Everyone should know about this
hopefully this has not been posted somewhere already, but I just found the solution as to why I've sometime I experiences a lot of low framerate (at least in StarCraft 2).
Stream choppiness will arise when you stream with a high bitrate & resolution in a non-partnered channel (i.e. you can't choose lower resolutions) and open your stream on the Twitch.tv dashboard or channel page. This happens for me even though I have plenty of bandwidth left over (not using all of my upload bandwidth and not nearly half of my download bandwidth), thus I have no idea what's causing it. In StarCraft your game will become very choppy (pretty close to unplayable) until you close the concerning tab (I have not checked whether this causes the same issues in other games or if it occurs in Xsplit as well). Unfortunately without the dashboard open it's kind of hard to monitor your viewer numbers and change the title of the broadcast (not sure if taking the stream preview out via a client side browser script would help).
Sorry if this was general knowledge, just thought I'd spread the information so that I can spare some people the headaches I experienced ;)
hopefully this has not been posted somewhere already, but I just found the solution as to why I've sometime I experiences a lot of low framerate (at least in StarCraft 2).
Stream choppiness will arise when you stream with a high bitrate & resolution in a non-partnered channel (i.e. you can't choose lower resolutions) and open your stream on the Twitch.tv dashboard or channel page. This happens for me even though I have plenty of bandwidth left over (not using all of my upload bandwidth and not nearly half of my download bandwidth), thus I have no idea what's causing it. In StarCraft your game will become very choppy (pretty close to unplayable) until you close the concerning tab (I have not checked whether this causes the same issues in other games or if it occurs in Xsplit as well). Unfortunately without the dashboard open it's kind of hard to monitor your viewer numbers and change the title of the broadcast (not sure if taking the stream preview out via a client side browser script would help).
Sorry if this was general knowledge, just thought I'd spread the information so that I can spare some people the headaches I experienced ;)
