Alright so since I can’t find a job I figured I would try streaming, and holy fuck was this a mistake but fuck it I’m already balls deep.
The problem I’m having is that every service that tests my stream says it’s fine but when I try to watch it to see if it is working right it is constantly freezing or lagging.
just a little side bar, are you using an intermediate services to stream to then send that to Twitch. If I understand some people that I know that do this full time, that is what they do using streamlabs and other services. I think Twitch only offers something similar if you are a partner. I could be wrong here as I have never done this except with a PS4 a hand full of times.
For whatever reason when I played with OBS recording the screen the game just felt off, like weird, idk why because res was same, fps was same, and ping was same. SO I turned off the stream
Until I figure out how to get it all working properly I won’t stream games, just client, but that should be fine to see if it lags or freezes for anyone else
You know there are bijillion things to streaming, yes?
CPU especially. What’s your hardware, cause if the system can’t keep up then no amount of internet speed will help you.
What you see as a streamer doesn’t necessarily represent what the viewers are seeing. When you play your framerate doesn’t matter to the viewer and when you view you give extra weight on your system to pull. You now have to run the game, encode the video, send it to twitch, call twitch back, get the video back, decode it, etc etc…
So either way you may not see what the viewers will see…
Second that. You might want to check out Epos Vox on Youtube. He does a good job in testing different settings for best quality and performance. Here’s his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/EposVox
I have had a play with single pc streaming on various platforms and 2 things are screaming at me when I see your pc partpicker.
1 you have a quad core cpu
2 you have a relatively old gpu
That said ive seen decent 720p streams on quad cores with similar gpus.
Things to set up/ tweak are bit rate and encoder. 6000 for 720p 30 is more than enough, 8000+ for 1080p
I think with encoding you need to be on nvenc as cpu doesn’t have the threads IMO
When watching the stream do it on a phone or tablet and not the pc running obs and the game
Difficult to say anything else without more info and seeing the stream live
sorry, not a streamer, but on YT you can choose what quality to send/transmit on?
like streaming in 720 or another lower level, in case that is a bottleneck
I’m new to this so idk exactly how the help stuff works on the twitch inspector so idk if this is specifically for my stream or if this was an example from someone else’s but heres what the help guide shows me when I click on one of my streams:
just loading minions can tank frame times to something silly if you have your quality maxed… but lets stick with it the way it is and see what it looks like now.
