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What do I need for streaming on twitch?

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Best way to know for sure is doing some test streams with different settings. But guessing, from given specifications, you should probably limit yourself to a maximum of 720p, streaming at fairly moderate bit rates (it might be a bit taxing for your laptop, and you don't want the streaming to interfere with your connection to game servers).

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Hello, I want to start streaming mainly league of legends on twitch and would like to know what are the minimum requirements I will need, including internet and uploading speeds and if pc specs matter.

I have 50mb download speed and 5mb upload, an amd a8 quad core laptop with 4 gb ram, is that good enough to stream? On what resolutions? Tyty

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Use Open Broadcaster. You might only be able to stream at 480p though.

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Your internet speeds are fine if they are reliable. If you are playing the game on the laptop and streaming from it to you may run into some troubles.

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Use OBS, your internet is good enough to stream HD content, but your PC is lacking. I don't know if you could compress the data fast enough to be sent. 

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Best way to know for sure is doing some test streams with different settings. But guessing, from given specifications, you should probably limit yourself to a maximum of 720p, streaming at fairly moderate bit rates (it might be a bit taxing for your laptop, and you don't want the streaming to interfere with your connection to game servers).

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Linus

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Use Open Broadcaster. You might only be able to stream at 480p though.

Thx, what is holding me back from streaming at 720/1080p? My upload speed or my pc?

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Use OBS and you'll be fine.

Is OBS a program for streaming? Thx every1 btw

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Thx, what is holding me back from streaming at 720/1080p? My upload speed or my pc?

Your PC, it's not exactly what you'd call fast

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Your PC, it's not exactly what you'd call fast

tell me about it, had a 600$ pc build all planned out, was planning for months, until my parents decided to suprise me with a "17inch gaming laptop" WITH MY OWN MONEY xD

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Is OBS a program for streaming? Thx every1 btw

OBS is a free software for streaming, it's one of the least resource intensive softwares to use.

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Thx, what is holding me back from streaming at 720/1080p? My upload speed or my pc?

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How about that thing that's built into the nVidia driver? It's supposed to stream to Twitch too....

Didn't read OP fully. 

 

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I liked Logan's tutorial

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