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Balgrog
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1221 Posts
February 06 2012 19:50 GMT
#21
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.
The only way to attack structure is with chaos.
Parsnip
Profile Joined December 2011
United States7 Posts
February 06 2012 20:08 GMT
#22
Thanks alot, you're the man Gunrun!
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
February 06 2012 20:08 GMT
#23
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.


You do realize that there are other guides out...

Nice guide, I do have a bone to pick about the processor section.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
obsKura
Profile Joined March 2011
Ireland1061 Posts
February 06 2012 20:09 GMT
#24
oh noes, Gunrun no longer a wizard... secrets revealed! :O

Thanks for the guide! ^_^
C9 ~^v^~ In EE-sama we trust. ~^v^~ C9
Killerhands
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States269 Posts
February 06 2012 20:12 GMT
#25
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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1920x1080 Resolution
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And now for some in game results - gameplay shown at 25 seconds.
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http://www.twitch.tv/kyo7763/b/307737563


Hope this gives some people an idea for very similar setups to mine :D

Rofl my speed test btw:
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[image loading]
>.>.....Obviously doesn't need to be this high, like noted just a bit under your max to compensate for xsplit jumping ^_^


You really shouldn't post your stream key xD. You should blur it out...

Very informative, though, thanks.

also, holy crap dat upload
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GWBuffalo
Profile Joined January 2011
United States234 Posts
February 06 2012 20:13 GMT
#26
Any chance we can get a guide to tweaking the X264 settings in the preset line? Or are those your trade-secrets?

Either way, great guide!
HellGreen
Profile Joined September 2010
Denmark1146 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-06 20:59:58
February 06 2012 20:18 GMT
#27
Interesting and helpful - Thank you for this - much <3 for your work around the world.

As for the RAM recommendation, can you shed some light on this? How much better (benchmarks etc)?
Free to do whatever I want!
CaptainTwig
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom532 Posts
February 06 2012 20:47 GMT
#28
imma bookmark the shit outa this.
VENDIZ
Profile Joined October 2010
1575 Posts
February 06 2012 20:55 GMT
#29
TheGunRun, a god amongst men!
SaGe fighting!!~~~~~~
NEXUS6
Profile Joined July 2011
United States413 Posts
February 06 2012 20:57 GMT
#30
this is a great guide, thanks gunrun you are the man
ZisforZerg
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States224 Posts
February 06 2012 20:58 GMT
#31
TheGunRun is a bamf. Nuff said, thx mate ^^
"I'm too drunk, to taste that chicken."
bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
February 06 2012 20:58 GMT
#32
GunRun - quick question?

Do you ever sleep?

Once i get over my fear of failing in the public eye when it comes to games i'll give streaming a chance haha first to get a computer that won't explode though :p thanks for the tips!
In The Rear With The Gear .. *giggle* /////////// cobra-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!!!
lorcasTV
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada100 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-06 21:06:11
February 06 2012 20:59 GMT
#33
The streaming guru finally shares his knowledge!

Thanks a lot, will take look at home and see how I can improve ^_^
Polarexia
Profile Joined November 2010
United States383 Posts
February 06 2012 21:02 GMT
#34
Yaaaaaaaay thank you so much for this! I've been looking for a good guide for a while now.
Kismet349
Profile Joined December 2010
United States93 Posts
February 06 2012 21:05 GMT
#35
I caught Gunrun sleeping once. It was about 3 weeks ago at 7:17 AM on Saturday. He wasn't responding to Skype.

I did lots of checks to make sure that I was in fact experiencing reality.

-Eleine from TwitchTV
I bleed eSports.
HackBenjamin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada1094 Posts
February 06 2012 21:18 GMT
#36
Great guide Gunrun, Thanks alot
dnld12
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States324 Posts
February 06 2012 21:23 GMT
#37
ALL HAIL THE GUNRON
Infinite streaming wisdom
When life gives you Stalkers, Get blink.
Sephy90
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1785 Posts
February 06 2012 21:24 GMT
#38
Thanks for the guide!
~read it in his voice loool
"So I turned the lights off at night and practiced by myself"
BlazeTSR
Profile Joined November 2011
United States218 Posts
February 06 2012 21:30 GMT
#39
This is awesome! Real big help knowing the knowledge for the hardware recommended.
Fan of ........... Protoss: Hero, iNcontroL, Nony Zerg: CatZ and Sheth Terran: Demuslim
sebsejr
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
213 Posts
February 06 2012 21:41 GMT
#40
Someone show this to Stephano please! he is having lots of issues with his stream! <3

Sick writeup yo!
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