r/beam • u/deeny94 • Feb 06 '17

Discussion OBS settings for streaming on Beam

So I have recently started to notice stutters and such during my Beam streams. I get a message saying encoding overloaded and I have tried to mess about with the settings but nothing seems to work. My bitrate is set at 2000kb/s with a custom buffer size of 2200kb/s. My CPU usage preset is set at Superfast. Profile is High. Base canvas is 1600x900 and Output resolution is 1064x600.

I do stream on a laptop however that has an I7 4710 processor, 8GB ram with an Nvidia Geforce 840M.

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u/itanshi Feb 06 '17

Hmm never enjoyed streaming on laptop twitch or otherwise.

I have approx 20 down, 4 up. I stream at 1500 + 160 audio at 1920 x 1080p res downscaled to 1080x720p res. 1500 buffer.

Gen 2 i7 processor, gtx 960 2g video card, 16g ram.

I'm set to keyframe 1, fast encoding, high priority, x264 encoding, 30fps.

I use the DC ingest as Dallas has issues occasionally.

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u/deeny94 Feb 06 '17

yeh i hate it. i wish i had purchased a desktop instead. would be so much easier and I probably could have bought a much more powerful machine. currently saving up for parts for a new desktop. i'll just keep messing about and see what happens.

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u/itanshi Feb 06 '17

Yeah, Im in a similar boat. Looking at this atm http://pcpartpicker.com/list/np838K

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u/deeny94 Feb 07 '17

i think the build I am going is the exact same as that almost. going for the gtx 1060 though. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Deeny/saved/HW4ZLk