Streaming 101 - By TheGunrun - Page 2

On February 07 2012 04:50 Balgrog wrote:
GunRun you are the man, thank you so much for writing a guide using twitch and xsplit, one was much needed! Thank you for being the hero esports needs, and not the one that we deserve.

On February 07 2012 04:38 l_Kyo_l wrote:
edit: Gunrun is too helpful too the community. Everytime I see him pop up somewhere I only wish I could be as helpful haha. This is really great for people who are completely new to streaming, would have helped me about a year ago so much T_T :D

To give people some "specific" help I've taken screenshots of MY personal settings to help give some benchmarks of what you can do with your stuff.
I have a Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 95W exactly as noted above - however mine is OC'ed to 4.6ghz. For this CPU and streaming I HIGHLY recommend OC'ing if you'd like above high quality - of course BE SAFE when doing this! >.> For whatever reason, the CPU can record any local recording without OC regardless of the game or quality, but needs to be OC'ed greatly to get good streaming results - from my experience, again.
I have a GTX 560 OC
and for less important information I have
8gigs of ram
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus for i5 and i7s
and a MSI P67A-G45 motherboard
A pretty cheap setup now and days... runs about ~800$/1000 but look below for my results

For my xsplit settings I have them set to this(I'm only using this because my upload at schools is incredibly high, see last screenshot for luls.) Prior to increasing all of xsplits settings I used 7 quality/2900 bitrate and the quality was still incredibly high. As noted above you don't really need the quality turned all the way up, prior to my current setup xsplit would not work properly if it was above 8 quality. >.>
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And now for some in game results - gameplay shown at 25 seconds.
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Hope this gives some people an idea for very similar setups to mine :D

Rofl my speed test btw:
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