Question / Help Need help setting Ideal settings to my rig

[Assassin321]

So I have tried alot of ways to try and make the most of my rig and upload speed but I don't know how to make the absoulte best of it;


My previous streams for point of reference are here on twitch;
http://www.twitch.tv/iamassasin321



System Specs


Alienware M17x R4
CPU: Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.40GHz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 680m
RAM: 16GB


Upload speed; a solid ; 2.3Mbps

Third party Capture Card;
Hauppauge HD PVR 2+



Please get back to me ASAP

 

[Joshatdot]

It would help if you told us your current settings in OBS ..

To me, it looks like you're using 'Quality Balance' Encoding, instead of CBR. Also mute your playback on the PC, very annoying echo every 30 secs.

 

[Assassin321]

Encoding:
CBR: yes
Max bitrate 1850

Resolutio:
1920 1080 downsacle to 1280 720

Using Nvenc:
x264 preset; slowest
Profile: main
Nvenc preset: high quality

Not using Nvenc:
x264 preset: very fast
profile: main

 

[Assassin321]

Not using Quality Balance

and yeah i have it muted except for that one video you have seen,

 

[Joshatdot]

The image links you provided are just blank .. not sure what the problem is. The window title does say Settings..., but the contents are blank.

 

[Assassin321]

Yeah Gyazo screen grab must have a privacy thing

 

[Assassin321]

Edited above section

 

[Assassin321]

So these are my settings

 

[Assassin321]

This is with Nvenc

 

[Joshatdot]

Hmm .. the recent past broadcast videos look like they were 'Quality Balance' ie they kinda get blocky looking on fast action/movement.

Try Max Bitarate: 2400, and reset the Advanced Settings to Default, but only change x264 Encoding Profile to main. IIRC OBS cautioned me about fiddleing with those settings, but only tole me to use 'main' when streaming to Twitch.

edit: also you can 'edit' your posts/replys .. no need to add more replys.

edit2: I am pretty sure someone with log file analysis smarts can figure out if anything is wrong, or summat.

 

[Assassin321]

if my upload is 2.3 Mbps wouldnt that mean massive amounts of dropped frames?

 

[Assassin321]

for the suggested 2400kbps

 

[Joshatdot]

close all Tabs in Firefox/Chrome, etc .. exit/quit any apps that could use bandwidth: Steam (could be DL'ing in background), torrent clients, etc ..

Goto http://testmy.net/ .. click Test My Internet button .. tell us what results you get.

 

[Assassin321]

These are from both test my net and speed test


speed test is here becasue i live in Australia and there are no local servers the closest is in singapore.

 

[Joshatdot]

=\ bummer .. I've heard that AU has fairly low UP speeds, your DL is decent enough.

The OBS Settings guide I read, I think on this site, said to set bitrate to 80% of your upload speed, so your first setting of 1850 kb/s is right if upload is 2300 kb/s.