC?

Comments like this are actually no help, most of the people are not able to just get a new PC.
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Your laptop is probably stronger than a core 2 duo if it's 4 years old.

I did not say he can't game. I said I am surprised he is able to.

I'm not going to beat around the bush with this. His PC is extremely old. At the LATEST those parts were made in very early 2009. It's not a PC that CAN stream, and should not be stressed with streaming at this point in its life cycle. He might not have enough money. I get that. He might not WANT or CARE to upgrade. I get that. But long story short, he NEEDS an upgrade if he's going to have any sort of good time streaming.

And it's not just his CPU. His RAM is too limiting too. He'd need a program up that could display his chat, and that takes up extra memory; memory he is likely to not have dispensable. Even if he played LoL in a window negating the need for a second monitor, he is still going to run into a huge bottleneck while gaming and streaming, even if he was capable of getting good quality using something like superfast for a preset.

He has no hardware encoders available.

His RAM is quite slow, as DDR2 was the only thing sold with Core 2 series boards.

So no, my comment wasn't "no help". It is a harsh dose of reality. He cannot expect to stream with that in any kind of decent fashion and expect anything to go well. It will not work, and if it does work, he's going to have series issues, and his gaming experience will be greatly diminished. It is what it is.

I'm not going to sugar coat things for people. If I see a way to help, I will speak it. If someone like a certain previous member throws my help in my face, I will respond in kind. This user needs an upgrade more than any settings will give. His entire PC needs one.
 
TheLazyBum said:
Try to use 540p at 25 fps (so we don't take too much of your CPU's power) with a bitrate of 2000 Kbit/s (that's a bit overkill but what ever)
Use the veryfast preset.
Do a short test-stream and keep track of your CPU usage and temperature.

In your case, the CPU limits you the most.

Also post a link to your stream/a vod of your stream. :)
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his CPU is 8 years old so 540@25 might work or better yet downscale to 480@25fps and give is some more bitrate, use 2500 just to compensate for the lower resolution.
 
@D2ultima: you are right, he won't have a great experience, when he wants to stream while gaming...
And yeah, my laptop is more powerful, but it is able to encode way higher than 540p25 on veryfast.


@Masodion: like dping said, you can downscale even further, but I wouldn't recommend going below 432p, because that doesn't look too great anymore.
But I don't know if 2500 Kbit/s is really necessary, but you can just try, it can only get better and you have enough bandwidth to use that.
 
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