How To Stream 101 (Help Me PLEASE)

[crakddx]

Heya everyone.

How the fk do I stream. Like get my stream recording and stuff. What encoder should I use? Should I stream off GPU or CPU, I plan to stream Valorant.

And one more question, Ryzen 7 5800x or Ryzen 9 3900x?

My Build:

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/Mr-G-Man/saved/M3DRK8

PS: I have not built this PC yet, so open to suggestions. I am buying a 240hz monitor.

Cheers to anyone who responds.

[SorryBella]

25 minutes ago, UwU Max Pro Extreme said:

PS: I have not built this PC yet

Well.... Budget?

 

25 minutes ago, UwU Max Pro Extreme said:

How the fk do I stream.

Like everyone else. Use OBS or their forks and set your things from there. There are a lot of basic video tutorials out there that can explain it far better than i am but ill give you the gist of things to atleast give you several ideas on things:

 

1. Start by making "Scenes". This will act like a folder of sorts between your stream scenery.  My setup have 9 scenes covering the usual scenario of game streaming and free chatting, but imo the basic you should have is a "starting" scene, and a game capture scene.

2. Add source. There are a few sets of things but the one you wanna focus on is Image (to add your overlay stuff), Game Capture, and Window Capture. 99.98% of the time you wanna use Game Capture or Window Capture to avoid exposing your other displayed things in the desktop which can be either very awkward or a spectacular security/privacy issue.

3. Get in the settings and get in the "Stream" tab. Connect your account to where you wanna stream (if you cant see your platform, click show all), and either get stream key or connect your account. Even if youre not going to stream on Twitch, i highly recommend having Twitch account connected to OBS so you can use their "Bandwith Test Mode" for next step.

4. Go to "Output" tab, switch to "Advanced Mode". On streaming tab, you wanna change "Rate Control" to CBR (Constant Bit Rate). You can stream with VBR but really the quality is gonna be between clear and fine or straight up super choppy all the sudden if your internet is horrible. For Encoder, use either NVIDIA NVENC H.264, or Intel Quicksync. You can stream in x264 or through AMD Encoding Engine, but the former needs a strong CPU, and the latter is just hot trash. You can rescale output if you wanna stream in 1080p or higher because the default is at 720p.

5. Turn on "Bandwith Test Mode" on "Stream" Tab, then exit the settings. Load up any game/content, and click "Start Streaming".

6. Open Stats window, thats in the "View" tab. From there, increase your bitrate until you start having Dropped Frames on your stats, and you see any "skipped frames due to encoding lag". From there, decrease your bitrate by about 300kb/s.

[crakddx]

2 hours ago, SorryClaire said:

Well.... Budget?

I already have a list, just haven't ordered it yet.

Anyway, thank you a lot!

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, UwU Max Pro Extreme said:

I already have a list, just haven't ordered it yet.

Well i wouldnt pull the trigger on all of it. 5800x would outperform it in games (even though 5600x would be far and wide better value, because again you should run NVENC for your streaming encoding), and Meshify C at 200AUD is kind of a daylight robbery when 4000D is there for 125AUD. And also, an average medium sized tower cooler is good enough for all Ryzens short of 3950x and 5950x.

[crakddx]

1 hour ago, SorryClaire said:

Meshify C at 200AUD

it's only 150