Question / Help Need Help Fixing Blur On Stream and Local Recordings

[Trevor Schramm]

So basically when I try to record league or stream league or any other game it doesn't drop frames but it gets blurry when things start moving alot. I have a good PC and I think my settings are okay. Please help! here is my log file, https://gist.github.com/7595a7b6316695ef6456 along with all my OBS settings thanks in advance! http://imgur.com/a/thOzh

 

[Boildown]

Turn Aero on and use Game Capture. Also turn CFR on.

When not streaming and just saving to the hard drive, follow the advise found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.12600

When you are streaming, set your FPS down to 30 and make your bitrate and buffer match. 3000/3000, for example. If you're streaming to Twitch, keep them both at 3500 or less.

Your Duplicated Frames are extremely high, 20-40%. You want them to be less than 1% for your stream to look good. The Aero on + Game capture changes should help with that.

 

[Jollyriffic]

I would also drop the resolution to 720.
to be HD with 1080p you'd need to stream in no less than 4,500kbps
check mark both CBR and CBR padding, dont check a box for custom.
set your kbps to a solid 3000 like boildown said

 

[FerretBomb]

Jolly, the traditional 'barebones' for 1080p is around 3000kbps; and on a low-motion game like League, it looks excellent at that rate. 3500 is also the max that Twitch wants to receive regardless of resolution, so it's absolutely workable at significantly lower than 4500... even if you might get some blocking if you're playing an FPS.

 

[Jollyriffic]

No, Traditional 1080 is 4,500kbps (for streaming), the bare minimum would be 3,000. but you can think of that 3,000 the same as playing a videogame with the "bare minimum" hardware. you're going to loose all your quality and awesome graphics. i base the "traditional" on the actual video parameters and years of editing video.

720p in 3,500 vs 1080p in 3,500... 720p is going to look much better.
another factor is that twitch video box is roughly 960x540, so taking 1080 and squashing it by half makes it look bad to begin with.
so why waste time playing around with 1080?

i prefer crisp-quality over flashy words like 1080 or 60fps.
Its the same comparison as buying a Dell with an i7, sure the i7 is nice, but, every last part in that computer is garbage.

IMO, above 3,000kbps is unreasonable to subject the masses to that kind of download rate, without the option to change it (non-partners).

lets not forget, the OP is trying to remove the blurry look from their stream. the fact he is trying to stream with the range of 2,500kbps to 3,000kbps is a huge factor in his quality/clarity. At 720 this will permit him to run slower preset for that jump in clarity while having the correct kbps for the parameters of the video to be defined as "close" to HD.

 

[FerretBomb]

I more meant in regards to Twitch livestreaming, not video mastering; 4500 is FAR past the maximum ingest rate listed, and can cause problems server-side. 1080p becomes considered 'watchable' at 3000kbps. It isn't going to avoid artifacting entirely, but any that present themselves will be minor. And on low-motion games (league) that bitrate is generally severely reduced... low-motion games look excellent at 1080p@30 at 3000kbps, and do not artifact.

Personally, I prefer running 720p@30 at 3K for most of my high-motion streams, but do bump to 1080 on games where I can get away with it (mostly isometric tactical games or strategy games); a statistically significant portion of my viewerbase uses full-screen mode, or pipes the stream to their HDTV, and appreciate the native-resolution (if nothing else, it prevents text from looking like complete crap on the downscale). Sure, many leave it popped-in, but then a number also leave it on in the background entirely and just listen, rather than watching the video.

I'd also agree that non-partners shouldn't be going at 3K. I continue to advocate 720p@30fps at 2000kbps is the 'sweet spot' for non-partners, while 'watchable' starts at 1500. :)

 

[Trevor Schramm]

Turn Aero on and use Game Capture. Also turn CFR on.

When not streaming and just saving to the hard drive, follow the advise found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.12600

When you are streaming, set your FPS down to 30 and make your bitrate and buffer match. 3000/3000, for example. If you're streaming to Twitch, keep them both at 3500 or less.

Your Duplicated Frames are extremely high, 20-40%. You want them to be less than 1% for your stream to look good. The Aero on + Game capture changes should help with that.

How do I make and save presets?

 

[FerretBomb]

Open OBS. Click 'Settings'. In the General section, type a new name into the 'Setting Profile' box, and click 'Add'. Then change your settings. Any changes are auto-saved to the currently active profile. So don't swap your settings THEN go to create a new profile to save them under, or your current ones will be lose. Make the profile first.

After that, you can click OK, and up at the top of the main OBS window there's a 'Profiles' menu. You can swap between them quickly that way. But to change profiles, you DO have to take your stream down and bring it back up again.

I have a few profiles set up. HD mode, Normal mode, Racing games (ultra-high-motion), and Offline Test mode that just records locally, for trying out new settings and seeing how they'll look without actually bringing my stream up. You can even set up different profiles for different accounts; most streamers with a sizable following have a 'testing' account for live-firing streams and having friends double check that everything is working right on the 'secret' stream, before going live on their main account.