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**Setting Up Your PC for Smooth Streaming: A Step-by-Step Guide**

If you're looking to stream your gaming sessions online, you need a properly set up PC. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of configuring your PC for smooth streaming using x264 encoding.

**Choosing the Right Settings**

First, let's talk about the settings. You want to set your rate control to CBR (Constant Bit Rate). The constant bit rate we want to use is [insert bit rate here]. I've explained this before in a video for NVM settings, so if you want to see more information on this topic, check out that video.

Next, you'll need to set the keyframe interval to 2. Then, set the CPU usage preset to High and leave the tune setting at None. Don't enter anything else yet.

**Understanding CPU Usage**

The next step is crucial for smooth streaming. You want to set the CPU usage preset to [insert preset level here]. By default, this setting is very fast, which is good for most people's PCs. However, if your PC is not powerful enough, you may need to adjust this setting.

To test your CPU usage, open Performance Monitor and look at the graph of CPU usage. You want to see a stable reading around 70-80% - that means your PC is working hard to play your game and stream it online.

**Adjusting CPU Usage**

If your CPU usage was stuck at 100% for an extended period, you know the setting was too high. In this case, you'll need to lower it. Start by adjusting the preset level from Very Fast to Faster or even Fast. This will give your PC more breathing room and prevent it from overheating.

**Streaming Settings**

Now that we've adjusted our CPU usage settings, let's move on to the stream tab. Here, you can link your streaming service account. For Twitch, this is a straightforward process - just select "Twitch" and connect your account.

When you click Start Streaming, you'll go live on your Twitch channel. Other platforms like YouTube and Facebook require more setup, including getting your stream key and implementing it in the online interface.

**Tips and Tricks**

Remember to test your streaming settings regularly to ensure they're working smoothly for your PC. Don't be afraid to experiment with different preset levels to find the perfect balance for your hardware.

