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Of course then you would say 'You didn't even say what your connection is or anything about your system.'Īny way, tell me how to find the framerate and I'll go check. What if I would have just told you the framerate and resolution and nothing else. My post tells you literally nothing? How about all of the information about my connection and system specs? I figured you could look at that and come up with a rough idea of what kind of Xsplit settings I should be able to stream with. You just resize the window freely by dragging the border. When it's in windowed mode, it doesn't let you choose a resolution. The actual game window might be a little larger when I am playing FEAR 3. Either Xsplit doesn't share that information, or I was too distracted by watching the bitrate to notice.Īs far as resolution, I'm streaming through Xsplit at 1280x720. Well I don't know what the framerate is that I'm streaming at. I think the problem is that AMD CPUs simply doesn't handle encoding as well as Intel CPUs. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to run a good, smooth, high quality stream. Memory: 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800H (800MHz) G.Skill Ripjaws This tells me it's something quality-related, but why? My connection and computer specs should be more than enough to handle pushing the data. That one seems to run fine without the lag spikes. One is a severely low quality stream for my friends with painfully slow connections. I have two channels I have started dual-casting to. No matter what I do, I get those freezes. I've tried low buffers, high buffers, low/high max bitrates. I just upgraded to a 25 mbps upstream and I'm getting quite frustrated at all of this. I have tried everything I can think of short of dropping the quality of the stream below an acceptable level.

I'm trying to use Xsplit and I'm getting those lag spikes where every few seconds the stream freezes momentarily and then continues. (Courtesy aramonkg)īut from experience I can tell that setting it too high causes some intermittent freezes in my stream.Ī lower setting will create more artifacts and the effect that background will take longer to focus.įrom what I have seen other people doing and what works for me I recommend setting it to 1/4 of VBV Max Bitrate. The key sentence in there is 'A frame must be fully downloaded into the VBV buffer before it can be decoded' and explains why lower values of the VBV buffer reduce lag spikes. If possible keep an eye on the bitrate when you're streaming it's shown in the Xsplit's titlebar.

Setting it to low will produce lagspikes. I haven't seen it go above 3000k on my stream, though. explosions.Īs far as I can tell it just sets the maximum bitrate and should be set to something close to your maximum upload speed. Most important factor deciding quality second to resolution, especially when there are many details changing fast, eg. It doesn't affect overall quality (technically as h.264 uses destructive compression, slower may create some artifacts) Roughly speaking, this tells Xsplit how hard it should try to compress the video. Here is a little guide on optimising Xsplit based on my experience so far:

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