Question / Help Lagging while OBS Streaming on YT.

[vijay1684]

I have windows 10 Laptop with NVIDIA GPU 940MX DDR3 and core i5 7200U processor, I tried streaming with 1500 bitrate and x264 for both recording and streaming but it lags a lot. I tried changing to NVENC but then OBS deny to go LIVE online. Please help me with the best settings for streaming. I tried with OBS studio and streamlabs both.
Note: I have 10 MBS internet speed on WIFI. Speedtest shows 30 MBS download and 23 Upload Speed.

 

[Elixerin]

now i know im brand new here, but excuse me if i say your internet speed isnt proficient enough to stream in general UNLESS you run at a low resolution and 24/30 fps, with just 1000 total bitrate able to be used you would want to use say 750-800. with 480p/24 or 30 fps if its laggy. im assuming your only lagging cause of hardware and the quality you are trying to achieve being too high.

 

[vijay1684]

Sorry to say bro but by mistake I wrote 1 MBPS it's actually 10 MBPS and i am only trying to achieve 720p for recording and streaming both is it very high for me. (Speedtest shows 30 MBPS download and 23 Upload Speed. )

 

[Elixerin]

Sorry to say bro but by mistake I wrote 1 MBPS it's actually 10 MBPS and i am only trying to achieve 720p for recording and streaming both is it very high for me. (Speedtest shows 30 MBPS download and 23 Upload Speed. )

okay, slightly better. you are probably reading Mbps and not MBps. if so, you have a total of 2300 kbps or bitrate to use, with this i would recommend 720p30 at 2000 bitrate, as for the encoder use whatever you can handle, obviously x264 is better but if the cpu gets maxed out easily in game i would go for the NVENC option. ofcourse nvenc will be more pixelated as it uses way less resources combined with that low of a bitrate, this also depends on the game if its 1. a high action paced or 2. a simple card game. with 1 causing the most pixelation/noticable blurring, and 2. being the least noticable pixelation/blurring etc.

Hope this helped.

 

[koala]

The Nvidia 940MX doesn't support nvenc. Try to use Quicksync (QSV) as encoder. If this doesn't work and you can only choose x264 as encoder, make sure you use only 1 encoder session by using the "use stream encoder" setting for recording. Otherwise you will overload your CPU with the encoding sessions.

 

[Elixerin]

The Nvidia 940MX doesn't support nvenc. Try to use Quicksync (QSV) as encoder. If this doesn't work and you can only choose x264 as encoder, make sure you use only 1 encoder session by using the "use stream encoder" setting for recording. Otherwise you will overload your CPU with the encoding sessions.

i second this, sorry for the misinformation.

 

[vijay1684]

So you say 940MX doesn't support NVENC so sad i will try with other encoder you mentioned the will update thanks a lot for your reply.