Question / Help Need some settings help for streaming Day Z

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thyreloaded

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First i would like to say hello.

Here are my specs

Mobo - Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
CPU - AMD FX-8320 Clocked at 4.2
Hard Drives - 2 120g Samsung SSD 840 Evos
Video Card - AMD Radeon HD 7800
Ram - G.SKILL Ares Series 16Gigs

Log Data
https://gist.github.com/edf754420f8086e53bb9


Internet speed (i know not always accurate)
81 down
38 up

My problem is that when viewer are watching me they say it is jumpy/laggy and has to buffer alot. I changed my setting a number of times from 1080p to 720p and back and forth , 30fps to 60fps back to 30fps. bitrate i have moved around. also changed the video x264 cpu preset to superfast. I restarted OBS a few times as well. Any help with getting a smooth stream that doesnt drop quality below 480. I would like to keep it at atleast 720.

Thank you.
 
thyreloaded said:
First i would like to say hello.

Here are my specs

Mobo - Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
CPU - AMD FX-8320 Clocked at 4.2
Hard Drives - 2 120g Samsung SSD 840 Evos
Video Card - AMD Radeon HD 7800
Ram - G.SKILL Ares Series 16Gigs

Log Data
https://gist.github.com/edf754420f8086e53bb9


Internet speed (i know not always accurate)
81 down
38 up

My problem is that when viewer are watching me they say it is jumpy/laggy and has to buffer alot. I changed my setting a number of times from 1080p to 720p and back and forth , 30fps to 60fps back to 30fps. bitrate i have moved around. also changed the video x264 cpu preset to superfast. I restarted OBS a few times as well. Any help with getting a smooth stream that doesnt drop quality below 480. I would like to keep it at atleast 720.

Thank you.
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there is a big difference on how we treat buffering or jumpy/laggy streams.
 
thyreloaded said:
Well the viewers were saying that it kept buffering every few mins. Then when it was streaming it was laggy.
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as I looked at your log again, 900p@60fps is really high to stream and will look aweful at 3000 bitrate. I would suggest downscaling it to 720p. maybe even 540p considering DayZ needs as much quality per pixel as possible.

That being said, give that a try and post back the results. dont watch your own stream just rely on a few viewers.
 
thyreloaded said:
what bitrate should i run for the 720 and then for 540. i do not watch my own. i do rely on the viewers
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Good deal. I always try and mention that. 720@60 would be around the bitrate you have or actually higher, but that might cause viewers to buffer. 540@60, you could use 2500-3000 bitrate for games like dayz.
 
I thought one of those logs would have that. I did change it to that as well. I guess the log does not get created unless you reopen obs. I did the change by just stopping the stream.
 
thyreloaded said:
So i streamed some last night and still had issues. Here are the logs.I used a couple different setting trying it out.

https://gist.github.com/1ba3317cf27f84171116
https://gist.github.com/b399e746832251531bec
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That first log looked better on the encoder. a few more settings to look at:
scene buffering to 700ms, set profile to main, lower webcam resolution to no more than your new streaming resoltution (720 recommended for that.

so are viewers saying you are still jumpy? or buffering? please ask them which, because as of those last two logs, you are no longer duplicating 11% of your frames. you are within tolerable range which is under 1%.

One more thing to mention is that your headset seems to be drifting in time. I'm hoping the scene buffering fixes that but you might want to replug in your headset or even update your chipset drivers for your motherboard's website.
 
thyreloaded said:
I thought one of those logs would have that. I did change it to that as well. I guess the log does not get created unless you reopen obs. I did the change by just stopping the stream.
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Yeah, it was probably lower in the log. Either way, if you are buffering from your users (not skipping but buffering) then there is an issue we cannot fix with settings besides lowering bitrate to 2000-2500. Since you've tested with that, I recommend you stay at 2000 til your viewers say it isn't buffering anymore.
 
ok. they say that it keeps buffering about every 10 sec.one viewer switch to his phone and was abl to watch the stream with no issue. he switched back to his xbox and it would buffer again. i had my friend watch on his computer and he said the same thing it will buffer every 10 sec. im so confused and fustrated at the same time.
 
thyreloaded said:
ok. they say that it keeps buffering about every 10 sec.one viewer switch to his phone and was abl to watch the stream with no issue. he switched back to his xbox and it would buffer again. i had my friend watch on his computer and he said the same thing it will buffer every 10 sec. im so confused and fustrated at the same time.
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the buffering is not your fault actually. Sadly, its sometimes on the viewer's end, sometimes on twitch's, sometimes on the viewer's ISP.

you could see if reducing your bitrate to 1800 helps but quality might suffer a little. also, please post another log of the settings I asked you to change, I want to see how OBS responds to them.
 
thyreloaded said:
also should i be changing my base resolution to do 540 or just just the down scaling thing.
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If your source video (the game) is 1600x900, that should be your base resolution. so no, I think you are fine down-scaling. Also, 600p is close enough to what I was asking for.
 
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