I hope this guide has been helpful in setting up your PC for smooth streaming. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey welcome back to the channel today we are going over all the settings in obs studio and i'm going to show you how to stream in 1080p 60fps and i'm also going to show you some settings that will make it easier to manage your stream i'm in a temporary setup right now because i'm making a new studio i'm gonna make a whole video about that probably a few videos but for now i need to film three videos right here so yeah don't mind a pretty boring background the first thing i want to show you is that right here you see profile and just like with the scene collections maybe you've seen this already when you go to another scene collection as you see things changed right here this is for your graphics but right here the profile this is for your settings as you see i'm on untitled right now when i click on this you see the aspect ratio just changed so if you make a new profile right here for example 1080p 60fps that way you can just make a bunch of profiles for different types of settings and then you can set up different things so right here they ask us to auto configure we're not going to do that so let's click on cancel and now let's go to the settings and right now we have a completely new profile i'm gonna set up all these steps together with you so just follow through this video i know that it will be a pretty long video but i've made a bunch of these in the past the settings videos every year i make one and people always comment that it's very clear and that they understand all the settings after watching the video and i'm not saying this to breck not at all i'm just saying if you want to get a clear understanding of what all these settings do if you want to be able to change them yourself and watching this entire video is a pretty good idea you're probably gonna stream for a long time so just take the time to understand these settings and yeah let's start after a quick message from our sponsor onto tv is a big graphic swap shop for streamers i'm on their website right now and as you see right here you can see stream designs and when you click on this button right here you can see all of their complete packages and for example this one is my favorite let's click on it you can see a preview video right here on the top but when you scroll to the bottom this is the best part you can just click on these buttons and now you can see how the alert will look on your stream or for example you can go to the animated talking banner that's how it will look and then if you want to see the transition you just click on it this is an amazing preview tool you can go to their website you can check out all their packages they are all animated they are high quality and if you use my code tv and i check out you will get 50 of your price i will add the link to their website in my description until tv check them out okay let's go to the settings and now let's go over all the important things right here in the general tab there are a few things you want to check out so first of all here the theme you can change this from the dark team to something else i'm not gonna do it that's your choice but then here this is really important in my opinion show confirmation dialogue when starting streams and then when stopping streams otherwise you can accidentally click on start streaming instead of start recording stuff like that and of course you don't want to start streaming by accident so just enable this and then whenever you click on start streaming you will need to click on ok before you actually go live then another useful thing is here automatically record when streaming when you want to record all your streams and you set up the recording settings then you can enable this and whenever you start your stream you will also record by default i'm going to disable this right now and that's everything you want to set up right here the other things aren't that important so then the next thing i want to show you is the advanced step you want to set your process priority to height and here you see stream delay and this can be handy for example again stream snipers stuff like that if you want to have a delay in your stream you just enable here you choose the amount of seconds and then your stream will have a 20 second delay i'm gonna disable this right now we don't need this let's go to the hotkey step and this is really interesting many people skip this step and it's so so useful for example right here you see on the bottom left i have scene and then i have scene two but here in scene two you see switch to scene and then you can set a keybind for that so let's set ak bind click on ok and as you see when i click on that keyboard right now i will go to this scene and this is so useful because when you're in game and you want to switch your scenes you don't want to all tap out of it and then go to obs change your scene go back so if you don't have a stream deck to switch your scenes then you can just go to the hotkeys tab and then add some hot keys to switch your scenes and you can read through this to see if anything is useful right here for example muting your microphone stuff like that muting a different audio source you can do a lot of things with this so just go over the hotkeys and you will probably find some things that are really handy for you now next i want to go to the audio tab and right here you want to select your audio devices so desktop audio this will be set to default and when you right click on your sound right here and you go to sound settings right here you see choose your output device this is the default device so this device right here is as you see my headphones what does this mean all the sounds that are being sent to my headphone will also be sent right here to this source in obs so for example if you go to your advanced audio settings and then right here you can send discord to something else let's say to my screen right here so right now the discord sound is going to this audio source it's not going to the default one which is my headphones so because of that when you're importing your headphones right here in the audio source by selecting default discord will not be included in this source so maybe this is a bit too in-depth but it's useful