GottaBlast
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BACKSTORY
Little back story if you want the tl;dr part I'll do a summary at the very bottom. I've been streaming for years. I started with xsplit then switch over to shadowplay. I switched over to OBS a few months ago because of a few reason, but mainly shadowplay sometimes would just stop and say stream stopped reduce quality after no changes to anything. I had the same computer and hardware for over a year and I didn't move locations. I thought it must of been some weird driver update with shadowplay and I switched to OBS because I also didn't like having to stop my stream and do a new one if I wanted to play a new game and change the title anyways. OBS starting out was rough because I was a spoiled from shadowplay making it easy with settings. I constantly was getting dropped frames and couldn't get my stream to work. Eventually after hours of trail and error I got OBS to work for streaming. The stream looked good and had no dropped frames. Randomly one day someone told me my stream was choppy and I looked at OBS and I was getting tons of dropped frames. I've been messing with the settings and I just can't get it to work consistently all the time.
SETTINGS
OBS settings vary greatly because I'm trying to find the perfect settings between no issues and the stream looking good. My goal is to stream 2560x1440 60 fps. I've gotten this to work a few times for several hours but randomly it'll just stop working and I get tons of dropped frames. I stream to youtube so I know people are gonna say you can't stream that high to twitch. I'll post the range of settings I've tried.
Video: 2560x1440 downscaled to 1920x1080 60 fps 32 samples (I used to use 2560x1440 not down scaled but I thought 1080p would make it work more consistently)
OUTPUT:
Bitrate: 2000-30,000 (I tried almost everything in between every 500-1000 differences)
Encoder: Tried both Hardware (NVENC) worked better more often
Audio bitrate: 128
Enforce streaming service bitrate limits: On and off
Encoder Preset: Default and tried High quality. (I haven't tried low latency settings but I don't think that's the issue?)
I tried Advanced settings as well and played around with them like CBR was highly recommended so I tried that with different birates.
COMPUTER SPECS:
i7-7770k
1080ti
32g ram
Windows 10
SPEED TEST:
I live in Southern California so I usually speed test LA since that's where twitchs host center is and I don't know where youtubes primary and secondary servers are.
LA: 350mbps download and 34mbps upload
San Francisco: 280mbps down and 18 mbps upload
I just purchased a new modem and a new router thinking that was the issue. I also did a pingtest for around 12 hours to googles server to see if maybe I'm having random less then a second internet drops or something, but the ping test came back fine I had like 6 dropped packets out of over 30,000.
TL;DR PROBLEM:
OBS will work fine doing 1440p 60fps for sometimes a few hours. Others it won't work at even 1080p for a few minutes. Streaming to youtube primarily but tested twitch just to see if youtube was the problem and twitch had the same problems. When having a problem with OBS I'll try lowering bitrate and other settings to see if that helps and sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't, but if I turn it off and stream with shadowplay it works no problem even at higher bitrate/video quality.
Little back story if you want the tl;dr part I'll do a summary at the very bottom. I've been streaming for years. I started with xsplit then switch over to shadowplay. I switched over to OBS a few months ago because of a few reason, but mainly shadowplay sometimes would just stop and say stream stopped reduce quality after no changes to anything. I had the same computer and hardware for over a year and I didn't move locations. I thought it must of been some weird driver update with shadowplay and I switched to OBS because I also didn't like having to stop my stream and do a new one if I wanted to play a new game and change the title anyways. OBS starting out was rough because I was a spoiled from shadowplay making it easy with settings. I constantly was getting dropped frames and couldn't get my stream to work. Eventually after hours of trail and error I got OBS to work for streaming. The stream looked good and had no dropped frames. Randomly one day someone told me my stream was choppy and I looked at OBS and I was getting tons of dropped frames. I've been messing with the settings and I just can't get it to work consistently all the time.
SETTINGS
OBS settings vary greatly because I'm trying to find the perfect settings between no issues and the stream looking good. My goal is to stream 2560x1440 60 fps. I've gotten this to work a few times for several hours but randomly it'll just stop working and I get tons of dropped frames. I stream to youtube so I know people are gonna say you can't stream that high to twitch. I'll post the range of settings I've tried.
Video: 2560x1440 downscaled to 1920x1080 60 fps 32 samples (I used to use 2560x1440 not down scaled but I thought 1080p would make it work more consistently)
OUTPUT:
Bitrate: 2000-30,000 (I tried almost everything in between every 500-1000 differences)
Encoder: Tried both Hardware (NVENC) worked better more often
Audio bitrate: 128
Enforce streaming service bitrate limits: On and off
Encoder Preset: Default and tried High quality. (I haven't tried low latency settings but I don't think that's the issue?)
I tried Advanced settings as well and played around with them like CBR was highly recommended so I tried that with different birates.
COMPUTER SPECS:
i7-7770k
1080ti
32g ram
Windows 10
SPEED TEST:
I live in Southern California so I usually speed test LA since that's where twitchs host center is and I don't know where youtubes primary and secondary servers are.
LA: 350mbps download and 34mbps upload
San Francisco: 280mbps down and 18 mbps upload
I just purchased a new modem and a new router thinking that was the issue. I also did a pingtest for around 12 hours to googles server to see if maybe I'm having random less then a second internet drops or something, but the ping test came back fine I had like 6 dropped packets out of over 30,000.
TL;DR PROBLEM:
OBS will work fine doing 1440p 60fps for sometimes a few hours. Others it won't work at even 1080p for a few minutes. Streaming to youtube primarily but tested twitch just to see if youtube was the problem and twitch had the same problems. When having a problem with OBS I'll try lowering bitrate and other settings to see if that helps and sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't, but if I turn it off and stream with shadowplay it works no problem even at higher bitrate/video quality.