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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34507 Posts
January 23 2013 16:23 GMT
#1041
On January 24 2013 01:04 AznBoy00 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2013 00:17 Slakkoo wrote:
On January 22 2013 06:22 Slakkoo wrote:
Got some problems with my OBS, when I use the 32bits it tells me I need 64 for some games and when I use 64 it says I need 32, how come?



Still havent recieved any answer :/ Also what settings should I use?


30 down, 10 up.

Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67 GHz (4 cpus) ~ 2.7GHz

ATI Radeon HD 5700 series

8 gig ram


http://obsproject.com/estimator

This is new and very useful, thanks!
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Slakkoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Sweden1119 Posts
January 23 2013 17:50 GMT
#1042
I used the estimator but my stream still lags
AznBoy00
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada166 Posts
January 23 2013 19:12 GMT
#1043
On January 24 2013 02:50 Slakkoo wrote:
I used the estimator but my stream still lags


It mentions that if it lags, lower the quality and bitrate
My Life For Protoss =) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Astrick
Profile Joined August 2012
Canada19 Posts
January 23 2013 19:59 GMT
#1044
I have a I7 2600K OC'D 4.3GHZ and a GTX 580.
Upload speed is 2.85. What settings should I use and could I stream at 720P/60FPS?
EZ
SC_RainbowDash
Profile Joined October 2011
Denmark33 Posts
January 23 2013 20:04 GMT
#1045
On January 24 2013 04:59 DarkEX wrote:
I have a I7 2600K OC'D 4.3GHZ and a GTX 580.
Upload speed is 2.85. What settings should I use and could I stream at 720P/60FPS?


how about you just try and see how it goes?
A bacon a day keeps the pigs away
Kaladin
Profile Joined January 2011
United States88 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-24 14:51:14
January 24 2013 14:43 GMT
#1046
I wouldn't really trust the estimator or really what anyone says about the settings (no offense intended to the technically knowledgeable!). You might be able to squeeze out a lot more than you think. I have a Phenom II x4 965 @ 3.9ghz and I can stream sc2 at 720p 30fps default encoding rate (superfast?) while maintaining 60fps (50-60 late game) in game at 1080p high settings. You just gotta mess around with the settings . The estimator says Phenom II is in the same category as Core 2 Duo and that I should stream at 480p 25 fps xD

Edit: I can also stream CS:GO w/ max settings in game, 4x MSAA. 100fps in game. 720p/30fps stream, could probably go higher :D. Battlefield 3, High settings w/ terrain and mesh on ultra and 2x AA. 50fps in game while streaming 720p/30fps. OBS is an amazing program. You really just gotta experiment. With shooters it has almost 0 impact on the framerate in game, I think because those games are not very cpu dependent, whereas RTS is a very cpu dependent genre.

GPU: 560gtx
Memory: 4GB 1600mhz Kingston HyperX
Me all in. Him drone drone drone. Me win. -MC
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
January 24 2013 15:00 GMT
#1047
With shooters it has almost 0 impact on the framerate in game


Correlation =/= Causation, there could be a trend but it's likely to be coincidence (:

I think pretty much anyone will agree a PhenomIIx4 especially overclocked is not near the same category as a core2duo though.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Kaladin
Profile Joined January 2011
United States88 Posts
January 24 2013 15:03 GMT
#1048
On January 25 2013 00:00 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
With shooters it has almost 0 impact on the framerate in game


Correlation =/= Causation, there could be a trend but it's likely to be coincidence (:

I think pretty much anyone will agree a PhenomIIx4 especially overclocked is not near the same category as a core2duo though.


Of course . I just know that most games are a lot more GPU intensive rather than cpu intensive like sc2, so that helps i'm sure
Me all in. Him drone drone drone. Me win. -MC
MistSC2
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden583 Posts
January 24 2013 15:26 GMT
#1049
cant find my stream key T.T otherwise thanks alot for this!
Maru, TY, Clem <3
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 15:47 GMT
#1050
On January 25 2013 00:26 prOxySC2 wrote:
cant find my stream key T.T otherwise thanks alot for this!


www.twitch.tv/broadcast .. when logged in, then there's a bottom that says: Show Key
click that :D
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 15:58 GMT
#1051
Okay, Ive been through all 53 of these pages for tips and tricks and ive been messing around with the setup.

PC specs
+ Show Spoiler +

Intel i5 2500k SB @ 4.2ghz
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3x
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3
100/10mb connection


For Obvious reasons then my Pc cant do 1080p @ 60/45 fps and still be able to play APB.. rather intensive game for the pc to handle but a very nice test game.

but heres my first try: http://da.twitch.tv/swiftyxnap/c/1862731
With the following settings:
+ Show Spoiler +
Quality 10
3500/3500
AAC 128
Base Res: 1920x1080
Res downscale: None
Fps 30
MultiThread Opt: On - Priority normal
x264 preset: veryfast
Rest Default


Besides ingame fps dropping by a somewhat expected amount since that game is so ridiciously poorly optimized (people that has played APB knows what im talking about).. then it seems to run okay, but there is a lot of pixilation, might be just me but judge for your self.