to know how exactly this works and right here mic auxiliary audio you can click on it and then you can scroll to the device you want for example chat mic this is this mic right here and when i click on apply on the bottom you will see that the mic appears here in my mixer and when i'm speaking the mic is moving so this is all working now the next step we're gonna go to is the video tab and like i said in the intro and in the title of this video i'm gonna show you how to set this up for 1080p 60fps now some people advise to stream in 720p 60fps because then you can use a lower bitrate and because of that people who have a very slow internet speed who are watching your stream will be able to watch it more easily without buffering or without much buffering because you're streaming in a lower quality and it's easier for them to download the stream while watching but we are 2021 right now when i film this video internet speeds are getting faster and it's pretty rare someone who is watching your stream won't be able to watch it in 1080p 60 fps so i'm going to show you how to set that up right here you want to select 1920x1080 and as your output you also want to choose 1920 by 1080. then the downskill filter you can set this to bilinear because as you see it's the fastest but blurriest scaling but we are not scaling because both of these are by 1080. so because of that setting this to bilinear is the most efficient way for your pc and then your fps you want to set this to 60. if you're playing a game with almost no movement like hearthstone something like that then you can stream in 30 fps right here and then you can use a lower bitrate and i'm going to show in a second but most people will want to choose 60 fps then the output tab first of all make sure that the output mode on the top is set to advanced and i'm going to go over the streaming settings in this video if you also wanna learn the recording settings i have a separate video on that so i will link it in the cards it's a complete video about recording there are other things you wanna know when recording videos things you don't need for streaming so i'm gonna explain all those things in that video right now we're gonna set up the streaming tab first thing here is some audio settings and these are really important so you can choose the audio track for your stream and then you can choose a different audio track for your vault and the vault is the stream that will be saved on twitch when you stop streaming so when you stop a recording of your stream will be uploaded to your twitch profile that's a vod video on demand is what it stands for and you can choose which audio track should be on that vault and now which should be on your stream now what is the scenario you can use this in it's not for avoiding dmca a lot of people say that because of this you can remove your music from your vault and this way when you stream with copyrighted music and then when you stop streaming the copyrighted music will not be on your vote if you select a different track right here so because of this people say that you can't be banned if you do this because then your music track will not be saved on your twitch profile when you stop streaming but that's just false because of people who are giving dmca strikes will be doing it live so even if you stream copyrighted music and then you stop streaming and you delete everything or you save the vote without the copyrighted music on it it doesn't matter when you stream copyrighted music whether it's live or on your vault you can be dmca strike so be careful with this never stream copyrighted music so how do these audio tracks work let's click on ok and now let's click on one of the settings icons here in the audio mixer and then let's go to advanced audio properties so because of this you can choose to send your mic to the first track and then not to any of the other tracks this is an example when you click on close you go to the settings and to output then right here if you use audio track 1 for your stream then your microphone will not be going to the stream because you're sending your microphone to the second audio track but we don't wanna do this we wanna select audio track one we wanna make sure that all our sound right here is going to the first track unless you specifically don't want it to go to the stream so how can we use this option to send other things to default well a good way to use it would be this so spotify is open let's click on play now i'm gonna do this quickly because this video is gonna be way too long and this is something extra but i want to show you so when you go to your audio settings and then you scroll down to the volume and device preferences then right here at the bottom you will see spotify now i'm gonna send spotify to another audio device that i'm not using for example my monitors audio driver so i'm gonna send it to that one i'm gonna close it and then spotify is not gonna be going through the desktop audio but when we go to the settings audio then we can add another sound source here and then we can choose our monitor so let's search it right here this is where i send spotify to so when i select this and i click on ok you will see that right now this is playing sound and as you see when i pause spotify this will stop and when i play it again spotify is gonna be playing again so because of this we have spotify in a separate source now what can we do let's click on this cog icon let's go to the advanced audio properties and then right here you will see desktop audio 2 this is spotify and i'm gonna send all these sources to track 1 which will be the stream but i'm gonna disable track 2 for desktop audio 2 so for spotify because i'm going to use this channel 2 for our vault so because of this let's go to the settings to output and then right here when you enable twitch vault track and then you select channel 2 right here then we will be using channel 1 for the stream which is everything and then channel 2 will be our vault on twitch and because of this our vote will not contain the music so that we are downloading your vote afterwards then you have your stream without your music and then you can use it for editing because otherwise when you want to make highlights from your stream or you want to make clips or you want to make tick tocks out of it or