Ultimate Twitch OBS Settings for Streaming!

What’s going on guys my name is jack buzzer  and i’m going to be your tech support for   the day i’m going to be giving you a basic  beginner’s guide to encoding for streaming   and recording so let’s get straight into it okay  but first we need to identify what hardware your  

Pc has because a lot of people simply aren’t sure  what is in their computer so what you’re going to   want to do is open up task manager and head over  to the performance tab in this tab you’re going  

To be able to see your cpu and your gpu as well  as the name of it how many calls it has and how   many threads it has this is going to be super  helpful when deciding if you have an nvidia gpu  

Or an amd gpu and if your cpu is strong enough to  handle x264 encoding i definitely recommend you do   test these settings for yourself i personally  do not own an intel quick sync compatible cpu  

Nor do i own an amd graphics card so i’m not  very well versed on these parts however i do   always recommend getting an nvidia card because  they are far better for content creation thanks   to their nvinc encoder if you are on windows  10 you want to make sure that obs is running as  

Admin so what you want to do is type obs into your  search bar open the file location and right click   it once you’ve done that go down to the bottom and  click properties head over to the compatibility   options and simply tick run as administrator  this will ensure that obs runs as admin every  

Single time so first what you’re going to want to  do is head over to the settings tab head to video   and you’re going to see these four basic settings  the base canvas resolution should automatically be   set to your monitor’s base resolution it should  always be the case set it to 1920×1080 if you  

Have a 1080p monitor which most people do unless  you have purchased a higher resolution monitor   the output scaled resolution is the resolution  that twitch will receive i do not recommend using   1080p just because twitch do limit their bitrate  to 6000 kilobits per second i do recommend any  

Of these resolutions on the screen right now from  1664 by 936 being the highest and 720p being the   lowest however if you do have a lower npc and you  have to 960 by 540 is absolutely okay next we have  

The downscale filter where you do have four  options bilinear if you are not scaling or have   a low end pc it is the fastest but it can be quite  blurry area which is a weighted sum this is more  

For retro games i don’t recommend using this one  bicubic will be fine for most people and lengthos   is what you use if you have a higher end pc next  we have the fps values everyone knows what fps is  

But when you are streaming 60 is pretty much the  absolute maximum if you can’t stream at 60 head   down to 48 and if you do have a lower end pc 30  is still absolutely fine so once we have done the  

Video settings we’re going to head to the output  settings these settings are for an nvidia card if   you have an amd card i will put a timestamp for  other types of encoders just on the screen now

So if you do have an nvidia card you want to make  sure advanced is set as the output mode this will   just give you these settings otherwise  you’re going to be stuck with just this  

So once advance is ticked you want to make sure  the encoder is set to nvinc h264 new once you’ve   done that make sure the rate control is cbr  and bitrate if your internet can handle at  

6000 the easiest thing to do is head over to the  speedtest.net and run a speed test or just run   it on google and select what will work for you one  thousand kilobits is one megabit keyframe interval  

The easiest thing to do if you don’t know what  you’re doing is just to set to zero and let obs   handle it the preset if you have a gtx card set  it to quality unless your card is a 1650 super  

Or higher if you have that chuck it on max quality  same if you have an rtx card because they have the   new encoder make sure both lookahead and psycho  visual tuning are ticked leave the gpu on zero  

Unless you have a laptop that has two gpus then  set it to one if you have to but i do recommend   making sure you test this to make sure you are  correct maximum b frame set to two for high action  

Packed games if you’re playing something like  sims just chuck it on four for recording on nvinc   you can actually use the exact same settings only  changing two things you can change cbr to cqp and  

Use a value of 16 or you can keep cbi and change  the bit rate between 20 000 or 60 000 anything   higher and you start to get diminishing results  at the expense of a whole lot of storage space

Now if you do have a bit of a beefy cpu and an  amd gpu which means you don’t have access to   nvidia’s n bank click on x264 x264 uses a cpu to  encode it’s going to generate a lot of heat and  

A lot of stress on your cpu but it will look much  nicer than amd’s encoder again the bitrate set to   whatever you can handle on your internet  speed again i’m just going to set it to   6000 because i know my internet can handle  it reset anywhere between fast or medium  

Is totally fine slow and anything above  is completely degrading results and just   is not worth it especially on twitch so i’m gonna  set it to medium because i do have a beefy cpu   and that’ll be fine leave the profile and tune  on none and no extra options if you do have  

A weaker cpu you can definitely go too fast  faster or very fast i don’t recommend going   any lower than very fast because this will just  look awful and will pretty much be unwatchable now unfortunately i’ve never actually used  intel quick sync but based on my research the  

Easiest options to do are target usage as very  slow profile is high rate control as cbr again   whatever your internet can handle  latency is normal and b frames again   if you’re playing a fast game set is two if  you’re playing a slower pace game set as four

Amd i also do not have an encoding screen however  most of their options aren’t going to help you   very much when streaming so the easiest thing  to do is make sure the rate control options mode  

Is on constant bit rate and set it to 6 000.  guys i hope this was helpful if it did please   leave a like and really to appreciate it make  sure you subscribe i do have other obs tutorials  

That might help you out but yeah guys thank you  for watching and i hope to see you next time