Question / Help Livestreaming with OBS - PC Help

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PsYchDesmon

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Hey Guys, Waddup!

To some of you, im sure this is a stupid question and some of you guys will probably laugh at me, But i want to get into streaming Call of Duty on Twitch instead of just making videos. So i've connected my PS4 up to my Roxio Game Capture then to my PC like i would to record videos. My laptop specs are as follows... (be warned, they're pretty shit)
- 4GB RAM
- Core intel i3
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
I know, they're pretty bad, but it gets the jobs done for minecraft, CS:GO etc..

But anyway, ill be using OBS to setup the livestream and connect it up to twitch, and ive done all that and thats all g. But what i wanna know is, with 4GB RAM an i3 will it be strong enough/ able to livestream to twitch at at least 720p. With no other programs running except OBS and maybe spotify. If you guys could get back to me, that'd be muchly appreciated, and possibly some other tips or tricks that you guys know to get the best outta your PC, that'd be great!

Thanks for reading lads [img src="http://i.gyazo.com/9f52cfcd4470a965de522bbd4c363c68.png" class="mceSmilie" alt="<3>
Cheers,
Des
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Nope thats not enough. You could try Quicksync with 480p, this will look meh, but thats the highest what you can get. x264 hits pretty hard on the CPU and you have an entry level mobile i3 CPU.
And forget Call of Duty with that rig, you will never get stable FPS even without streaming/recording it. You may get stable 30FPS on lowest settings.

If you want to stream, grab a PC, the "budget" version would be an FX-8350, AM3+ board, 8GB RAM and a halfway decent midrange GPU, starting from 270X.
Thats the lowest hardware that i would recommend to use while streaming first person shooter. With Minecraft, MOBAs and other games like Hearthstone you could go lower.
 
Cryonic said:
Nope thats not enough. You could try Quicksync with 480p, this will look meh, but thats the highest what you can get. x264 hits pretty hard on the CPU and you have an entry level mobile i3 CPU.
And forget Call of Duty with that rig, you will never get stable FPS even without streaming/recording it. You may get stable 30FPS on lowest settings.

If you want to stream, grab a PC, the "budget" version would be an FX-8350, AM3+ board, 8GB RAM and a halfway decent midrange GPU, starting from 270X.
Thats the lowest hardware that i would recommend to use while streaming first person shooter. With Minecraft, MOBAs and other games like Hearthstone you could go lower.
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Yeah but Cryonic, im streaming games from Console. So im not playing games on my PC whilst playing streaming. I've connected my PS4 through my Roxio and am streaming PS4 games. So the only program that would be running is OBS and possibly spotify, no other high end CPU programs
 
Ok, thats a bit different.
I have an Ivy Bridge i5 here in my laptop, with Intel HD4000 iGPU (no dedicated GPU, just the onboard). Its also going pretty high with 3,2GHz and it has Hyperthreading, yours is slower.
And i cant get decent quality out of this thing 720p 30FPS with a faster preset than default is the highest possible quality i can squeeze out of the CPU without hitting 95%+ constant load.
Same goes for Quicksync - do whatever you want, but this will look horrible even at "max." bitrate that twitch is able to take, 3500kbps.
Just try to find your settings that you are happy with and your laptop can take.
Start with 720p 30FPS and the default preset, using the x264 encoder and around 2000-2500kbps bitrate.
If you hit the CPU-limit (90-95% load), select a faster preset (ultra/superfast) and check it again. You can increase your bitrate, but be careful - twitch is twitchy with bitrates over 2500kbps, some people with a crappy connection would not be able to watch your stream until you get transcoding (quality select button in your player). If you stream to other platforms, dont care about bitrate.
 
Cryonic said:
Ok, thats a bit different.
I have an Ivy Bridge i5 here in my laptop, with Intel HD4000 iGPU (no dedicated GPU, just the onboard). Its also going pretty high with 3,2GHz and it has Hyperthreading, yours is slower.
And i cant get decent quality out of this thing 720p 30FPS with a faster preset than default is the highest possible quality i can squeeze out of the CPU without hitting 95%+ constant load.
Same goes for Quicksync - do whatever you want, but this will look horrible even at "max." bitrate that twitch is able to take, 3500kbps.
Just try to find your settings that you are happy with and your laptop can take.
Start with 720p 30FPS and the default preset, using the x264 encoder and around 2000-2500kbps bitrate.
If you hit the CPU-limit (90-95% load), select a faster preset (ultra/superfast) and check it again. You can increase your bitrate, but be careful - twitch is twitchy with bitrates over 2500kbps, some people with a crappy connection would not be able to watch your stream until you get transcoding (quality select button in your player). If you stream to other platforms, dont care about bitrate.
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Ok thanks mate, reckon i could add you on twitter or skype and you can give me some tips & tricks for a good looking stream through obs?
 
PsYchDesmon said:
Ok thanks mate, reckon i could add you on twitter or skype and you can give me some tips & tricks for a good looking stream through obs?
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Nah, just test out the quality (local recording is enough, just make sure your connection to the selected twitch server is fine) and the CPU usage and find settings that will work for you and still look fine.
Every CPU is different, i also have no idea how good or bad will Quicksync on your Intel HD3000 perform - just test it out. Remember that the load is dynamic and you have to produce the highest load (get some action ingame with explosions or a lot of small objects like grass) to see how far the encoder will go - otherwise you may be happy with the performance until you get some action and overload your CPU.
 
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