So the Question: how can i reduce pixilation ? .. and is there other settings that i would want to change for a nicer looking stream .

Feel free to call my settings retarded :p .. im quite new to this program .
but none the less allready like it alot more than my old Xsplit / dxtory setup :D

/MrWesth
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
January 24 2013 16:05 GMT
#1052
^You cant, really. Close to CPU and to bitrate limits, can maybe drop to Faster but nothing else to change. You hit bullseye with pretty much all settings
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 16:20 GMT
#1053
^ Wouldnt Faster stress my cpu even more or im i completly wrong ? ..
will i get a "cleaner" stream if i swap down to 720p@60fps ? .. since that would leave abit more Bitrate for each frame ?

z0rz
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States350 Posts
January 24 2013 16:27 GMT
#1054
On January 24 2013 23:43 Kaladin wrote:
I wouldn't really trust the estimator or really what anyone says about the settings (no offense intended to the technically knowledgeable!). You might be able to squeeze out a lot more than you think. I have a Phenom II x4 965 @ 3.9ghz and I can stream sc2 at 720p 30fps default encoding rate (superfast?) while maintaining 60fps (50-60 late game) in game at 1080p high settings. You just gotta mess around with the settings . The estimator says Phenom II is in the same category as Core 2 Duo and that I should stream at 480p 25 fps xD

Edit: I can also stream CS:GO w/ max settings in game, 4x MSAA. 100fps in game. 720p/30fps stream, could probably go higher :D. Battlefield 3, High settings w/ terrain and mesh on ultra and 2x AA. 50fps in game while streaming 720p/30fps. OBS is an amazing program. You really just gotta experiment. With shooters it has almost 0 impact on the framerate in game, I think because those games are not very cpu dependent, whereas RTS is a very cpu dependent genre.

GPU: 560gtx
Memory: 4GB 1600mhz Kingston HyperX

It's called an "estimator" for a reason; its purpose is to give you a starting point so that you can optimize the settings yourself. There are simply too many variables to create a "one size fits all" chart for optimal settings for every possible configuration.

Example: my speedtest results show 3.5Mbps upload, so the OBS estimator suggests 3100/3100 bitrate/buffer. The reality is I'm stuck with ~2000/2000 because Comcast's "PowerBoost" is disabled after 10MB of uploading.

In my case I'd plug in 3100 bitrate and drop frames like crazy, then incrementally lower my bitrate until I got to ~2000 and stopped dropping frames. You should expect to have to tinker and experiment a bit with software like this.

And to anyone asking "Can my PC handle streaming?" like the example above on this page (sorry, not trying to call you out): try it and post your results so someone else with a similar system can compare!

You have nothing to lose by simply trying and experimenting (unless you have a serious lack in CPU cooling and the fail-safes don't kick in. But even if this were the case, there's no way for the experts to know this so you'd still be encouraged to try to stream anyway ). Hell, you might even learn something in the process!
twitch.tv/fartymcbutt
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
January 24 2013 16:31 GMT
#1055
On January 25 2013 01:20 MrWesth wrote:
^ Wouldnt Faster stress my cpu even more or im i completly wrong ? ..
will i get a "cleaner" stream if i swap down to 720p@60fps ? .. since that would leave abit more Bitrate for each frame ?



It would stress CPU more but give slightly more encoding efficiency, you are close to CPU limits so depending on the game you might not even have room to do it, its not much of a gain.

You can experiment with lower resolutions and different framerates to see how it looks, your current settings should be great for most games but looks like you would need a lot higher bitrates at the same resolution to make that game look as good as a lot of others in terms of pixelation etc
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 16:38 GMT
#1056
^ Was kinda what i thought :p .. another question, how big effect does the Quality setting have. just ran over the Setting Estimater on obs home page, and it comes out with:

+ Show Spoiler +
CPU Advice

Set FPS to 30
Consider setting FPS to 60 if you have spare CPU power for improved quality

Game Advice

Set quality to 6 or 7
Lowering your quality will improve areas of fast motion
Use game capture if possible for maximum performance.
Use window capture with Aero enabled if game capture is unavailable.

Network Advice

Your upload speed is sufficient for 720p / 1080p
Recommended max bitrate: 4000
Recommended buffer size: 4000


If you look at the Game part it states that lowering the Quality will help areas of fast motion ? .. in which way? .. and whats the drawback or how big is the drawback of lowering ? ..

i know much just comes down to testing but if you have any knowledge around this it would be really nice to hear :D

Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
January 24 2013 16:43 GMT
#1057
Lower "Quality" will hold back on bitrate and keep the average quality of your output lower, but make it more consistent, instead of using more bits on a scene that already looks ok and then not having enough to make some other frames look very good
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 16:45 GMT
#1058
^ So this could help abit with the Pixelation but will reduce the overall quality abit ? .
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
January 24 2013 16:48 GMT
#1059
Maybe, but i think this game wont look good at a high resolution regardless of settings with a ~3.5k bitrate limit
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
MrWesth
Profile Joined January 2013
8 Posts
January 24 2013 16:51 GMT
#1060
you might be right, ill try to mess around abit more and then ill do a stream test of another game just to compare
thanks for the quick reply tho ..

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