Question / Help Is my computer capable of streaming League of Legends or MC?

J

Jenn

New Member
Hey everyone, thanks for your time. Sorry if this is a silly question but I don't know much about computers so I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I want to stream either League of Legends and/or Minecraft but my brother told me my computer probably couldn't handle it since it's a laptop but I figured I could get a second opinion. It's a fairly new computer (about a yr and a half) I'm not sure about what specs you'd need to know in order to answer my question so here is what I could find.

HP 2000-2b29WM Notebook PC
Windows 8.1

Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU b960 @
2.20GHz 2.20GHz
4.00 GB
64-bit Operating System, x64based processor
No Pen or Touch Input is available for this display

This is the link to my exact product information: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=5309518&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en

Like I said, I don't know much about computers so I don't even know if the information I gave you is enough or not, please no mean comments, I already feel silly enough for not knowing enough. Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for your help :)
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Yea your internet is fine, but your Hardware will limit you.
In the encoding settings of OBS:
Activate "Use CBR"
Set your Max Bitrate to 1500 for a start, the rest should be ok on default
In the video settings of OBS:
Use the dropdown "Resolution Downscale" and select 2.00 or 2.25, FPS on 25.

With those settings you could do a first stream test (after you setup the rest of OBS and added stuff to your scenes), now if you notice the stream is not running good, lagging for example, or your fps are very bad. You could stop streaming, get into the Advanced settings of OBS and lower the x264 CPU preset to superfast or even ultrafast.
You will probably have to test a bit to find good settings, and if you ever plan on upgrading your hardware, do it ;)
 
J

Jenn

New Member
Jack0r said:
Yea your internet is fine, but your Hardware will limit you.
In the encoding settings of OBS:
Activate "Use CBR"
Set your Max Bitrate to 1500 for a start, the rest should be ok on default
In the video settings of OBS:
Use the dropdown "Resolution Downscale" and select 2.00 or 2.25, FPS on 25.

With those settings you could do a first stream test (after you setup the rest of OBS and added stuff to your scenes), now if you notice the stream is not running good, lagging for example, or your fps are very bad. You could stop streaming, get into the Advanced settings of OBS and lower the x264 CPU preset to superfast or even ultrafast.
You will probably have to test a bit to find good settings, and if you ever plan on upgrading your hardware, do it ;)
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Thank you so much! I'm actually just going to wait until I can get a better computer, which will be in a few weeks, any recommendations on what I should get?
 
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