Question / Help Will I be able to stream 720p/60 FPS on this setup?

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Hav3nsblade

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So will I be able to run a 720p/60 FPS with 3500 bitrate stream on an i5-3570 and a 660TI with 8GB RAM? Now, can I do that while broadcasting AC4? It's because sometimes I got the WARNING:Too long to encode, skipping frames message but, I've been able to do those settings with other games before like Arkham Origins and Dead Space 3
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

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It depends on how hard AC4 pushes your CPU and GPU, and the best way to answer this question is going to be to test it for yourself.
 
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Hav3nsblade

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Sapiens said:
It depends on how hard AC4 pushes your CPU and GPU, and the best way to answer this question is going to be to test it for yourself.
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Well, I did and I was dropping frames or got the warning message, even on 3300 bitrate with the other settings being the same
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

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You already said that you were able to stream at 720p60 in Arkham Origins and Dead Space 3 so I'm not sure what kind of answer you're looking for. Is it possible? Sure. Does it always work well all of the time? No.

Whether it's feasible will depend on the game - how hard it pushes your CPU and GPU and how much motion there is. If the game is working your CPU and GPU pretty hard then that's less for OBS to use. If the game is really high motion like a first person shooter, that takes more resources to encode than something lower motion like an RTS or MOBA.
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

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I'd also say that with an i5, 720@60 is going to be really pushing what it can provide, in terms of video encoding. Backing it down to 720@45 would probably give you a bit more breathing room... the i5 is a great processor if you're just gaming. But it doesn't have the grunt needed to game AND perform real-time video encoding in true HD, at high framerates, with good quality.

If your setup is compatible with QSV (Intel QuickSync Video) you may consider turning that on; it's a quality hit, but will drastically reduce your CPU utilization. You need a compatible CPU, motherboard, and may need to enable QSV in the BIOS (we've had a few people that hadn't done this last step and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work).
But as noted, QSV will not produce image fidelity as high as the non-QSV encode.
 
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