My settings been like that for the longest but it hardly ever streams without constant pauses and hitches. I'm gonna stream later after I fix this 360 and I'll see if it's the same.This for my coli peoples... ima write this shyt OUT AGAINcarpel tunnel and all
only for the coli
Broadcast Settings:
Nothing too crazy in these settings right here, just enter your Twitch.TV key you can find in your Twitch TV Dashboard.
You can record from OBS as well, even though shadowplay is better, if you have a nice graphic overlay like I do and wanna use that, then thats when you use OBS.
Audio Settings:
You can adjust the mic boost here depending on the quality of your mic.
I will be honest, im no expert on audio settings. Everyone always compliments my mic and says it sounds crystal clear, which it does. But you can also hear me breathing from time to time and thats annoying. Not too sure if that has to do with because I have a really good mic and its not too far from my face or what. It never used to do that so it might have something to do with the Microphone Noise Gate which is a new setting in OBS.
Most professional streamers use a stand alone mic that can cost any where from $50-200+. Most common one is Blue Yeti which is $100 on Amazon
Encoding Options:
This is the most important tab for streaming. This is where all the quality of your stream comes from.
Dont touch the present options or the CBR options unless you have someone making you custom encoding options later on(aka never).
Twitch caps your bitrate at 3500 if you are not partnered. That is why if you make it higher than that, you'll see in red letters "your bitrate is not optimized for twitch, please reduce to 3500" because it doesnt matter if you have 10.0 mb/s upload speed, only 3.5 of that will be utilized by Twitch no matter what. When you are partnered you can raise it, but from im hearing from partners of twitch is they still keep it at 3500 bitrate regardless.
As far as the audio settings go, you want AT WORSE 96 bitrate. You are already at 3500, whats another 96? Dont have garbage audio. People wont watch if your audio or stream looks or sounds bad, thats just life.
Advanced Options:
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This coupled with the encoding option is what makes your stream look great as well. Dont touch anything here but the x264 Preset. Even then you might not want to touch that. But if you have slow upload speed but a fast processor, you can lower this preset down to a slower option at the expense of your CPU. Warning though, this will hit your CPU HARD so expect frame drops in game. Veryfast is standard. I would go down to Fast at worse if you dont have a dedicated streaming computer.
Dedicated streaming computers are becoming popular. They load the computer with a fast processor + RAM and run no applications on it but OBS. This way you can improve the quality of the stream by making the x264 preset SLOW, because its hitting a CPU that has nothing else running on it and only dedicated to streaming. They use a capture card to bridge the streaming computer to the gaming computer. This way you have a better looking stream while not sacrificing frames/performance on the game you are playing.
Video Options:
It took me DAYS and DAYS to find out how to get my quality to look top notch like the top streamers. Only because theirs so much misinformation out there if you google it.
Long story short:
First person shooters and fast pace games: 720P 60 FPS
MMOS, RPGS and MOBAS: 1080P 30 FPS
I wrote out a very long and detailed reason why for the frames + resolution but thecoli said fukk your post... and my carpel tunnel acting up so maybe ill write it out later.. just know, use those settings for those types of games.
its no where near as good as the post I made earlier butwith carpel tunnel going crazy right now I just wanted to get this post over with
Specs: FX 4100 @ 4.0GHZ, 8GB DDR3 ram, Radeon HD 2GB 7870