anything then you have your music on the background and when you make fast cuts to make it really entertaining for the clip then you will have your music on the background constantly changing with every cut right because it was your stream and your music but when you use channel 2 right here then you won't have your music in your downloaded vault and because of this it's really good for editing now this was a really long explanation sorry for that but this is really interesting so i had to say it and the next thing is the encoder and this is the most important setting of it all let's click on it and as you see i have the option to select nvidia and vienk if you have that option it means that you have a pretty recent nvidia graphics card and then you definitely want to use this because it's really efficient to stream what the vienk means is that your nvidia graphics card has a separate chip on the card that's used for encoding your stream so that means that the graphic card itself is being used to play your game but then the separate chip will be calculating everything and will be encoding the stream while your graphics card itself can focus completely on the game so this is really efficient to stream if you have this select it and then set up the settings i'm gonna guide you through it if you don't have this then you wanna select x264 and before i get a lot of comments about this if you have an amd card you will have another option right here but the sad fact is that it's just not that good so in most cases when you don't have mv no matter which options you get right here you want to select x264 which will be using your processor to do the encoding instead of your nvidia graphics card now if your processor is really bad and it can't handle anything then you might want to select the amd version of mv yank but in most scenarios x264 unless mv yank is available i'm going to do mvn first if you don't have this go to this time in the video so i'm vanc encoding you don't wanna select rescale output you don't wanna do this you wanna set this to cbr which stands for constant bit rate and the constant bit rate is this right here now the optimal setting would be 6 000 for streaming in 1080p 60 fps which is what we've set up right here in the video settings but this right here depends on your internet speed if your internet is fast enough you want to select 6000 if it's not fast enough you will want to lower it because this right here this bit rate is the amount of data you're uploading to the streaming servers so because of this you will need to do a speed test to see what you can handle just go to speedtest.net it's a simple site you just click on go and then it will do a speed test okay so the test is finished and my upload speed is 19 megabits per second now you will need to follow my calculations we're gonna do a few things and it will be pretty simple if you just follow me so just enter the result that you got here in the calculator so it's 18.95 this is my speed now you want to multiply it by 1000 and this will be the amount of bits per second that you can handle on the stream so as you see right here we need to select 6000 to be able to stream in 1080p 60 fps and as you see i can definitely handle this but there's an important thing to know because this speed right here that you've got is the maximum amount of upload speed you can handle but there are other things that are happening on your internet for example your mom or your partner can be watching netflix or your game can suddenly need a bit of internet speed and when you use the maximum amount of internet speed for your bit rate right here then when anything happens on your network your stream will lag because you can't handle the speed anymore so because of this you want to keep a margin so my upload speed was 18.95 we multiplied it by 1000 to get bits per second and now you want to multiply it by 0.7 because of this you will keep a 30 margin for other things on your internet so when i click on this you will see that the result will be 13 265 this is the maximum bit rate i can actually use to stream now this is way more than the amount we need and i often get a lot of questions of people saying i have 260 megabits per second internet speed this is a lot should i use a higher amount for the stream no you shouldn't 6000 is definitely high enough so if this result is higher or equal to 6 000 then enter 6 000 right here if it's lower than 6 000 then just enter the amount that you got as a result if your result right here is 4 200 then just enter that now one extra thing if your result is below let's say 5 000 then you will want to stream in a lower resolution because otherwise it will look bad so if you've done the calculations and your bit rate is below 5000 then go to the video and then change this to 720p both of these things so then you're just streaming 720p instead of 1080p it's not a big deal i'm gonna do it back to 1080 right now for this video let's go to the output so i've done enough explaining for this you enter your bit rate and then your keyframe interval you should set this to two then your preset you should set this to quality this will be sufficient then your profile you can leave this at high look ahead you need to disable this enable cycle visual tuning set the gpu to zero and then your max b frames to two now i'm gonna go over the cpu encoding settings right here if you don't need this you can go to that time in the video so for the people who skip to this time for the x264 settings we're gonna go over this you wanna disable the rescale output right here we don't need this and your rate control you wanna set this to cbr which stands for constant bit rate and the constant bit rate we want to use is this bit rate right here now i've done a big explanation on this before in this video for the nvm settings so you can go to this time in the video to see the bit rate explanation and then afterwards you can skip to right here now then the keyframe interval you want to set this to 2 then the cpu usage preset i'm going to skip this for a second you want to set the profile to high leave the tune at none and then you don't want to enter anything right here so then the last setting for x264 is the cpu usage and this is pretty important so by default it's very fast and this will be good for most people