Optimal Settings for Streaming

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Didn't know where this topic should go so I'll just drop it here

 

My Machine: 

i9 9900k

RTX 2070

16GB DDR4 3200mhz

Asus ROG MAXIMUS XI Hero (wifi)

I built my current machine not too long ago with some of the best parts that were out at the time (sadly I got my 2070 before the Super lineup). This little beast has been able to provide me with endless hours of entertainment playing all the games that I want at high or ultra settings with little difficulty. However, recently I wanted to push my system, one of the main reasons I chose the i9 was because I wanted to get into streaming my games on Twitch. With that goal in mind I downloaded Streamlabs Obs and decided to give it a try. After doing some brief setup within streamlabs and testing my settings by recording an FPS (Rainbow Six Siege) I noticed that the recording was very pixelated and stuttering every few seconds. I used both Nvenc (new) and x264 encoding, both of them produced the same results. When upping the recording bitrate to 25000 the pixelation decreased but the recording would still stutter and freeze from time to time. I know basing streaming quality off of the recording quality is not what I should be doing but I'm having trouble finding optimal settings for my setup. On paper my machine should be able to record and stream with no problems at all. While using Nvidia Shadowplay for instance my recordings and streams are buttery smooth with no pixelation whatsoever, but using streamlabs I do not get such a result. Anything im doing wrong here? What are the optimal settings for recording and streaming?

 

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, Empty__ said:

Didn't know where this topic should go so I'll just drop it here

Just watch like all of the content EposVox puts out

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38 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just watch like all of the content EposVox puts out

I have, his videos were some of the few things I did in order to prep for streaming to twitch. Following his advice and copying his settings give me the same issues as before, the pixelation has gone away but the stuttering has stayed. He does say that settings are different for every person but a baseline would be greatly appreciated. 

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Empty__ said:

I have, his videos were some of the few things I did in order to prep for streaming to twitch. Following his advice and copying his settings give me the same issues as before, the pixelation has gone away but the stuttering has stayed. He does say that settings are different for every person but a baseline would be greatly appreciated. 

Are you capping your in game fps to give your GPU some freed up cores?

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4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Are you capping your in game fps to give your GPU some freed up cores?

For Rainbow Six Siege the only in game fps cap that I can find is turning vsync on so that the frames cap at my refresh rate (165). The stuttering still happens, I usually play siege on all high or ultra but have since set all settings to medium or lower. 

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11 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Are you capping your in game fps to give your GPU some freed up cores?

When using vsync and having my gpu at only 35-40% usage maximum the recordings still lag and stutter. 

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11 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Are you capping your in game fps to give your GPU some freed up cores?

Interesting realization as of a couple minutes after that last update, minimizing streamlabs while recording gameplay has negated all of the stuttering and lag issues, I do not know why it lags when it is open but im lag to find that my pc can handle the task even with my gpu at 85% usage as usual