Bug Report Overall quality/Lagged frames

[Krazy]

That looks pretty damn good, only way you'll get it to look even clearer is if you go 1080p and pump the bitrate up, but there's not really a need for that.

how does SR3 look? That was the game you were initially concerned about, after all

 

[dramabomb]

Yeah, Twitch doesn't seem to handle 1080p very well lately. Rumor has it that they are doing massive server upgrades all this weekend.

I have not tried SR3 since I reset everything to fix that error. I'm going to try Dead Island tonight and see how good I can make it look.

 

[dramabomb]

Here's the Dead Island test:

http://www.twitch.tv/thedigitalbench/b/350533978

Here's the log:

Open Broadcaster Software v0.462a (connection fix test 1) - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
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CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU Speed: 3300MHz
Physical Memory:  4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
stepping id: 7, model 10, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 4, total cores 4
Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
Aero is Enabled
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Adapter 1
  Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti  
  Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 1025966080
  Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 3221106688
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
  Multithreaded optimizations: On
  Base resolution: 1920x1080
  Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Audio Encoding: AAC
    bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
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Video Encoding: x264
    fps: 40
    width: 1280, height: 720
    preset: veryfast
    CBR: no
    max bitrate: 3000
    buffer size: 3000
    quality: 8
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Total frames rendered: 51, number of frames that lagged: 0 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
  Multithreaded optimizations: On
  Base resolution: 1920x1080
  Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Audio Encoding: AAC
    bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
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Video Encoding: x264
    fps: 40
    width: 1280, height: 720
    preset: veryfast
    CBR: no
    max bitrate: 3000
    buffer size: 3000
    quality: 8
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Using RTMP service: TwitchTV/JustinTV
  Server selection: rtmp://live-iad.justin.tv/app
bufferTime: 1412, outputRateWindowTime: 1000, dropThreshold: 1912
Total frames rendered: 10408, number of frames that lagged: 11 (0.11%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Aborting due to bStopping
Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
=====Stream End=======================================================================

Profiler results:

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frame - [100%] [avg time: 4.809 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 91.3%] [unaccounted: 8.65%]
| scene->Preprocess - [0.0624%] [avg time: 0.003 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [91.3%] [avg time: 4.39 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 24.5%] [unaccounted: 66.8%]
| | CopyResource - [0.312%] [avg time: 0.015 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [1.89%] [avg time: 0.091 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [21.9%] [avg time: 1.052 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | sending stuff out - [0.416%] [avg time: 0.02 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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I'm using Gamesource capture with this. I can keep Aero on, right? The FPS definitely keeps up and I see no slowdowns on the video, which is nice. It still kind of looks like I'm looking at the game through beer goggles. It seems muddy and I've seen other streams where it looks much nicer. How can I get the quality higher?

 

[Krazy]

Well, it's going to look less clear because it's not in higher resolution. However, for first person view games, you should probably set quality balance even lower, like 5 or 6. It preserves the quality of higher motion scenes.

That is definitely very watchable, though.

 

[dramabomb]

I'm just trying to get it as clear as yours. Haha.

 

[Krazy]

I mean, I'm not really doing anything special, just using the normal settings, I haven't even messed with any advanced stuff other than setting process priority to Above Normal, but that helps with framerate choppiness some and not picture quality.