Question / Help Ideal Settings For Fast Paced Shoot Em Ups??

[BlockAboots]

I am wanting to live stream some fast paced shoot em ups and was wondering whats the best settings for this type of game to try and avoid as much compression on the stream as possible. I know a few releases back that OBS warned you to use 'CBR', 'CFR' and 'Main' x264 encoding profile if streaming to twitch but with the latest version of OBS it appears not to warn you of this anymore, so am i right in thinking we can set manual Quality Balance now?

This is my connection speed....

Taking the above into consideration what settings could i use to get the least compression for fast moving games. On a side note does increasing the bitrate give less compression, for instance it CBR was enabled would a 2200 kb/s produce more compression in the video than say 3000 kb/s?

 

[dodgepong]

This is the best place to get baseline settings for various content: http://obsproject.com/estimator

And the requirements of CBR, CFR, and main profile are still in effect. If you already have them set, then you won't see a warning.

 

[BlockAboots]

Ok thanks. My CPU is a, Haswell i7 Overclocked to 4.2Ghz am i good to set the x264 CPU preset to 'Fast' to increase video quality?

 

[dodgepong]

You can always give it a try, though keep in mind that if your stream or game performance is suffering, then that's one of the first things you're going to want to change back.