Question / Help Need some advice (dual pc vs single pc)

Dryernoke

Dryernoke

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Alright, heres my dilemma, I want to stream, 720p 60fps without it being blurry, pixelated, or washed out, AND also not having ANY impact in my actual game. I have no problem doing a dual PC setup. However, i just upgraded my main PC in hopes of not having to do the whole dual PC thing. And even with this new system, i can still feel that there is some kind of screen input lag on my games. My new PC specs-i7 5820k, 16gb ddr4 3000, msi x99, gtx970, 120gb samsung 840hdd, WD Black 1tb hdd. 60 Download and 8 Upload is my connection, very solid connection as well. No jitter. I am new to streaming, but i am willing to do whatever it takes to get a perfect 720p 60 fps stream mainly for CS GO, and not have my in game be affected by my stream. My potential Streaming PC would be- i7 950, 6gb ram, 1tb hdd. Not sure if i need to adjust my settings at all, or if the problem lies with me not being a Twitch partner and not being able to push enough bitrate to have a higher quality 60fps 720p stream. Any help would be great guys, thank you! twitch.tv/dryernoke
 
With this beastly rig, you can push out what ever you like.
Sitting on ASUS X-99A, 16GB DDR4 2866, Samsung 840EVO 120GB, Gigabyte GTX 970 and the i7 5820K @4,5GHz - this thing eats games for breakfast. Pretty much the same what you have, i think the overclocked CPU is the biggest difference (30% overclocking - you feel the difference).
You dont need a second rig for streaming, but you actually can use it, just test it. I´m happy with the performance of my rig so far (but not with the performance of OBS recently).
Generally you want 720p 60FPS 2500kbps as a non-partner (i still prefer the 3500kbps softcap as my lowest bitrate for the sake of quality). There is not much else what you can tweak, mostly the CPU preset for the x264 encoder. You can go for faster or fast for maximum quality (but this will hit your CPU really hard) or for ultrafast to lower the CPU load. leaving more power for CS:GO.

If you use the second rig, set up an rtmp server there and use NVENC or x264 with low settings and high bitrate to push the videofeed to your second rig. Bitrate can be 50k or even higher, depends on what you like and what your local network can handle - having this hardware i expect a nice gigabit network there that should be able to handle it without problems.
 
I dont think its necessary to have two rigs for streaming, but i imagine it's a more solid solution. I stream at 720p/30fps at 2500kbps bit rate using faster. Using these settings, streaming has neglible impact on any game I play. I have never really tried 720p/60fps, but i will tonight.

System:
i74930k @4.4ghz
32 gigs of ddr3@2400mhz
3x 290x
 
The whole goal of me just building this Haswell-E system was to see if I could get a single system streaming solution, with no noticeable effect in game. And I can obviously tell a difference the way my game plays streaming vs not streaming. It doesn't matter if I'm showing 400 Fps while streaming. Which I am a lot of the time, I am still getting in game glitches from time to time, and my screen feels somewhat jittery. I am used to playing 144hz and no glitches at all, so any bit of screen cap is enough to make big difference to me.
 
Well i feel it too. But remember, when you stream, you have to deal with your chat, plugins like sub alerts etc, you will not play on the same level like playing alone. And you can change the settings so the game is not affected at all, the hardware is really powerful - you just have to tweak the settings until you like it.
 
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