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Brownfield1995
By Brownfield1995
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So basically, I am very new at this. I recently made a Twitch.tv account and downloaded their OBS software for streaming. What I am trying to do is record my games at the highest quality I can and upload them to youtube. My system hardware are as followed:

 

MD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

ASUS M5A97 R2.0

8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory

Radeon HD 7870 2GB - Single Card

 

I would absolutely LOVE if someone can shed some light on why I can not get the quality I'm looking for (at least 720p) with no frame lag. I have looked up many videos on what to do but I think this is a better place to be knowing there's tons of techies around these parts. Thanks!

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I would say ShadowPlay, but since you have AMD I can't, but new software is coming out from them soon, but in the mean time I will research for you

game dvr already out maybe give it a try

 

So basically, I am very new at this. I recently made a Twitch.tv account and downloaded their OBS software for streaming. What I am trying to do is record my games at the highest quality I can and upload them to youtube. My system hardware are as followed:

 

MD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

ASUS M5A97 R2.0

8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory

Radeon HD 7870 2GB - Single Card

 

I would absolutely LOVE if someone can shed some light on why I can not get the quality I'm looking for (at least 720p) with no frame lag. I have looked up many videos on what to do but I think this is a better place to be knowing there's tons of techies around these parts. Thanks!

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Those settings are horrible. 2.5k when he has 10 up, Ultrafast x264 preset, 48khz audio which quite often fucks up Twitch.

 

Twitch itself has a nice guide with decent settings.

 

Also, OP, with 0.5 up, you won't make anything look nice. It's way too low unless you're planning on streaming at 320p / 20fps or something. That is, if you're streaming.

 

For recording locally, just set the bitrate to 20k-25k and set the CPU preset to veryfast. If you feel like the CPU is struggling, set it to superfast or ultrafast. 

When I change that, it makes the video really choppy. I can not seem to just record to the HDD without having a blurry or choppy video. I even have the game settings configured with OBS so the resolution shouldn't be a problem.

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For recording locally, just set the bitrate to 20k-25k and set the CPU preset to veryfast. If you feel like the CPU is struggling, set it to superfast or ultrafast. 

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Two major things here.

1) Your upload is too bad for streaming. You need atleast 2mb up to get something good with lower resolutions.

2) OBS isn't Twitches software. Its one of more popular ones since its free.

 

For recording OBS is good option but I'd use MSI Afterburner if you just want to get gameplay and maybe you commentating it. As for settings. For 720p, try 1800-2200kbs bitrate, Quality 8, audio MP3 160kbs, 30fps.

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Two major things here.

1) Your upload is too bad for streaming. You need atleast 2mb up to get something good with lower resolutions.

2) OBS isn't Twitches software. Its one of more popular ones since its free.

 

For recording OBS is good option but I'd use MSI Afterburner if you just want to get gameplay and maybe you commentating it. As for settings. For 720p, try 1800-2200kbs bitrate, Quality 8, audio MP3 160kbs, 30fps.

I downloaded MSI Afterburner and it is just a temp and statistic monitor.

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I downloaded MSI Afterburner and it is just a temp and statistic monitor.

 

I just updated mine to latests and weird enough, I can't see the tab for recording or enable it. Now I think this is because I haven't installed RivaTuner Statistic server (issues with TS). But its a feature. I used it in past because OBS can't record some windows for whatever reason.

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I just updated mine to latests and weird enough, I can't see the tab for recording or enable it. Now I think this is because I haven't installed RivaTuner Statistic server (issues with TS). But its a feature. I used it in past because OBS can't record some windows for whatever reason.

Darn. Yeah I just want to record in HD with no frame drops. That's all haha. But oh well.

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