Question / Help Laptop for streaming dota2 with OBS

vognaR

Member
Hi,

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. So Im thinking about buying laptop to stream dota2 with OBS but I dont know much about hardware performance of these regarding strreaming. I know about desktop configurations but laptop CPUs and GPUs is kind of... a riddle for me.

Can someone tell me if ~750euro laptop (maybe something like this: http://www.skapiec.pl/site/cat/17/comp/ ... techniczne i know its polish but you can see hardware info pretty clearly) would be enough to stream dota2 in 720p at 60fps?

I was thinking for a while about it and there are some pros and cons. First that came to my mind was resolution issue- laptops use small resolution so imo thats a big advantage because its A LOT easier to play and stream 1600x900 than 1920x1080. On the other hand i couldnt find good CPU and GPU comparisons. I just know that laptop's CPUs are a bit worse and GPUs are much worse... Some of you may say that GPU is not that important in streaming - well, they are if you want to stream at 60fps. Why? because right now I have awesome i7 2600k and not-so-awesome geforce gtx550ti on my desktop pc and it makes me able only to stream 720p at 45fps (downscaling from 1920x1080) because of my GPU.

So... anyone can tell me more about laptop streaming and required hardware on those? :)
 

Krazy

Town drunk
GPU is actually pretty important for streaming with OBS. The program uses the GPU quite heavily. Other streaming programs, not so much.

Anyway, considering DotA2 is Source engine (one of the most ridiculously fast running engines around lol) you would likely be ok doing 720p on that laptop. The GPU would be the only real weak link here, but it should be more enough. You may have to lower some graphics settings in game or something, though.
 

vognaR

Member
johnnytstream said:
Not really related, but the 768 display is going to look terrible.
are you talking about stream or just lapton screen? i love small resolutions :D wanted to buy 22" NOT full hd but couldnt find any :(
 

vognaR

Member
in case anyone else will be interested in this topic - im able to stream dota2 almost full details in 720p @45fps with lenovo y580 - i7 3630qm,8gb ram and geforce gtx 660m
 
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