Question / Help New Streaming/Recording Setup Help Needed

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Seanr

New Member
Hello,

I am having a couple of issues with streaming in particular. I am not knowledgeable in streaming videos but I am starting to get into it. I am using OBS to stream to my youtube channel.

I notice sometimes, well it seems like most of the time, my streams are a big laggy/choppy.
I don't have a high end computer as my gaming pc is dead so I am using my secondary dell desktop. Now, the first thing that would come to mind is the desktop is garbage with a factory intel HD graphics card so thats the problem, however, I can record gameplay just fine and in high quality. I think there is just an issue with the way I have the settings but can't seem to pinpoint it.

I am hoping someone can help me with the most optimal settings for streaming a video game.I do not have any dropped frames and never have. My settings are based on a combination of articles I have read online and from youtube recommendations.

Anyways, any information on the best settings would be appreciated. I am not worried so much about streaming or uploading high quality HD video. It can be 720p which is fine with me.

Pasting log as it won't upload for some reason. I removed a lot of the text toward the bottom which was redundant and only shows me stopping and restarting the stream.


203934.020 CPU Name Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz
203934.020 CPU Speed 2496MHz
203934.020 Physical Cores 4, Logical Cores 4
203934.020 Physical Memory 8050MB Total, 4300MB Free
203934.020 Windows Version 10.0 Build 14393 (revision 1198; 64-bit)
203934.020 Running as administrator false
203934.020 Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
203934.021 Portable mode false
203934.047 OBS 19.0.3 (64bit, windows)
203934.047 ---------------------------------
203934.048 ---------------------------------
203934.048 audio settings reset
203934.048 samples per sec 44100
203934.048 speakers 2
203934.048 ---------------------------------
203934.048 Initializing D3D11...
203934.048 Available Video Adapters
203934.050 Adapter 1 Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
203934.050 Dedicated VRAM 134217728
203934.050 Shared VRAM 4220923904
203934.050 output 1 pos={0, 0}, size={1360, 768}, attached=true
203934.051 Loading up D3D11 on adapter Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (0)
203934.056 D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used 45056
203934.839 ---------------------------------
203934.839 video settings reset
203934.839 base resolution 1280x720
203934.839 output resolution 1280x720
203934.839 downscale filter Bilinear
203934.839 fps 301
203934.839 format NV12
203934.840 Audio monitoring device
203934.840 name Default
203934.840 id default
203934.840 ---------------------------------
203934.842 [CoreAudio encoder] CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
203934.847 [AMF] Encountered Exception during AMF initialization Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
203934.847 Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
203934.859 LoadLibrary failed for 'nvEncodeAPI64.dll' The specified module could not be found.
203934.859 (126)
203934.902 Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
203934.907 No blackmagic support
203935.000 ---------------------------------
203935.000 Loaded Modules
203935.000 win-wasapi.dll
203935.000 win-mf.dll
203935.000 win-dshow.dll
203935.000 win-decklink.dll
203935.000 win-capture.dll
203935.000 vlc-video.dll
203935.000 text-freetype2.dll
203935.000 rtmp-services.dll
203935.000 obs-x264.dll
203935.000 obs-vst.dll
203935.000 obs-transitions.dll
203935.000 obs-text.dll
203935.000 obs-qsv11.dll
203935.000 obs-outputs.dll
203935.000 obs-filters.dll
203935.000 obs-ffmpeg.dll
203935.000 image-source.dll
203935.000 frontend-tools.dll
203935.000 enc-amf.dll
203935.000 coreaudio-encoder.dll
203935.000 ==== Startup complete ===============================================
203935.003 All scene data cleared
203935.003 ------------------------------------------------
203935.031 WASAPI Device 'Speakers Headphones (Realtek High Definition Audio)' initialized
203935.042 WASAPI Device 'Microphone (Webcam C170)' initialized
203935.074 adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds
203935.084 Switched to scene 'Diablo3'
203935.084 ------------------------------------------------
203935.084 Loaded scenes
203935.084 - scene 'Diablo3'
203935.084 - source '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III' (game_capture)
203935.084 - source 'Webcam C170' (dshow_input)
203935.084 ------------------------------------------------
203935.084 ---------------------------------
203935.084 [DShow Device 'Webcam C170'] settings updated
203935.084 video device Webcam C170
203935.084 video path usb#vid_046d&pid_082b&mi_00#6&27d3a2ed&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}global
203935.084 resolution 640x480
203935.084 fps 30.00 (interval 333333)
203935.084 format YUY2
203935.107 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203935.109 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] using helper (compatibility hook)
203935.110 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] hook not loaded yet, retrying..
203937.141 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203939.140 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
203941.173 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203941.206 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
203945.207 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203945.240 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
203949.241 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203949.273 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
203953.273 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203953.306 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
203957.307 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
203957.340 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204001.340 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204001.373 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204005.375 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204005.406 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204009.407 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204009.440 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204013.440 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204013.473 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204017.473 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204017.507 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204021.506 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204021.540 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204025.540 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204025.573 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204029.574 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204029.606 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204033.607 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204033.640 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204037.640 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204037.673 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204041.674 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204041.707 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204045.706 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204045.740 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204049.740 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204049.773 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204053.773 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204053.806 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204057.806 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204057.840 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204101.840 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204101.873 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204105.875 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
204105.906 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] capture stopped
204109.907 [game-capture '[Diablo III64.exe] Diablo III'] attempting to hook process Diablo III64.exe
 

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Seanr

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As someone who has worked in IT for 10 years, I should just admit the fact the computer just isn't powerful enough for high quality streams, But I would like to tweak as much as possible. No suggestions?
 
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SumDim

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Hey seanr... not going to lie to you but you are right in your assessment.

The system you have isn't that powerful. The i5-6500 isn't a screamer. Its about as fast as a low end AMD FX 8300 and isn't going to produce high quailty 1080 output, more like 720 output. You are using the integrated onboard Intel GPU and all that is really good for is doing productivity work, not high end gaming. It comes in very low in Passmark rating, almost 90% worse in performance than the top of the line GPU today.

If you get a Nvidia GTX 10XX card, you could do NVENC h.264 encoding from the GPU chip to offload the CPU. That will save you some money not having to buy a new motherboard and CPU. Your game play will be helluva faster as well. I would go that route. Then, as you get more into streaming, upgrade to a faster CPU/Mobo/GPU later on when the cost justifies it.

A Nvidia GTX 1050 (around $120) would be a good place to start.
 
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