Question / Help Settings to stream on OBS

[coquitow]

Hi all, after my ISP upgraded my internet service (thanks god), I decided to stream some games since my upload speed will allow me now.

Im very confused on the settings.

I have a FX6300 6 core CPU
12 GB RAM G.skill 2100Mhz
A 240GB SSD
2TB HDD

Download speed 25Mbit / Upload speed 2.5Mbit.

With the new OBS, I just configured the Video bitrate to 1900, the encoder to X264, the server to US WEST: Los Angeles, which I tested with the twitch speed tester and was the best result.
The quality was OK, 720P, but.. I felt some FPS drop, and some times my ping went from 60(avg) to 120ms. Is there any way I can fix the FPS drop, and try to solve those ping peaks?

Thank you very much! And if there is any additional info I can provide, please let me know.

 

[Harold]

US WEST: Los Angeles, which I tested with the twitch speed tester and was the best result.

Best on what metric?

Also, post your obs log.

 

[coquitow]

Best on what metric?
Also, post your obs log.

I dont know what are you referring when you say metric. Here is a result of speedtest.net


Here is the obs log:

 

[Harold]

Are you basing your decision on bandwidth, rtt (actually meaningless) or quality (most important)?

 

[Harold]

If the connection quality is too low, your stream will simply not function right.

Post a screenshot of the results of twitchtest.

 

[coquitow]

Are you basing your decision on bandwidth, rtt (actually meaningless) or quality (most important)?

Thanks for your reply Harold. I would like to have an equilibrium. I reduced the bandwith to 1810 in order to keep streaming in 720p.
What would you change? Since I'm playing battlefield 4 I need to have some quality. But at the same time I need PC performance, because playing with low fps sux.

Do you think I'm killing my upload speed with 1810Mbits out of 2420Mbits?

 

[coquitow]

If the connection quality is too low, your stream will simply not function right.

Post a screenshot of the results of twitchtest.

It seems like the ping is pretty stable. Now I would like to fix that fps drop. In this second test, there are some differences from the 1st I made of about 200Kbps less on every result

As you requested:

 

[Harold]

That connection isn't really suitable for streaming. Quality numbers are too low.

 

[coquitow]

That connection isn't really suitable for streaming. Quality numbers are too low.

Ok. thank you.