Game Streaming Thread!

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:26

Seeing as the scene is getting bigger and more and more people are streaming due to it being more available.

Thought I'd start this thread for people to post up there streams and what games they are going to stream. What software they are using ect and help and tips for new streams on setting up there streams.

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My Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/peeejayz

I'm Currently Streaming COD, WoW, BF3, TF2, Minecraft and SC2
Comming up when I can: SWTOR, Diabalo 3

I'm currenly mainly steaming at 720p if the game allows, using xsplit. Usually most weeknights after 6pm and usually weekend daytimes.

Please drop by sometime join the chat and follow

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:35

maxilive said:
What is your upload? I was wondering how you manage to stream Multiplayer games without lagging like crazy!

I'm on VM 100mb, with a upload of 10mb.

I have streamed on 2mb upload before and a lot of streams do this.

Its all about tinkering with your settings to get a mix of decent bitrate,quality and res.

taking up about 1mb of bandwidth you can usually get a decent 480i stream.

On my 10mb I could easily stream 1080p, but I'd need to upgrade to a i7 and a better gfx card to be able to do this.

If your looking at starting, I recommend just playing with your settings. There are some decent guides around on how to get started and I can always show off my settings on stream if people wanna see them?

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:49

tlrBeta said:
May I ask why you are streaming? Are you a caster or just for general people to watch your gameplay?

Just use Adobe Media Encoder, probably the best free tool to use

Generally, just my game play, showing myself playing, wanting to playwith new people. Have been playing games with people on stream ect.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:52

gareth170 said:
im looking at starting....

is it free and what software?

I personally use: http://www.xsplit.com/

It is currently a free piece of software that has been developed 100% for game streaming. For a guide on how to set it up just google, there are lots of really good guides online.

There are other free streaming programes like FME ect that are more complicated to setup - guides available online again.

If you setup an account on www.twitch.tv or www.justin.tv (twitch is the gaming side of justin TV), there are guides ect.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 14:31

tlrBeta said:
Not trying to be funny, are you a 'pro-gamer' or a skilled gamer in that aspect? I just find it strange that you think people will want to watch you play if you weren't delivering or providing something to them.

I mean if your after playing with new people, is it not better to just get on irc and speak to people? If your doing tutorials, advertise it as that. With such a broad range of games you posted at the top, there might be some community gaps you could fill with tutorials.

I was a 'pro' gamer, playing CS at top uk levels online. But now more of someone that enjoys playing games playing a large range of them. I do raid endgame content in wow being in a top 100 eu guild for a lot of mytime.

This thread wasn't for me. It was for people to post there streams and discuss about streaming. I personally really enjoy watching anyone playing streams be them a pro or not.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 14:49

gareth170 said:
i've setted up mine.

it's at 1920x1080

http://www.twitch.tv/gareth170

Looks good, drop it to 720, wack up the quality to 8 and put higher sound quality on and you got a good stream there mate. only thing that let it down was the odd spikes and some pixelation

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 14:49

Eames said:
haha sounds like someone is farting on gareths stream

I think thats the low sound quality, or he hasn't muted a mic in xsplit.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:06

garsands said:
Seems it could be abit dangerous this live streaming if you forget to turn it off.
Have just been watching your live stream gareth170 & could see you windows desk top & all your programs, steam account frends list ect so I am guessing if you was looking at websites ect I could see everything you was viewing.
Like online banking account numbers & amounts ect (not passwords) Facebook details ect.
But I think it's great to be able to watch players playing games as if I was thinking of buying agame & this was no demo I could get a feel of the game by watching it being played.

Xsplit has a function that only shows the sames window and will only stream what the exe is showing. And then blacks the screen for anything else.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:19

B&W said:
who wants to watch you play when i can play myself

I watch a lot when I'm at work, some people listen to music ect at work, I watch/listen to streams, also you can learn a lot yourself on how to play a game from just watching.

Also new games gets you an idea of what a game is like before its released/you put £40 down on a game.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:53

Lighters said:
I have 1meg upload what would be the highest settings I could stream at while using ts and connected to an online gameserver in cod4.

I can get 1mb to 1.6mb upload depending on my settings! would that extra 600 help at all?

I'd say something about 480 wiht a quality setting about 6-8. Its always hard tho. and best thing you can do is set it up and test settings for lag ect.

But 1mb up is enough to stream not great but should be fine.

Generally the bigger limitation is based on your PC hardware.

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2011 at 18:36

Lighters said:
My hardware is pretty good,
i7 920 3.8ghz
570 GTX
1tb HD samsung f1
6gb ram
16mb download 1meg upload to 1.6

You should be good on that behalf, set it up at 480p and quality 8/9 and see if you have any lag on the stream - get a mate to test. If it doesn't try 720p at quality 6/7 don't forget quality counts a lot more than res. A stream at 480 quality 9 is better than 720p @ 5 quality..

I'm just about to go live and play some CoD if anyone wants to watch/chat

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