Going through with it
Over the week or so since posting my efforts to begin streaming, I have been able to stream twice in which were my test streams for the most part. I am still scared to get myself out there and stream on my own, which limits my time to play and broadcast but I'm content. I get to chill out with my friends and play some games and maybe make some money off of it, who knows.
First stream problems
As I had explained in my first post, OBS Streamlabs gave me an option to automatically adjust my settings from my upload restriction so I used them. Unfortunately those settings didn't work too well for online games so the stream had to be restarted a couple times and some problems still came up. My first issue began with my stream skipping between 35-45% of my frames constantly. I was luckily able to correct that with reducing my bitrate a little bit but the video was still quite choppy for my liking.
Stick through it
After my third time restarting the stream, I decided to just kind of stick through the other problems I was having. The stream wasn't cutting out as much as before and I didn't want to bother the imaginary viewers haha. Furthermore, I also thought that I knew what to do next so I'll just do it after stream and everything will be set good for the next stream. (Spoiler: I got it perfect!)
Honestly, the settings probably would've been fine as they were but I am glad I went in to fix it. Rocket League, the game I was playing, was giving me pretty decent spikes which made it hard to get out of my zone and just let go and try to be entertaining.
Round 2
I'd say round 2 mostly went much smoother than the first, I got my settings pinned down and felt confident enough to put it as my discord tag and post on twitter about it. We played Rocket League again but I hope to play some other games. I don't know if my computer can handle warzone and streaming but I'll definitely be streaming toxic/funny games of Rainbow Six Siege and some Apex legends. Basically any game I can get my hands on and that might be entertaining for people to watch me play.
My OBS Settings If You Are In The Same Predicament As Me | ~10 Mbps Upload
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I know my settings are lackluster and are not going to be the best viewing experience, but I hope to improve them when I can afford better internet. As much as I want to do 60FPS output, I don't think my upload speed can handle that, and 30 is way better if it is stable compared to 60 but drops here and there. My brother in law had told me to do 720P with some compression, so that's exactly what I had done with some extras. Although it hurts me deeply, I lowered my audio bitrate as any little bit of extra upload I can get, I'll take.
Happy Endings
I am extremely pleased with myself. Although it's going to be a rough start, I'm going to do everything I can to keep this going and see if I have what it takes. The overlays I made look amazing, specifically the game overlay. Some of my friends have had issues with white, jagged edges on the inside of their overlays, along with looking low-res. After looking on my stream, mine look sleek and cool with no issues at all which is exciting! The lag and skipped frames are minimal and hopefully it stays that way. Now I just have to get a twitter following so I can tweet that I'm live and people see it excluding the guys playing with me 😂. I know that problem though, I just need to use more hashtags and actually use my twitter for once.
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But anyway, that's all for this post. Just wanted to talk about what's going on in my head and hopefully publicly talking about it will keep me motivated to not give up.
Thank you all for reading...
Until next time.