Streaming Question

greenpee

<div class="IPBDescription">because im a network noob</div>Okay so I've got my streaming channel for comp games running (www.twitch.tv/CakesCasts) and I can get fantastic quality for competitive casts and when I command I can stream pretty well. But as soon as I try to play marine or skulk it all goes to ######. It pixelates the entire time and it's quite annoying. I tried messing around with the settings but I clearly have no idea what I'm doing. I use OBS (v0.448a) with DXTORY (2.0.119) and like I said it works beautifully on comp casting. I know I need to turn some settings down to stream my awful marine/skulk play but I'm not quite sure what.

My specs:
Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz
8gb RAM
Geforce GTX 470 (all drivers current)


OBS settings:
Quality - 10 (shifting this doesn't seem to change much?)
Max Bitrate - 2000 kb/s
Buffer Size - 3000 kb/s
FPS - 25
under Advanced -> Video -> x264 CPU Preset: faster
Advanced -> Network -> checked Use Send Buffer Size (default on): 1460

DXTORY settings:
FPS - 25
the rest is just default as far as i know, except keybinds and stuff


These are some of the bad streams: (it says 60fps but it's not, it's at 25, never changed it)
<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344492211" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344492211</a>
<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344493492" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344493492</a>
<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344494577" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344494577</a>
<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344421152" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/344421152</a>

Compared to the comp play cast:
<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/343811554" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/cakescasts/b/343811554</a>

Any suggestions? I'll provide more information if needed.


edit: speed test - <img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/2344833112.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

Volcano

pov streaming is more demanding than top down much less stuff to render faster gameplay. So for pov games drop the resolution down to something else and for casting you can keep it at 720

Kouji_San

That rig should capable to stream at those settings, that is when downsizing the stream res to 1280x720. I play at 1600x900 in a window and use the overlay to resize it to 720p on an overclocked i5 2500k (4.2Ghz). I use the very fast setting as I don't really see a difference between faster and very fast in terms of quality, but I do see a difference in FPS. I also use FFSplit btw, but that one is still work in progress (freeware).

It performs much better then Xplit and as of last week has canvas stuff (scenes). however it is still missing one vital thing for casting. A stream delay, which is on their to do list. But for casual FPS gameplay (pubbing), I'd say give it a try :)


Your i7 is a bit low on the raw GHz speed though and as Volcano said NS2 eats CPU's for breakfast. Especially when they are near/around the 3.0Ghz range...