now when you're done setting everything up in this video then you want to go live to test your pc and before you go live you select control shift escape then you go to performance and then right here you see cpu you click on this because x264 encoding here is cpu encoding so it will put a lot of stress on your cpu which is your processor you can make this bigger if you want and then right here you will see a graph of the cpu usage now what you want to do is you want to open this and then you want to start streaming start your game and then do everything like you would stream and then after like one minute you go out of your game and you check this right here and you will see a graph of how stressed your cpu was now if your cpu was around 70 80 percent something like that that's kind of good that means it was working hard to play your game to stream in the meantime stuff like that and that's pretty normal now if your cpu usage was kept at 100 the whole time that means that this setting right here the cpu usage preset was set to hard so in that case you will need to lower it right here and lower is to the top so super fast is easier for your pc to run and then ultra fast is even easier for your pc to run then when you go to the bottom to faster fast medium slow these are really high settings so the lower you go in this list the harder for your cpu the higher you go the easier it will be so just test around with these settings i would advise you to start a very fast do a test if your cpu usage was something around 30 40 percent and your cpu can handle more and then you can set it from very fast to faster or even fast now i wouldn't recommend you to go any higher unless you have a really powerful cpu i think my cpu can handle something like medium to stream but it's a 3900 x it's a 12 core that's why it can handle it most cpus will be better at something like very fast or faster or maybe fast if it's a strong one i've done enough explaining for the setting so test around with this find the right setting and then the last step for the settings is the stream tab right here and this is where you link it to your streaming service now for twitch it's really easy because you just select twitch right here and then you just connect your account you log in with your account and you're set when you click on start streaming you will go live on your twitch account before other things like youtube and facebook for example it's harder because you have an online interface of youtube or facebook that you have to set up you have to get your stream key then you need to implement your stream key right here for example when i go to youtube you see you need to add your stream key but you also have the online interface of youtube where you have to set up some things so i have separate videos for youtube and facebook and i will link them right there or right there because there i explain the process of setting it up online then importing the stream key right here and then you will be ready to stream on those platforms i would really appreciate it if you would like this video and then place a comment it really helps me in youtube algorithm thanks a lot for watching and i will see you in one of my next videos have a nice dayhey welcome back to the channel today we are going over all the settings in obs studio and i'm going to show you how to stream in 1080p 60fps and i'm also going to show you some settings that will make it easier to manage your stream i'm in a temporary setup right now because i'm making a new studio i'm gonna make a whole video about that probably a few videos but for now i need to film three videos right here so yeah don't mind a pretty boring background the first thing i want to show you is that right here you see profile and just like with the scene collections maybe you've seen this already when you go to another scene collection as you see things changed right here this is for your graphics but right here the profile this is for your settings as you see i'm on untitled right now when i click on this you see the aspect ratio just changed so if you make a new profile right here for example 1080p 60fps that way you can just make a bunch of profiles for different types of settings and then you can set up different things so right here they ask us to auto configure we're not going to do that so let's click on cancel and now let's go to the settings and right now we have a completely new profile i'm gonna set up all these steps together with you so just follow through this video i know that it will be a pretty long video but i've made a bunch of these in the past the settings videos every year i make one and people always comment that it's very clear and that they understand all the settings after watching the video and i'm not saying this to breck not at all i'm just saying if you want to get a clear understanding of what all these settings do if you want to be able to change them yourself and watching this entire video is a pretty good idea you're probably gonna stream for a long time so just take the time to understand these settings and yeah let's start after a quick message from our sponsor onto tv is a big graphic swap shop for streamers i'm on their website right now and as you see right here you can see stream designs and when you click on this button right here you can see all of their complete packages and for example this one is my favorite let's click on it you can see a preview video right here on the top but when you scroll to the bottom this is the best part you can just click on these buttons and now you can see how the alert will look on your stream or for example you can go to the animated talking banner that's how it will look and then if you want to see the transition you just click on it this is an amazing preview tool you can go to their website you can check out all their packages they are all animated they are high quality and if you use my code tv and i check out you will get 50 of your price i will add the link to their website in my description until tv check them out okay let's go to the settings and now let's go over all the important things right here in the general tab there are a few things you want to check out so first of all here the theme you can change this from the dark team to something else i'm not gonna do it that's your choice