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I've upgraded the internet... only mine, not all of it. Can my PC cope with streaming at 1080p 60 or 30fps? Or am I better off just recording and uploading?

 

Specs are: i5 3470S

10GB DDR3

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EVGA Nvidia 1050ti 4GB

 

I'm assuming my CPU and GPU just is not beefy enough for the compression? While of cause I can record lossless/low performance and convert/scale later using full CPU power.

 

But others might have experience with a similar setup? Using Twitch, OBS... and may try Gefore Experience streaming.

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Your CPU is not quiet beefy enough i guess

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Not at 1080p60. 

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You can use nvec, which is the encoder from the GPU, that would be the only way. You would be best trying at 720/60 first before going up to 1080. 

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The way you can do it is use NVENC in OBS. The quality you get for the bitrate you use is lower, but it completely takes the compression load off your cpu and puts it on your gpu, and it doesn't interfere with gaming really. Uses same thing shadowplay does. Your GPU has some dedicated video encoding thingie. I used to stream using a dedicated capture PC, but often I used a laptop and a usb card and did some additional compression on the laptop using this (portable). Worked very well as far as getting a nice stutter free stream. 

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not going to be any good for CPU compression and whatever seeing as thats a low power chip but as others have said, you can use NVEC in OBS and it should be fine

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21 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

I've upgraded the internet... only mine, not all of it. Can my PC cope with streaming at 1080p 60 or 30fps? Or am I better off just recording and uploading?

 

Specs are: i5 3470S

10GB DDR3

SSDs and HDD

EVGA Nvidia 1050ti 4GB

 

I'm assuming my CPU and GPU just is not beefy enough for the compression? While of cause I can record lossless/low performance and convert/scale later using full CPU power.

 

But others might have experience with a similar setup? Using Twitch, OBS... and may try Gefore Experience streaming.

honestly no I got a i7-2600 and I struggle at 720p 60 with a gtx 1060 so maby 720 depending on your internet the gpu nvec thing can do 720 60 though try it out you might have to lower settings.

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1 minute ago, Justin2Justin14 said:

honestly no I got a i7-2600 and I struggle at 720p 60 with a gtx 1060 so maby 720 depending on your internet the gpu nvec thing can do 720 60 though try it out you might have to lower settings.

I can stream 108060 on a sandy i7 laptop using cpu encoding just fine, and have done so, though as a dedicated device.

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36 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Not at 1080p60. 

Yeah I was overly optimistic trying 60fps! I'm getting smooth play in gameplay and upload at 1080p30fps. Lower quality thought. :( Strange the GPU streaming works flawlessly, but even on high settings is not great quality.

 

A standalone streaming box would have no trouble, but for now I have just the 1. Only Rocket League is going to be FPS/GPU/CPU intensive as such. KSP will be CPU intensive, but I should be able to do recording only or GPU encoding for that.

 

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Using the GPU seems to be working. I can do 720p nicely. Seems removing a couple of little things, 2pass encoding, 30fps (60 in game), and high quality/bitrate seems to give a nice video with little to no bad artifacting (just quality/blur which is watchable).

 

Took a while to figure it out. Only problem it the game I'm trying, Rocket League, gets a bit of lag from it. I cannot figure out if this is GPU/CPU/network. As I'm not using all my network bandwidth, it might be latency? But not sure how to get it to show in game, as it's only happening on kickoff... so something about that is different in the game, and it does not like me streaming.

 

I guess I can try low bitrate and see if the in game lag goes... or see if my router can do network priority/latency splitting?

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