Twitch streaming

[Fanaticcell]

My system is a i5 6500 and gtx 1060 with 8gb of ram, is this good enough for streaming? Because my stream is very laggy (the game runs just like normal) and other people have a worse pc than me but they can stream fine. Any ideas on how to fix or improve?

[LukeSavenije]

it's not that good with 4 cores. it might be better if you stream with 2 cores to the game and 2  to the stream

[Fanaticcell]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

it's not that good with 4 cores. it might be better if you stream with 2 cores to the game and 2  to the stream

How do you set that up?

[Julian5]

On 22/5/2018 at 11:35 PM, Fanaticcell said:

My system is a i5 6500 and gtx 1060 with 8gb of ram, is this good enough for streaming? Because my stream is very laggy (the game runs just like normal) and other people have a worse pc than me but they can stream fine. Any ideas on how to fix or improve?

I personally streamed with obs with your exact same setup. Had no issues but some slight frame drop on intensive games like PUBG on epic settings.

[Fanaticcell]

2 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

I personally streamed with obs with your exact same setup. Had no issues but some slight frame drop on intensive games like PUBG on epic settings.

the game has no problem running games at high graphical settings, but i am on a wireless connection but i get 15 upload and 100+ download. what settings do you use in obs? im probably going to wire my pc anyway.

 

[DrThots]

Just now, Fanaticcell said:

the game has no problem running, i am on a wireless connection but i get 15 upload and 100+ download. what settings do you use in obs? im probably going to wire my pc anyway.

 

I have the same setup but 16gb ram. Overclock your cpu and it should be fine

[Julian5]

23 hours ago, Fanaticcell said:

the game has no problem running, i am on a wireless connection but i get 15 upload and 100+ download. what settings do you use in obs? im probably going to wire my pc anyway.

 

I have 300 up and down, I have not streamed in a while but I recall using medium settings and a bitrate that was not high. You will have to experiment a bit see what works best.

[Fanaticcell]

Just now, DrThots said:

I have the same setup but 16gb ram. Overclock your cpu and it should be fine

the cpu is non-overclockable

[Julian5]

On 23/5/2018 at 12:08 AM, DrThots said:

I have the same setup but 16gb ram. Overclock your cpu and it should be fine

Honestly, the OC would make little difference, I didn't notice much more than a couple frames when i had it up in the 4.3 zone.

[Fanaticcell]

1 minute ago, DrThots said:

I have the same setup but 16gb ram. Overclock your cpu and it should be fine

did you mean gpu?

 

[Julian5]

23 hours ago, Fanaticcell said:

the cpu is non-overclockable

It is with custom BIOS from before intel locked them. However, you risk bricking a board with a weird bios like I did 2 weeks ago... It works but is risky.

[Julian5]

On 23/5/2018 at 12:10 AM, Fanaticcell said:

did you mean gpu?

 

The cpu will do the work with the streaming.

[DrThots]

3 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

I have 300 up and down, I have not streamed in a while but I recall using medium settings and a bitrate that was not high. You will have to experiment a bit see what works best.

how the hell do you have 300 up and down? I only have 50 up and 10 down

[Julian5]

23 hours ago, DrThots said:

how the hell do you have 300 up and down? I only have 50 up and 10 down

Fiber?, technically you can nearly get 1000mb/s on my current board. 

[LogicalDrm]

9 hours ago, Fanaticcell said:

How do you set that up?

You don't. OS allocates system resources to programs. If software is well made and can take advantage of more cores, then it will run on cores which are less used (most games will run on Core#0 and maybe #1). If it's only the stream that's choppy and not you dropping frames, then it's more about what bitrate and resolution you are using than specs being issue.

 

For 720p you should use 2700kbs at most.

[Underi]

I'd switch the encoder to nvenc and lower the resolution and stream only 30fps and use a suitable bitrate.

 

EDIT: a word

[Fanaticcell]

On 5/23/2018 at 3:29 AM, LoGiCalDrm said:

You don't. OS allocates system resources to programs. If software is well made and can take advantage of more cores, then it will run on cores which are less used (most games will run on Core#0 and maybe #1). If it's only the stream that's choppy and not you dropping frames, then it's more about what bitrate and resolution you are using than specs being issue.

 

For 720p you should use 2700kbs at most.

My pc is not wired but it gets a somewhat stable connection upload and download. Will this have anything to do with it? I realize wired is better but the stream is just a stuttery mess.

[LogicalDrm]

18 minutes ago, Fanaticcell said:

My pc is not wired but it gets a somewhat stable connection upload and download. Will this have anything to do with it? I realize wired is better but the stream is just a stuttery mess.

I can't say for sure. You would need to get wire and test it.

[grayperview]

On 5/22/2018 at 10:35 PM, Fanaticcell said:

My system is a i5 6500 and gtx 1060 with 8gb of ram, is this good enough for streaming? Because my stream is very laggy (the game runs just like normal) and other people have a worse pc than me but they can stream fine. Any ideas on how to fix or improve?

Yes download streamlabs obs, enable the intel GPU on your CPU, use these setting on it. 

 

https://streamlabs.com/

 

Video - downscale filter lanczos,  fps 60 Output scaled 1280x720 or 1440x810 if your pc can handle it.

 

Output- streaming Audio Track 1, Encoder QSV, Target usage balanced, profile high, keyframe 2, Async 4, Rate control CBR, Bitrate 6000

 

You should get a pretty good quality stream with these settings

 

I have experimented a bit with the AMD encoder and the Intel the video quality is about the same, but i found i got less stutters using the intel and less performance hit.

 

Note if you have multiple monitors make sure they are all set at the same refresh rate. or you will get major stutters.

 

 

 

 

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, super_skank said:

Video - downscale filter lanczos,  fps 60 Output scaled 1280x720 or 1440x810 if your pc can handle it.

 

 

Output- streaming Audio Track 1, Encoder QSV, Target usage balanced, profile high, keyframe 2, Async 4, Rate control CBR, Bitrate 6000

 

Getting steady 15mb upload for 6000kbs bitrate might be issue  with wireless. And it might be issue overall. There's no use of maxing kbs for few reasons. One being the upload speeds it required and other being that only Twitch partners get transcoding guaranteed.  = Viewers must match streamers upload speed/bitrate to get smooth viewing experience.

[grayperview]

1 hour ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

 

Getting steady 15mb upload for 6000kbs bitrate might be issue  with wireless. And it might be issue overall. There's no use of maxing kbs for few reasons. One being the upload speeds it required and other being that only Twitch partners get transcoding guaranteed.  = Viewers must match streamers upload speed/bitrate to get smooth viewing experience.

Yes wireless will be an issue, might be an idea to get some power line adapters, or running a long cat6 cable.

 

If the wireless is really good it might be doable though.

 

But the settings i posted will work nicely if you have the connection,