Question / Help What should i buy to get my stream running at the best.

[NDIS]

Hello,

I've got a question about streaming League of legends.

When i try to get HD quality on my stream it always fails in the way of lagging hard.

I know my internet connection is more then enough. its 50/50Mbit fiber.
I know that my PC aint the best one these days. What i would to know is what to upgrade to get HD quality on the stream.

The specs of my PC are:

AMD Phenom 2 X6 1090T processor 3,2Ghz 6 core
12 GB ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX460

I think my processor and video card is outdated. Could someone recommend me what to get?
I really dont know what to get to get my stream smooth.


Thank you for your help!

NDIS

 

[Cloudwolf]

I don't have much experience with processors however your running a 3.2Ghz 6 core and im running a 2.8ghz quad core (intel) you should easily be able to do 720p considering I can. Now i don't know how amd vs intel effects performance with OBS. your upload is great and shouldn't cause you issues. your graphics card is slightly lower than mine (i'm running a gtx 470) Again it doesn't seem to me that should be your bottleneck. What settings have you tried using maybe post a log of your attempted stream so we can see what you set the res to, the fps, the bit rate, and other settings used so we can make recommendations from there.

 

[Krazy]

Honestly, that should be more than enough hardware to stream LoL in HD. Post a log please so we can see where exactly you are being bottlenecked.

 

[NDIS]

The log file is in the spoiler, hope you guys know what i am doing wrong.

Spoiler

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Open Broadcaster Software v0.51b - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
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CPU Name: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
CPU Speed: 3724MHz
Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
stepping id: 0, model 10, family 15, type 0, extmodel 8, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 6, total cores 6
monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1440, 900}
monitor 2: pos={1440, 0}, size={1440, 900}
Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
Aero is Disabled
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Adapter 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 758579200
Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 3489214464
=====Stream Start: 2013-05-04, 12:17:38===============================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1440x900
Output resolution: 720x450
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 25
width: 720, height: 450
preset: veryfast
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
quality: 8
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Total frames rendered: 132, number of frames that lagged: 0 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End: 2013-05-04, 12:17:44=================================================
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=====Stream Start: 2013-05-04, 12:28:20===============================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1440x900
Output resolution: 1440x900
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 25
width: 1440, height: 900
preset: veryfast
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 3500
buffer size: 1500
quality: 10
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Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
Server selection: rtmp://live-ams.justin.tv/app
SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
Using Monitor Capture
Total frames rendered: 54074, number of frames that lagged: 25 (0.05%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Aborting due to bStopping
Number of times waited to send: 0, Waited for a total of 0 bytes
Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
=====Stream End: 2013-05-04, 13:04:27=================================================
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=====Stream Start: 2013-05-04, 13:04:53===============================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1440x900
Output resolution: 1440x900
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
Using Monitor Capture
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1440, height: 900
preset: fast
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 3500
buffer size: 1500
quality: 10
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Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
Server selection: rtmp://live-ams.justin.tv/app
SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
Total frames rendered: 51015, number of frames that lagged: 5451 (10.69%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Aborting due to bStopping
Number of times waited to send: 0, Waited for a total of 0 bytes
Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
=====Stream End: 2013-05-04, 13:20:10=================================================
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=====Stream Start: 2013-05-04, 13:20:45===============================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1440x900
Output resolution: 1440x900
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
Using Monitor Capture
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 45
width: 1440, height: 900
preset: faster
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 3500
buffer size: 1500
quality: 10
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Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
Server selection: rtmp://live-ams.justin.tv/app
SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
Total frames rendered: 5560, number of frames that lagged: 306 (5.50%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Aborting due to bStopping
Number of times waited to send: 0, Waited for a total of 0 bytes
Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
=====Stream End: 2013-05-04, 13:22:52=================================================
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=====Stream Start: 2013-05-04, 13:23:25===============================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1440x900
Output resolution: 1440x900
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
Using graphics capture
Using Monitor Capture
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 40
width: 1440, height: 900
preset: veryfast
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 3500
buffer size: 1500
quality: 10
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Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
Server selection: rtmp://live-ams.justin.tv/app
SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
SharedTexCapture hooked
Total frames rendered: 6044, number of frames that lagged: 327 (5.41%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Aborting due to bStopping
Number of times waited to send: 0, Waited for a total of 0 bytes
Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
=====Stream End: 2013-05-04, 13:26:00=================================================

Profiler results:

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frame - [100%] [avg time: 8.887 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 93.6%] [unaccounted: 6.38%]
| scene->Preprocess - [52.1%] [avg time: 4.634 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [41.5%] [avg time: 3.686 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 41.2%] [unaccounted: 0.259%]
| | CopyResource - [0.248%] [avg time: 0.022 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [1.42%] [avg time: 0.126 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [39.3%] [avg time: 3.49 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | sending stuff out - [0.281%] [avg time: 0.025 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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[Krazy]

Well, you added a monitor capture source to the same scene as game capture, that will really slow you down. Monitor Capture is horrendously slow on Win7. It's best to put it on a separate scene, and use the scene switcher plugin (which you can find in the Plugins forum under Works In Progress section)

You should be able to do just a 1.25 or a 1.5 downscale at 30fps with that set up. You may consider lowering in game graphics to alleviate some of the burden introduced by streaming. You weren't dropping frames even at 3500 bitrate, so your internet connection is clearly solid.