

But his streams look amazing even at 720p. You'll never achieve perfect quality but don't compare yourself to others and don't repeat their mistakes.Įposvox is my go to OBS guru, so his videos where the first set I watched and used. Aside from Eposvox, most popular streamers I've watched have pretty terrible to average image quality on their streams while new streamers seem to notice every single flaw on their own streams. I noticed a lot of topics and friends of mine looking at popular streamers and commenting they look amazingly detailed through their rose-coloured glasses. I own an overclocked Ryzen 1700 that can cope with these settings so your Ryzen 3700x, assuming it's paired with fast RAM set at their rated speeds instead of default, should breeze though these. Tune set to "None", "Animation" (a bit less detailed but less blocky) or "Film" (retain grain and detail, potentially blockiest) are also personal preference, though the latter 2 only really help if bitrate starved, I found ĥ) Disable all forms of motion blur or any other blurring effects in your ingame settings. Not sure if youtube allows for higher bitrate though ģ) You can try adding "threads=10" to x264 options, as it leaves CPU threads available for other software.

Ģ) Encoder: "x264", CPU preset: "Fast" or "Medium", Profile: "High", 8000kbps, for starters.
#BEST OBS STUDIO STREAM SETTINGS 720P#
Tried and tested myself and there were no noticeable changes in anything.Ĩ000kbps is not nearly enough to stream high quality medium to high motion games at 1080p and 60FPS, which is why so many streamers downscale to or to using default presets that have been tried and tested over the years to find the best ratio of quality vs CPU encoding needs.ġ) 720p or 900p and bicubic/lanzcos downscale filter.

Screen Shots: Don't mind the Placebo preset as the x264 options completely ignore any preset I select. Level=4.2 no-cabac=1 ref=2 bframes=1 b-adapt=1 direct=auto deblock=-3:2 me=uhm merange=20 subme=6 no-mbtree=1 trellis=0 weightp=1 deadzone-intra=6 deadzone-inter=18 rc-lookahead=0 threads=6 lookahead_threads=0 sliced_threads=0 **** The one I use to Stream action type games **** Trying to get good 1080p 60fps stream qualityĨx8dct=1 aq-mode=2 bframes=1 chroma-qp-offset=2 colormatrix=smpte170m deblock=0:0 direct=auto ipratio=1.41 keyint=240 level=3.1 me=uhm merange=16 min-keyint=auto mixed-refs=1 no-mbtree=0 partitions=i4x4,p8x8,b8x8 psy-rd=0.5:0.0 ratetol=10 rc-lookahead=30 ref=1 scenecut=40 subme=7 threads=0 trellis=2 weightb=1 weightp=2 What can I do to improve my stream quality and what are the others doing that I am not? I understand that the more there is to encode and compress the worse the quality of the video/stream will be. That's while playing a game like "Metro Exodus". It stays somewhere between 20-50% depending on what x264 options I use. The video doesn't even look 60fps and my CPU usage is nowhere near 100%. I had to resort to using custom x264 settings, which I will provide down below, to stream a somewhat decent looking stream. Am I missing something? I also can't stream using the presets because my CPU usage skyrockets to 70% just by moving around in-game. I even did what most Fortnite streamers do and set my output resolution to 900p but the quality is nowhere near as crisp as theirs. I tried using the recommended x264 presets veryfast, faster, fast, medium, and even slow with 6000-8000 kb. Hello there! I'm new to the forums so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong section.įor the past week or so I have been trying to get good quality on my stream, but I seem to be missing something because the quality isn't there.
