Streaming

This page describes recommended settings for Streaming.

If you have an Ampere card like the 40-series, use AV1. For 10-series or more, use NVENC/HEVC.
With a 4th generation cpu you should have no issues.

OBS settings

• Output > Video Encoder: AV1/HEVC/H264 ; Rate Control: CBR ; Bitrate: YT/Twitch limit ; Keyframe interval: 1s ; Preset: P7 ; Tuning: High Quality ; Multipass Mode: Two Passes (Full Resolution) ; Profile: Main ; Look-ahead: off ; Psycho Visual Tuning: on ; GPU: 0 ; Max B-frames: 0

• Video > 60 fps

• Advanced > Video > Color Format: NV12 ; Color Space: sRGB ; Color Range: Full

• Sources > Game Capture > Properties: Limit capture framerate

ezQuake settings

• vid_software_palette 1 (Is necessary to keep the correct gamma and details of textures on the stream but it will reduce performance.
  If you need to disable it to get stable fps for play+stream , add a color correction filter in OBS with gamma 0.5)

• gl_gamma 0.7 (If the stream is still too dark with software_palette 1, add OBS gamma 0.2)

YouTube

YT transcodes your videos if they are not 1440p.
You can avoid this by creating a new streaming key and manually select 1440p and activate 60 fps.
Stream at 1080p and pick 1440p to watch it without degraded quality.
Set a bitrate of 10000 in OBS for good quality. If you have enough bandwidth, set 30000 for perfect quality.

YT-settings-1440p-trick

Twitch

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Links

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