Question / Help My settings seem fine, but my quality is still grainy.

[MrTito]

Hi, a good friend of mine recently started streaming, and has inspired me to try it out. I've been at this for a few hours, but my quality is still pretty bad. I've tried high bitrates(5000), 720p, 1080p, x264, Nvidia NVENC, cbr on, cbr off, etc, etc.

No luck. My stream quality is still pretty bad compared to any other WoW streamer on twitch.

Here's my log file: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6c2a70e1b9b844785f30

Here are some speed tests:
http://speedof.me/show.php?img=140620033952-40957.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3575898477.png

PC Specs:
i5-4670k running at 3.4GHz
8GB ram
GTX 770

Here's a vod with my latest attempt(I recorded the log with this stream)
http://www.twitch.tv/mrtitotwitch/b/540270591

As you can see, everything is pretty grainy, and it's incredibly bad in the chat boxes. The text is kinda fuzzy and the colors are washed out.

Thank you

 

[Sapiens]

The chat boxes actually look fine, but you can't really see them unless you make the video full screen due to how small you've set the font. Honestly this is absolutely normal for 1080p video at 3500 Kbps with the amount of motion in a game like WoW. I think this may be a case of unrealistic expectations. If you're unhappy with the overall visual quality you should downscale the stream resolution.

 

[MrTito]

The chat boxes actually look fine, but you can't really see them unless you make the video full screen due to how small you've set the font. Honestly this is absolutely normal for 1080p video at 3500 Kbps with the amount of motion in a game like WoW. I think this may be a case of unrealistic expectations. If you're unhappy with the overall visual quality you should downscale the stream resolution.

Yeah, I've been known to be something of a perfectionist when it comes to the things I make, so it may just be that.. But I'd be lying if I said that there wouldn't be a little voice in my head constantly telling me that my stream could be better if I left it like this.

Do you think Quick Sync is worth looking into? Maybe I could set a higher quality cpu preset with that.

 

[Sapiens]

Hardware encoders like Quick Sync and NVENC are less efficient at compressing video compared to x264. You would get worse quality output at the same bitrate. They're great backup solutions for when your CPU can't handle running a game and encoding at the same time but generally shouldn't be your first choice.