I need help with streaming

[Slovenian Master]

 

I saw this video, and i thought to myself, what if I could use that for a second pc used just for streaming. Without the expensive GPU ofcourse.

My current pc specs are:

• i5-4690
• 8 Gb of ram
• R9 270x

I just want a good stream quality without dropping much performance. I'm currently using OBS to stream, but i get much lower fps when I stream. Any ideas how to improve that. Looking for the cheapest solution. Any experience with capture cards?

[Tiwaz]

17 minutes ago, Slovenian Master said:

 

for that you would need to spend a lot just on streaming cards. You should be able to stream most of your games with your current system if you're using GFexperience or lower OBS settings. Just save up some money and upgrade your pc afterwards. Even if you had an old pc to use for that, if you arent serious about it, spending 200€+ on capture cards is not worth it

[Slovenian Master]

do you reccomend anything to do in obs? I mean, I can stream, but games feel laggy.. I was thinking about elgato hd60 pro, or if u reccomend any upgrades to my pc, so streaming would be better.

[BenR31415]

59 minutes ago, Slovenian Master said:

do you reccomend anything to do in obs? I mean, I can stream, but games feel laggy.. I was thinking about elgato hd60 pro, or if u reccomend any upgrades to my pc, so streaming would be better.

Look, streaming is going to be fairly intensive whatever you're running it on.

If you are starting to stream and record, you could go for a different system and use capture cards and the such, but unless you want to invest serious time and money into making that seamless that is likely just to be a pain in the backside.

 

When you're streaming, check your CPU usage just to check that that is the bottleneck (which I think it is). If it is:

Sell your i5, upgrade to a used i7, overclock it if you already have a Z87 or Z97 motherboard

OR

Upgrade to Ryzen, something like the R5 1600 or if you want to splurge an R7 1700.

 

If you were to go for a different computer, you'd be paying quite a bit for an HD60PRO, and another entire used system to go with it.

It would probably be a similar cost (and way more useful) to upgrade to a platform like Ryzen where you have more cores without paying an arm and a leg; and you also have a very clear upgrade path (AM4 will be here for ages).

 

I'm ridiculously happy with my R7 1700.

[Slovenian Master]

31 minutes ago, BenR31415 said:

 

tnx for help. I tested the stream right now, and CPU usage was 70-95%. Most of the time below 80%. 

I was thinking of building a very cheap pc for streaming. An old xeon or 4-8 core AMD CPU. Without the capture card, max 150€. If this would be any good. And maybe I could stream with friends from ps4 too, with a seperate pc.

[BenR31415]

1 hour ago, Slovenian Master said:

tnx for help. I tested the stream right now, and CPU usage was 70-95%. Most of the time below 80%. 

I was thinking of building a very cheap pc for streaming. An old xeon or 4-8 core AMD CPU. Without the capture card, max 150€. If this would be any good. And maybe I could stream with friends from ps4 too, with a seperate pc.

150€ + let's say another 150 for a capture card. From a really quick google search, a r5 1600 is around 250€ I think, and if you were to sell your CPU, motherboard and memory you should get more than enough to get a new mobo and RAM, plus the extra €50 of savings. The PS4 argument is there, but your current (and upgraded) computer would stomp any life out of a PS4, and you have an amazing PC compared to two lesser less useful ones.