EPTI normally post once every 10 days or so, but since I have been trying to get a stream up it has taken all my free time - because seriously... setting up a stream is terrible if you do not know where to start :S
I actually tried streaming some months ago, but since my computer could not handle it and my setup was bad I stopped trying - but then I suddenly got the feeling back! And now I want to stream every bit of randomness I can from my computer
I still have the same computer which means it still lags like hell and has somewhat of a bad picture - but I do not care! I want to stream, and I will stream! For any of you who has never tried setting up a stream with the best possible settings for your own computer, it really is a pain in the ass -__-
The first time I tried to set it up I did not even know that you needed all sorts of extra programs to make it work. And how should I? After some tries I started searching for something that included desktop and stream, since my desktop (games) was what I wanted to show. At some point I found a tutorial to set it up but I really failed big time. First I had to read 3 pages about how to stream, then download 3 programs or something while watching videos on Youtube to help me because I did not understand the text well enough to make it work myself. Besides this I had to set up a lot of settings, but NONE of the settings the dude in the video talked about or the next five pages the tutorial wrote about worked for my %&/¤ computer -__-
Everything went wrong. The stream would blur, the sound would be electronic sometimes, my computer would randomly go in BSOD mode (Blue Screen Of Death) or a hardware malfunction would occur :S
Everything went wrong. Remember this was the first time I ever tried setting up a stream.
Some days (5-ish) ago I then sat down at the computer with the feeling: I WANT TO STREAM, Downloaded the programs I knew I needed, randomly found day9's walkthrough on how to set up your own stream and violá! The stream worked after only a couple of hours^^ Last time it took 2 whole days to figure it out
The next couple of days I used finding the best possible settings for my computer. I still can not make it so that you can hear me while streaming, but when I talk to people on skype, you can hear what they say which makes for some weird conversations
That is it for this time - the next post will be out soon! I have a lot of improvement to show you ^^
edit: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/pestilenz
