Question / Help OBS Settings

[Silentdevil]

Hi people,

im trying to stream and for whatever reason i suck at setting OBS up or my pc just isn't up to the job,

I have a I7 2600k
24gb of ram
2x ATI 290x's
and ssd's and Hdd

i've tried multiple setups on OBS, with me either losing all quality or having quality but get stutters and high encoding.

here is the Video page:

here is the Output page:

here is the advanced page:

i also have tested bandwith with Twitch Bandwidth Tester:

Ive tried running OBS on different places to the games and even on a different drive from windows.

how much worse does it make it by putting the CPU preset even higher. should i give up all together if i have to go above very fast?
and would it actually benefit if i can OC my CPU, i can get it to run around 4.6GHZ
thanks

i hope the post makes sense.

 

[Yurlyn]

If you're not partnered I wouldn't go for 3500kbps nor 60fps. Mostly it's recommended around 1750kbps and max 30fps. You could start checking those and see if your pc can handle it a bit better.

 

[Silentdevil]

thanks for the reply,

ahh right so if your not partnered, you don't get benefit of 60fps?

 

[DevonCM]

ahh right so if your not partnered, you don't get benefit of 60fps?

It's not that you can't do it, just that Twitch has bad servers and a bad player, so lots of people will get buffering if they aren't on a great connection and you're streaming at a high bitrate. Naturally, double the framerate requires higher bitrate to look decent, so that's where those issues come up. Partnered channels have transcoding on their streams, so viewers with less than ideal connections are able to select a lower quality.

Hopefully Twitch will upgrade their services sufficiently, since this issue is basically nonexistent on YouTube Gaming and at far higher bitrates than Twitch even allows.


In regards to your overclock question... yes, obviously the higher your CPU is clocked the more performance you'll get. As long as you can run stable temperatures, do it.
Always keep an eye on your CPU usage and temperatures while streaming. It's important to see if you're hitting max usage, because that will cause you to have poor performance and drop frames.