Question / Help Question about bitrate and resolution on Twitch.

[jmanlol]

Hello, so I've noticed that my Twitch stream has been struggling with resolution, it will look super good one second, but then it will become very grainy and pixelated. I decided to run OBS Auto-Optimizer, and noticed it made a bunch of changes from what I previously had. I had the bitrate at 2500 but it adjusted my bitrate to 6000. It also set my encoder to AMD instead of x264 (I run an AMD graphics card and CPU), and it changed my scaled resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x720.
Previously I was running 1920x1080 at bitrate of 2500. My upload speed is 29.8Mpbs. Was the setting I was previously running incorrect, and will these new settings likely eliminate some problems with grainy resolution? PS if it helps I'm running 16gb of RAM overclocked and a Ryzen 5 1600 overclocked, with a Radeon rx560.

 

[Org]

Please don't try to stream at 1080 with only 2500 bitrate, even retro games can look bad, most people can't watch in 1080 anyway, and if you don't have transcoding you'll find that fewer people can even watch. Since you didn't go into detail about your 264x settings I won't either, but I've only ever used nvenc which works quite well actually so I can't say how good the amd hardware encoder is, however a beefy processor with tons of cycles to spare can surpass the quality of hardware encoding, however possibly not while also playing a game at the same time, and you only have a 1600 so yes hardware encoding is probably a better choice for you. -- If you must have a lower bitrate as you don't always have transcoding then 720@30 3000 bitrate, if they can't handle 3 Mbit then you're just making it look worse than it needs to be, but some games might still look bad at that bitrate. Streaming needs bandwidth, and on Youtube you can power out that upload as they always provide transcoding, but you can't view the source like you can on Twitch which can be superior for those who can watch it. I do 2k@60 21000 bitrate on youtube, just don't try that on twitch, they don't like streams over 8 Mbit last I thought, and preferably not over 6 Mbit.