Stream is Grainy and not smooth

drrichardhurts

drrichardhurts

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I have a decently beefy dedicated streaming PC and it looks like hot garbage on stream. It doesnt look smooth and crisp like some streamers ive seen,
my Streaming PC specs:

CPU - AMD 3950X
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Strix X-570 Gaming
Cooling - Custom water loop
RAM - 32GB G.SKILL TridentZ
GPU - ASUS Rog RTX 2080 STRIX
SSD - Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVME 1TB
Internet speed is gigabit symmetrical upload and download
im using an elgato 4k60 pro pcie capture card


I am gaming on a 1440p 144hz monitor. I have tried gsync on and off. I have literally tried everything ( higher bitrate, lowering resolution, etc.) and im not getting anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

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qhobbes

qhobbes

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qhobbes

qhobbes

Active Member
1. A slower x264 preset than 'veryfast' is in use. It is recommended to leave this value on veryfast, as there are significant diminishing returns to setting it lower. It can also result in very poor gaming performance on the system if you're not using a 2 PC setup.
2. The encoder is skipping frames because of CPU overload. Read about General Performance and Encoding Issues.

Doing the recommendations in 1 may fix 2. Also try using the NVENC encoder instead of x264.
NVENC recommended settings:
Preset: Quality
Profile: High
Look-ahead and Psycho Visual Tuning unchecked.
 
drrichardhurts

drrichardhurts

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Thank you for the reply. I am using 2 PC setup. I cant imagine why a 3950x cant handle the quality im after in my stream.
 
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