but then here this is really important in my opinion show confirmation dialogue when starting streams and then when stopping streams otherwise you can accidentally click on start streaming instead of start recording stuff like that and of course you don't want to start streaming by accident so just enable this and then whenever you click on start streaming you will need to click on ok before you actually go live then another useful thing is here automatically record when streaming when you want to record all your streams and you set up the recording settings then you can enable this and whenever you start your stream you will also record by default i'm going to disable this right now and that's everything you want to set up right here the other things aren't that important so then the next thing i want to show you is the advanced step you want to set your process priority to height and here you see stream delay and this can be handy for example again stream snipers stuff like that if you want to have a delay in your stream you just enable here you choose the amount of seconds and then your stream will have a 20 second delay i'm gonna disable this right now we don't need this let's go to the hotkey step and this is really interesting many people skip this step and it's so so useful for example right here you see on the bottom left i have scene and then i have scene two but here in scene two you see switch to scene and then you can set a keybind for that so let's set ak bind click on ok and as you see when i click on that keyboard right now i will go to this scene and this is so useful because when you're in game and you want to switch your scenes you don't want to all tap out of it and then go to obs change your scene go back so if you don't have a stream deck to switch your scenes then you can just go to the hotkeys tab and then add some hot keys to switch your scenes and you can read through this to see if anything is useful right here for example muting your microphone stuff like that muting a different audio source you can do a lot of things with this so just go over the hotkeys and you will probably find some things that are really handy for you now next i want to go to the audio tab and right here you want to select your audio devices so desktop audio this will be set to default and when you right click on your sound right here and you go to sound settings right here you see choose your output device this is the default device so this device right here is as you see my headphones what does this mean all the sounds that are being sent to my headphone will also be sent right here to this source in obs so for example if you go to your advanced audio settings and then right here you can send discord to something else let's say to my screen right here so right now the discord sound is going to this audio source it's not going to the default one which is my headphones so because of that when you're importing your headphones right here in the audio source by selecting default discord will not be included in this source so maybe this is a bit too in-depth but it's useful to know how exactly this works and right here mic auxiliary audio you can click on it and then you can scroll to the device you want for example chat mic this is this mic right here and when i click on apply on the bottom you will see that the mic appears here in my mixer and when i'm speaking the mic is moving so this is all working now the next step we're gonna go to is the video tab and like i said in the intro and in the title of this video i'm gonna show you how to set this up for 1080p 60fps now some people advise to stream in 720p 60fps because then you can use a lower bitrate and because of that people who have a very slow internet speed who are watching your stream will be able to watch it more easily without buffering or without much buffering because you're streaming in a lower quality and it's easier for them to download the stream while watching but we are 2021 right now when i film this video internet speeds are getting faster and it's pretty rare someone who is watching your stream won't be able to watch it in 1080p 60 fps so i'm going to show you how to set that up right here you want to select 1920x1080 and as your output you also want to choose 1920 by 1080. then the downskill filter you can set this to bilinear because as you see it's the fastest but blurriest scaling but we are not scaling because both of these are by 1080. so because of that setting this to bilinear is the most efficient way for your pc and then your fps you want to set this to 60. if you're playing a game with almost no movement like hearthstone something like that then you can stream in 30 fps right here and then you can use a lower bitrate and i'm going to show in a second but most people will want to choose 60 fps then the output tab first of all make sure that the output mode on the top is set to advanced and i'm going to go over the streaming settings in this video if you also wanna learn the recording settings i have a separate video on that so i will link it in the cards it's a complete video about recording there are other things you wanna know when recording videos things you don't need for streaming so i'm gonna explain all those things in that video right now we're gonna set up the streaming tab first thing here is some audio settings and these are really important so you can choose the audio track for your stream and then you can choose a different audio track for your vault and the vault is the stream that will be saved on twitch when you stop streaming so when you stop a recording of your stream will be uploaded to your twitch profile that's a vod video on demand is what it stands for and you can choose which audio track should be on that vault and now which should be on your stream now what is the scenario you can use this in it's not for avoiding dmca a lot of people say that because of this you can remove your music from your vault and this way when you stream with copyrighted music and then when you stop streaming the copyrighted music will not be on your vote if you select a different track right here so because of this people say that you can't be banned if you do this because then your music track will not be saved on your twitch profile when you stop streaming but that's just false