Streaming with a 1030

[Splashed]

So I want to stream on Twitch using Streamlabs OBS.

 

My specs are listed here:

 

i5-7400

GT 1030 (I’m getting one)

(I don’t remember my storage but it’s well over a TB)

12 GB of Ram

 

what are the settings I should use

 

and I plan to play R6

 

i also need to know the frames i’ll get at each level of settings (i.e. low, med, high and etc)

[iLostMyXbox21]

probably not above 60 while streaming. especially on medium or even high

[TTesla]

You're going to have some real issues streaming with those specs.

[Jurrunio]

15 minutes ago, Splashed said:

what are the settings I should use

 

and I plan to play R6

 

Minimum settings of everything except bitrate

 

15 minutes ago, Splashed said:

i also need to know the frames i’ll get at each level of settings (i.e. low, med, high and etc)

Test it yourself, no one else tried or will try streaming on something this slow

[mariushm]

As far as I know, nVidia disables the hardware encoder on GT 1030 cards, so OBS or XSplit or whatever you use will either have to use software encoding (heavy on the cpu, would slow down the games even further by stealing cpu from them) or you may be able to use Quicksync, which is part of the integrated graphics inside your CPU to accelerate encoding. You'd probably have to  leave the integrated graphics enabled and give it some decent amount of memory (256 MB or more) and from there... see https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-use-quicksync.82/

 

My advice would be to NOT buy a GT 1030 ... make an effort and buy an AMD RX 460 / 560 (as these would have hardware encoding and better performance) or at the minimum a GT 1050.... if you can it would be even better, a RX 570 ... you may be able to buy them on eBay for around 100$ these days.

[Splashed]

3 minutes ago, mariushm said:

As far as I know, nVidia disables the hardware encoder on GT 1030 cards, so OBS or XSplit or whatever you use will either have to use software encoding (heavy on the cpu, would slow down the games even further by stealing cpu from them) or you may be able to use Quicksync, which is part of the integrated graphics inside your CPU to accelerate encoding. You'd probably have to  leave the integrated graphics enabled and give it some decent amount of memory (256 MB or more) and from there... see https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-use-quicksync.82/

 

My advice would be to NOT buy a GT 1030 ... make an effort and buy an AMD RX 460 / 560 (as these would have hardware encoding and better performance) or at the minimum a GT 1050.... if you can it would be even better, a RX 570 ... you may be able to buy them on eBay for around 100$ these days.

For me it’s hard to buy “cheap” GPUs as I live in Canada because what’s cheap to others, it’s expensive-ish for me

[Jurrunio]

36 minutes ago, Splashed said:

For me it’s hard to buy “cheap” GPUs as I live in Canada because what’s cheap to others, it’s expensive-ish for me

You just made a lot of Europeans upset

[LogicalDrm]

8 hours ago, Splashed said:

For me it’s hard to buy “cheap” GPUs as I live in Canada because what’s cheap to others, it’s expensive-ish for me

You are still in better setting than anyone from Eastern Europe, AUS/NZ, India, South America or majority of Asia.

 

As for settings, any GTX card after 660Ti and you get NVENC. So look for used markets. You could get 720p30 going on if you are playing more competitive than touristic (=game graphics set for more fps and less distractions). What's your upload?