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StareX

New Member
Uhh hello!

I'm new here and not sure how to use OBS correctly.

I have watched many twitch streamers and I want to stream too.. my hardware is:

Windows 8.1 Pro 64Bit
16GB RAM
GTX 560 Ti
i5 3570k 3.4Ghz


Now I understand my processor is enough? but how about my GPU though?

Now, I have this internet speed:

41332kb/s Download Speed (40MBps)
3174kb/s Upload Speed (3MBps)

Okay so.. my settings in OBS:

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Unchecked "Use CBR"
Encoder: x264

Quality Balance: 8
Max Bitrate (kb/s): 2765 - Buffer Size (kbit): 2765
Didn't touch the audio encoding

Server "EU: London, UK"
Although I live in Israel.. Dunno if that is important.. on which server should I put?

Video resolution is 1280 720... but I am running 1440x900 natively.. dunno what going on with this, I have this on 1280 720 and the window's ok.. but when I set it to 1440x900.. it's not.. so Ima' just leave it there. (it gives me black bars..)


FPS: 60 (cuz I see 60fps better than 30fps.)


In Advanced:


Process Priority Class: Normal
Scene Buffering Time: 700


x264 CPU Preset: veryfast (cuz anything lower in an odd reason or higher is not giving me FPS issues)
Encoding Profile: main
Keyframe Interval: 2


and nothing else ...


Did I do this correctly? and also may I note, there's an FPS drop in my games and my CPU usage is going 100 percent sometimes.. why? I mean, I'm running 150fps on BF4, and when I "stream".. I get it lowered to .. hummmm, 90? 60? sometimes 50... why? and when I disable the stream, it brings me back to 150..

Even when I have stable 100fps.. and it's not laggy IG ... I see in my stream that it lags abit.. why is that too? my Upload speed isn't enough to stream or something?



What should I do to stream better? Help me :)

btw, I can't hear game audio, only my mic.. in twitch.
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Well you can just set obs to 1440x900 as your base resolution and use a downscale to 1152x720 (1.25). That will get you rid of the black borders in obs. There will be slight black borders for users with a 16:9 or 4:3/5:4 screen, but you can only make one type of Monitor user happy, the rest will always see black borders.
If you prefer to do a 16:9 stream you could of course use your method of setting obs to 1280x720. You could then for example move your source down a bit, so all black is in the top section and add a Title, music playing info or a graphic with twitter/facebook/whatever links.

For the server, you will have to test which gives you the best results, if you have no problems streaming to London, and everything works, its fine.

The cpu usage is going so high because you are encoding a 720p "movie" while playing your games, and that with a constant framerate of 60fps. I would personally keep the preset on veryfast with your cpu, but for some games you might want to lower the framerate in obs to 30, so it will free up a bit of room. For BF4 I always limit it to steady 100fps, that way the cpu usage to create the 50fps more you mentioned, can be used by OBS.

For the Game audio problem, post us a log file:
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/
As a little side info, 50% of the info you gave in your post is also present in the log :) So normally you would just have had to post it and ask your questions, for the future, might be quicker.
 
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StareX

New Member
Okay I figured how to set my stream to look good..
(btw audio is fine now)

I am running OBS in the background, and twitch.tv .. I tried muting the stream and unmute it.. but the audio just keeps on looping..

Any idea WHY? Looping meaning I say "Hi" .. move a window to the left.. then I hear another "Hi" ... then another "Hi" .. every 10-15 seconds..

I tried muting the stream to see if it is the problem , but I keep hearing "Hi".. lol even though it's muted xD
 
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StareX

New Member
I'm stupid.. sorry, I uhh... I know why.. it takes the audio from the stream itself, and I enabled audio IN twitch too.. -.- PFFT... ALL GOOD!
 
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