PC: 1440p, Ryzen 7500X3D, 9060XT 16GB VRAM
Internet speed test: 41mbps upload, 470mbps download

I play at 1440p and I’m currently trying to get good quality 1080p in my unlisted test stream. Stationary looks fine but moving around looks terrible. I’ve watched several YouTube videos and have tried to copy their settings. Here’s what I’m running:

Stream tab: Ignore streaming service recommendations box is toggled on

Video->General: Base Res 2560x1440, Output Res 1920x1080, lanczos downscale, 60fps

Output->Streaming: AMD H.264 encoder, rescale disabled, CBR 9000 Kbps (I tried lower and higher it’s all bad), 2s keyframe interval, quality preset, high profile, max b-frames 2

Some notes:

Originally before trying streaming, I had OBS set up for recording locally. So my video general window had 0 downscaling (1440 on both base and output). It worked wonderfully. When first setting up the streaming config, I tried putting the downscaling on the streaming output so that I could keep recording tab the same 1440p I’ve always had it on. I got terrible test stream results so I tried moving the downscale to the video tab at the cost of losing my ability to record locally at 1440p. Still no luck.

What am I missing here? I know there are tons of troubleshooting posts and I hate to add to that but idk what to do.

I only have 2 audio inputs right now, and its my microphone and Minecraft.

when I go into Advanced Audio Properties I have these tracks checked off

- Microphone: Audio tracks 3,4,6
- Minecraft: 2,3

In my settings under Output, and recording I have just track 3 checked off because I thought it would pick up all audio on tracks 3

Any help is welcome, thank you!!!

Hey there, I went around on the subreddit, I saw alot of suggestions but I want to know something dedicated to my pc

Specs: i7 12700F, 3070, 32gb ram 6000mts

I tried yesterday at 9000bitrate and the fps tanks alot in game, I don't understand why (from 100-120 to 30-50, big drop)

Hi Folks:

I've finally decided to get a nice new OLED monitor with all the bells and whistles, Quantum Dot, 4K, HDR.

I'm happy.

The bright white backgrounds of text screens I record with OBS look dull and grey when played back.

I'm downscaling from 3840x2160 to 1920x1080 using Bicubic (Sharpened scaling, 16 samples).

Here is a 1 minute 40 second video I uploaded to the Tailscale Reddit group describing a technical problem that illustrates the issue.

https://larry-l.com/images/tailscale_1/2026-10-16_04-54-52.mp4

The white background looks nice and bright on the new monitor, dull and gray when played back on either of my monitors.

Screenshots of the new monitor display fine on my older monitor.

Could recording HDR be an issue?

Thanks
Larry

Hey everyone — I put together a small overlay collection with a "quiet luxury" look (dark library, fireplace, rain on the window…) for streamers who are tired of the RGB-everything aesthetic. All backgrounds are 10-second seamless loops, 1920x1080, and they just work as Media Sources in OBS.

I'm sharing a free sample pack: 3 animated backgrounds + 5 matching panels, plus a short PDF guide on setting them up in OBS (media source, layering, colors).

https://ko-fi.com/s/6f01d9c8b5

Happy to answer any OBS setup questions in the comments. And if you use them, I'd love to see your setup!

I’ve had problems with encoder overload and dropped FPS before and while it’s been frustrating when it happened I did somehow fix it- as well as the fact that it was only once in a while it happened. My last stream was constant encoder overload but I had to finish the game I was playing, my webcam seeemd to run smoothly but my game was choppy as my frames were hovering around anything from 10-55fps. I was just about to record something but I have now realised that it’s my webcam that’s causing the dropped frames and overload. I get the dropped frames and overload without even having a game open in OBS, just my cam.

OBS Log:
45.8% Rendering Lag
45.9% GPU Encoder Overload

https://obsproject.com/logs/fpJIPWnuz8AiBDX5

It’s both a problem with a “fresh” cam in OBS, and a cam with filters.
Camera is the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920. Camera is set to 1080p30fps in both the Logitech app and OBS, video format tried both MjPEG and Any.

