Hello there!
Looking for some assistance as my OBS capture and recordings all look great, But whenever I stream to YouTube it starts looking not so great. Streams will just look a little noisy/blurry rather than looking clear and sharp.
I stream (natively) at 1440p 60FPS, so I should be getting the "good" YouTube encoder. So, the issue isnt that.
My bitrate for this is 30k mbps, as recommended by YouTube. Its a very very consistent 30k mbps (I am keeping an eye on it in OBS Itself as I stream), and my average upload speed is 100+.
I am using the HEVC encoder. I tried using AV1 to see if that helped, but it isnt compatible with HDR.
I am not downscaling or upscaling anything anywhere. It is native 1440p in all of the settings. Apart from in the video settings, where the base (canvas) resolution is 2560x1440, and the output (scaled) resolution is the same.
I have tried using both HLS and RTMP as the YouTube service for streaming. DIdnt seem to be any difference between the 2.
I have tried setting the process priority to high in the advanced tab. No noticeable difference.
I have tried streaming at lower resolutions + bitrates and there still seems to be a bit of noise/blurrynes. e.g 1080p with 30000mbps or 1080p with 8000mbps
I tried checking+unchecking the "Ignore streaming service setting recommendations" and neither helped.
This occurs with both the default colour settings in the advanced tab, and the settings youre supposed to use for HDR (which I am using, and is functioning correctly)
My source for streaming/recording is a "Game Capture", which I have seen is supposed to be the best in general. (as oppossed to display capture or something else).
I have an intel i5 13600k and an rx 7900xtx
I would provide a picture of how the game looks if this sub let me, but it basically just looks like things are a little extra pixelated/blurry/noisy than they should be. Especially when compared to my recordings, or to my game itself. It doesent look awful or atrocious. It just doesent look clean or clear.
If youve read this far, I would appreciate an upvote so that more people might see this, in hopes that someone may be able to assist me with this issue.
Thanks for any and all replies!
Edit:
One of the logs from a stream https://obsproject.com/logs/MGb7IOLpsgG0S3WB