Question / Help Which settings should I use for Twitch?

[shanshan_bam]

Hi, trying to stream to twitch but I'm new to all this and obviously technologically challenged, haha. My stream has a lot of lag and choppiness when streaming to twitch. I'm not looking for the best, I just want it to run decent. Please help me. I don't know what I'm doing.

Here's my log file. Thank you:

https://obsproject.com/logs/hb8zH7sdovtnXMXj

 

[FerretBomb]

1) Run OBS as Administrator. You're getting rendering stalls, which generally indicates an overloaded GPU. Running as Admin allows OBS to take GPU priority, so it can do its housekeeping tasks before the game you're playing uses up the rest.
2) Delete the Monitor Capture from your scene. Monitor Cap is the least-performant capture method and should be avoided if at all possible, aside from as an absolute last resort. Even having one in the same Scene as a Game or Window capture can cause conflicts and major problems.
3) Never stream over wifi. Run a network cable. Wifi is designed for lightweight content consumption, is not a replacement for network cables, cannot usually keep up with constant high-throughput applications (like livestreaming), and is extremely prone to interference and spectrum choke.
4) 1500kbps generally is not enough for 720p30 video. 2000kbps is the lowest I'd probably shoot for.

You're also getting some encoding lag which shouldn't really happen with NVENC; that may be being caused by having the Display Capture in the same scene as your Game Capture. Again, delete the Display Capture.

 

[shanshan_bam]

1) Run OBS as Administrator. You're getting rendering stalls, which generally indicates an overloaded GPU. Running as Admin allows OBS to take GPU priority, so it can do its housekeeping tasks before the game you're playing uses up the rest.
2) Delete the Monitor Capture from your scene. Monitor Cap is the least-performant capture method and should be avoided if at all possible, aside from as an absolute last resort. Even having one in the same Scene as a Game or Window capture can cause conflicts and major problems.
3) Never stream over wifi. Run a network cable. Wifi is designed for lightweight content consumption, is not a replacement for network cables, cannot usually keep up with constant high-throughput applications (like livestreaming), and is extremely prone to interference and spectrum choke.
4) 1500kbps generally is not enough for 720p30 video. 2000kbps is the lowest I'd probably shoot for.

You're also getting some encoding lag which shouldn't really happen with NVENC; that may be being caused by having the Display Capture in the same scene as your Game Capture. Again, delete the Display Capture.

Wow, just did everything you said and it's SUCH an immediate improvement, it's unbelievable! Thank you so much!!! You're a gem <3