Question / Help My settings

[Cowboy22]

Hello a have i3 4170, GTX 950 and 8GB RAM. Upload 50Mbps

My question is how to setting OBS for my stream.
NVENC or QuickSync?
What is better?
When i streaming with Shadowplay i dont have FPS drop.
When i set encoding to NVENC i will have FPS drop or no?
NVENC is the same as Shadowplay?

Ty for questions

 

[Boildown]

NVEnc is for recording. It sucks at streaming. If you want to stream with your setup, use Quicksync. If you want to record with your setup, use NVEnc.

Shadowplay uses some features that Nvidia hasn't unlocked for the NVEnc api, so its not exactly the same (its a little better). But Shadowplay has a lot fewer configuration options than OBS does.

Quicksync will be ok quality for streaming but it'll use more CPU. But with the CPU you have (i3), its probably your only good streaming option, depending on what game you're playing.

 

[Cowboy22]

Its true?

I want streaming CS 1.6 and Hearthstone.
NVENC is better for streaming for this game i think.

 

[alpinlol]

Those two games should even be possible with x264 720p30 Veryfast Preset

 

[Boildown]

That chart implies Quicksync has no CPU penalty, but there clearly is one... its just not nearly as big as the penalty as with x264 for the quality it produces (on Haswell or later at least).

And NVEnc doesn't stress the GPU either because its encoding is done on a separate chip that otherwise isn't being used.

But that chart doesn't measure the quality of the output, just the processing time. NVEnc's quality is bad unless you crank up the bitrate to extremes that can't be streamed. That's why you shouldn't stream with it.