because of people who are giving dmca strikes will be doing it live so even if you stream copyrighted music and then you stop streaming and you delete everything or you save the vote without the copyrighted music on it it doesn't matter when you stream copyrighted music whether it's live or on your vault you can be dmca strike so be careful with this never stream copyrighted music so how do these audio tracks work let's click on ok and now let's click on one of the settings icons here in the audio mixer and then let's go to advanced audio properties so because of this you can choose to send your mic to the first track and then not to any of the other tracks this is an example when you click on close you go to the settings and to output then right here if you use audio track 1 for your stream then your microphone will not be going to the stream because you're sending your microphone to the second audio track but we don't wanna do this we wanna select audio track one we wanna make sure that all our sound right here is going to the first track unless you specifically don't want it to go to the stream so how can we use this option to send other things to default well a good way to use it would be this so spotify is open let's click on play now i'm gonna do this quickly because this video is gonna be way too long and this is something extra but i want to show you so when you go to your audio settings and then you scroll down to the volume and device preferences then right here at the bottom you will see spotify now i'm gonna send spotify to another audio device that i'm not using for example my monitors audio driver so i'm gonna send it to that one i'm gonna close it and then spotify is not gonna be going through the desktop audio but when we go to the settings audio then we can add another sound source here and then we can choose our monitor so let's search it right here this is where i send spotify to so when i select this and i click on ok you will see that right now this is playing sound and as you see when i pause spotify this will stop and when i play it again spotify is gonna be playing again so because of this we have spotify in a separate source now what can we do let's click on this cog icon let's go to the advanced audio properties and then right here you will see desktop audio 2 this is spotify and i'm gonna send all these sources to track 1 which will be the stream but i'm gonna disable track 2 for desktop audio 2 so for spotify because i'm going to use this channel 2 for our vault so because of this let's go to the settings to output and then right here when you enable twitch vault track and then you select channel 2 right here then we will be using channel 1 for the stream which is everything and then channel 2 will be our vault on twitch and because of this our vote will not contain the music so that we are downloading your vote afterwards then you have your stream without your music and then you can use it for editing because otherwise when you want to make highlights from your stream or you want to make clips or you want to make tick tocks out of it or anything then you have your music on the background and when you make fast cuts to make it really entertaining for the clip then you will have your music on the background constantly changing with every cut right because it was your stream and your music but when you use channel 2 right here then you won't have your music in your downloaded vault and because of this it's really good for editing now this was a really long explanation sorry for that but this is really interesting so i had to say it and the next thing is the encoder and this is the most important setting of it all let's click on it and as you see i have the option to select nvidia and vienk if you have that option it means that you have a pretty recent nvidia graphics card and then you definitely want to use this because it's really efficient to stream what the vienk means is that your nvidia graphics card has a separate chip on the card that's used for encoding your stream so that means that the graphic card itself is being used to play your game but then the separate chip will be calculating everything and will be encoding the stream while your graphics card itself can focus completely on the game so this is really efficient to stream if you have this select it and then set up the settings i'm gonna guide you through it if you don't have this then you wanna select x264 and before i get a lot of comments about this if you have an amd card you will have another option right here but the sad fact is that it's just not that good so in most cases when you don't have mv no matter which options you get right here you want to select x264 which will be using your processor to do the encoding instead of your nvidia graphics card now if your processor is really bad and it can't handle anything then you might want to select the amd version of mv yank but in most scenarios x264 unless mv yank is available i'm going to do mvn first if you don't have this go to this time in the video so i'm vanc encoding you don't wanna select rescale output you don't wanna do this you wanna set this to cbr which stands for constant bit rate and the constant bit rate is this right here now the optimal setting would be 6 000 for streaming in 1080p 60 fps which is what we've set up right here in the video settings but this right here depends on your internet speed if your internet is fast enough you want to select 6000 if it's not fast enough you will want to lower it because this right here this bit rate is the amount of data you're uploading to the streaming servers so because of this you will need to do a speed test to see what you can handle just go to speedtest.net it's a simple site you just click on go and then it will do a speed test okay so the test is finished and my upload speed is 19 megabits per second now you will need to follow my calculations we're gonna do a few things and it will be pretty simple if you just follow me so just enter the result that you got here in the calculator so it's 18.95 this is my speed now you want to multiply it by 1000 and this will be the amount of bits per second that you can handle on the stream so as you see right here we need to select 6000 to be able to stream in 1080p 60 fps and as you see i can definitely handle this