Question / Help Question about stream quality

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Talking about this broadcast;
http://www.twitch.tv/xsmoshi/b/467656788

It's a pretty good quality. Went 1080p@30fps
It's an old game, so doesn't require much to run.

However, when looking back at the stream I notice textures sort of blending together (very fuzzy/blurry) whenever I scroll the screen.

Is this due to Quality balance? Bitrate?
Here's my log;


No dropped frames... so that's good.
I have about a 5mbps upload

I know my CPU isn't the greatest, but I can stream most other games @720p with no hiccups. So I figured, I could stream a game from the 90s at 1080p (pretty much achieved it aside from blurry textures when I scroll the screen).
 

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Just because you're running an old game doens't mean you can go FullHD. Your CPU is just not good enough for this.

And to be honest. 720p@60FPS is better than 1080p@30FPS
1080p is just senseless.
 
Yep, a Core i3 isn't going to be able to encode 1080p in real-time (and I'd have my doubts about 720p@60). Even an i5 may/will have trouble with it.

I'd disagree with 1080p being 'senseless' though; on a low-motion game, or if most of your viewers go fullscreen, or if your cast is more meant for living-room viewing (via console app or HTPC) then 1080p will DEFINITELY give a better cast, assuming you have the CPU to encode it and the bandwidth to send it out. I regularly will swap to a 1080p cast for streaming MOBAs or tactical games, even if I normally run 720@60 for most everything else.
 
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