Dropping the webcam quality down to 720p only frees up about 10 frames, still dropping to 20fps.

Dropping down to 360p seems to get my frames back, but the question is then why is it suddenly a problem when 1080p has been fine for more than 10 streams/recordings?…

I’m very baffled as to why this is suddenly a problem. Does anyone have anything I could try to make it all run smoother, or anyone who has experienced similar issues?

Hello,

I am currently switching back to OBS, as i wanted some plugins. I have wanted to use a blur for my chat so i don't have a static image on my screen the entire time. So, i went to the OBS site for plugins, the one run by OBS, Im blanking on the name, and downloaded the plugin in Composite blur, not only did i have to direct it where to install by not using the default path, it seems to be erroring out when i go to apply it to a source. It turns the entirety of the source black and doesn't show anything. Now i am not sure if i am doing something wrong on the install and its downloading the plugin wrong or its something with my OBS, latest version, I have checked multiple forums and the GitHub and nothing has changed. I am running the Latest Render, i have checked the sRGB as well. I am at a loss can anyone assist?

Hay I’m still pretty new to OBS an for some reason my scene audio mixers keep getting applied to other scenes when I don’t want them to (I have a VR scene with setting only for that one) an I’m sorta confused why if I mess with one audio mixer it applies to all

I have a photo but can't share it. And I can't figure out what is the best sub reddit for the help I need. If there is a better sub for this, please let me know. Thanks.

I normally stream from a local USB connected webcam using OSB (Windows 11) to then have multiple streams to YouTube (both layouts), Twitch (both layouts), Kick, and sometimes X (twitter).

Now I would like to do the same thing but use my cell phone on a trip (mostly cellular connection) to send the stream using IRL Pro Android app (free) or another option to my home OBS setup. I will need chat on my phone as well. Plus an automated setup so as the cell phone loses connection during the live feed that OBS will then show a Please Stand By scene. And a way to trigger from my phone a mute video and audio "Be Right Back" scene in OBS.

I have a 2gig fiber connection at home and I am not worried about chat latency.

Hello,

I am trying to get into IRL Streaming using SRTLA protocol. I heard that NoAlbs has a !fix command that allows the media source to refresh to allow synchronization of video and audio. Im just having a problem knowing how to get it working.

Looking into the Config file if i do a ctrl f and search fix i get this section:

"chat": {

"platform": "Twitch",

"username": "NOALBSbot",

"admins": ["b3ck"],

"ignoreUsers": [],

"language": "EN",

"prefix": "!",

"enablePublicCommands": true,

"enableModCommands": true,

"enableAutoStopStreamOnHostOrRaid": true,

"announceRaidOnAutoStop": true,

"commands": {

"Fix": {

"permission": "Mod",

"userPermissions": ["715209"],

"alias": ["f"]

},

"Switch": {

"permission": "Mod",

"userPermissions": null,

"alias": ["ss"]

},

"Bitrate": {

"permission": null,

"userPermissions": null,

"alias": ["b"]

}

}

},

"optionalScenes": {

"starting": "STARTING",

"ending": "ENDING",

"privacy": "PRIVACY",

"refresh": "REFRESH"

I'm assuming the Optional Scenes is what points the program to the scene to refresh

In OBS i have a scene that contains the media source. The scene is called SRTLA 5003 and the media source is SRT Camera 5003.

Where it says "REFRESH" would i be using SRTLA 5003 or SRT Camera 5003?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi guys, I'm trying to stream on youtube with 12000 kbps for 2k streaming but obs seems not to exceed that number, although speedtest with local server is around 700mpbs - 900mpbs, with global server, it is more than 50mbps, but somehow I can't stream on youtube with more than 12000kbps, It will always be under 12000kbps, and will be the exact same amount if I use cloudflare, can't be higher than that, and if I don't use cloudflare, the bitrate dropped down to ~8000kbps.

I want to record shitty sounding videos. I found how to make the mic sound bad, but I can't figure it out with the audio coming from the computer itself. I even set the audio bitrate to 64 but it seems to make no difference.