but there's an important thing to know because this speed right here that you've got is the maximum amount of upload speed you can handle but there are other things that are happening on your internet for example your mom or your partner can be watching netflix or your game can suddenly need a bit of internet speed and when you use the maximum amount of internet speed for your bit rate right here then when anything happens on your network your stream will lag because you can't handle the speed anymore so because of this you want to keep a margin so my upload speed was 18.95 we multiplied it by 1000 to get bits per second and now you want to multiply it by 0.7 because of this you will keep a 30 margin for other things on your internet so when i click on this you will see that the result will be 13 265 this is the maximum bit rate i can actually use to stream now this is way more than the amount we need and i often get a lot of questions of people saying i have 260 megabits per second internet speed this is a lot should i use a higher amount for the stream no you shouldn't 6000 is definitely high enough so if this result is higher or equal to 6 000 then enter 6 000 right here if it's lower than 6 000 then just enter the amount that you got as a result if your result right here is 4 200 then just enter that now one extra thing if your result is below let's say 5 000 then you will want to stream in a lower resolution because otherwise it will look bad so if you've done the calculations and your bit rate is below 5000 then go to the video and then change this to 720p both of these things so then you're just streaming 720p instead of 1080p it's not a big deal i'm gonna do it back to 1080 right now for this video let's go to the output so i've done enough explaining for this you enter your bit rate and then your keyframe interval you should set this to two then your preset you should set this to quality this will be sufficient then your profile you can leave this at high look ahead you need to disable this enable cycle visual tuning set the gpu to zero and then your max b frames to two now i'm gonna go over the cpu encoding settings right here if you don't need this you can go to that time in the video so for the people who skip to this time for the x264 settings we're gonna go over this you wanna disable the rescale output right here we don't need this and your rate control you wanna set this to cbr which stands for constant bit rate and the constant bit rate we want to use is this bit rate right here now i've done a big explanation on this before in this video for the nvm settings so you can go to this time in the video to see the bit rate explanation and then afterwards you can skip to right here now then the keyframe interval you want to set this to 2 then the cpu usage preset i'm going to skip this for a second you want to set the profile to high leave the tune at none and then you don't want to enter anything right here so then the last setting for x264 is the cpu usage and this is pretty important so by default it's very fast and this will be good for most people now when you're done setting everything up in this video then you want to go live to test your pc and before you go live you select control shift escape then you go to performance and then right here you see cpu you click on this because x264 encoding here is cpu encoding so it will put a lot of stress on your cpu which is your processor you can make this bigger if you want and then right here you will see a graph of the cpu usage now what you want to do is you want to open this and then you want to start streaming start your game and then do everything like you would stream and then after like one minute you go out of your game and you check this right here and you will see a graph of how stressed your cpu was now if your cpu was around 70 80 percent something like that that's kind of good that means it was working hard to play your game to stream in the meantime stuff like that and that's pretty normal now if your cpu usage was kept at 100 the whole time that means that this setting right here the cpu usage preset was set to hard so in that case you will need to lower it right here and lower is to the top so super fast is easier for your pc to run and then ultra fast is even easier for your pc to run then when you go to the bottom to faster fast medium slow these are really high settings so the lower you go in this list the harder for your cpu the higher you go the easier it will be so just test around with these settings i would advise you to start a very fast do a test if your cpu usage was something around 30 40 percent and your cpu can handle more and then you can set it from very fast to faster or even fast now i wouldn't recommend you to go any higher unless you have a really powerful cpu i think my cpu can handle something like medium to stream but it's a 3900 x it's a 12 core that's why it can handle it most cpus will be better at something like very fast or faster or maybe fast if it's a strong one i've done enough explaining for the setting so test around with this find the right setting and then the last step for the settings is the stream tab right here and this is where you link it to your streaming service now for twitch it's really easy because you just select twitch right here and then you just connect your account you log in with your account and you're set when you click on start streaming you will go live on your twitch account before other things like youtube and facebook for example it's harder because you have an online interface of youtube or facebook that you have to set up you have to get your stream key then you need to implement your stream key right here for example when i go to youtube you see you need to add your stream key but you also have the online interface of youtube where you have to set up some things so i have separate videos for youtube and facebook and i will link them right there or right there because there i explain the process of setting it up online then importing the stream key right here and then you will be ready to stream on those platforms i would really appreciate it if you would like this video and then place a comment it really helps me in youtube algorithm thanks a lot for watching and i will see you in one of my next videos have a nice day