Stream professional content with ease

Now your PC is going to optimise itself for its specifications and the network capabilities, making sure it gives you the best quality it can. You can click through the program and let it automatically detect its settings or you can manually set it up yourself, here's how:

On the top right corner click on settings and you'll want to select NVENC as your encoder if you’re streaming on a low-end CPU. Next go to the output settings and set your bitrate according to what type of quality you’re streaming at.

1080p 60fps, your bitrate should be 4,500 to 6,000 kbps.
1080p 30fps, your bitrate should be 3,500 to 5,000 kbps.
720p 60fps, your bitrate should be 3,500 to 5,000 kbps.
720p, 30fps, your bitrate should be 2,500 to 4,000 kbps.

This highly depends on your internet connection however and a lot of it is trial and error. If your stream is experiencing a lot of buffer, the likely factor is that your ISP will not let you stream at that bitrate and you need to turn it down.

Finally head to video and select your base canvas, this is what you see, as 1080p. Set the output resolution and FPS type, which is what your stream sees, and select according to your ISP. Bare in mind, higher quality isn’t always better. If you’re an affiliate on Twitch you won’t get encoding options and your viewers will not be able to decrease the quality of your stream which means you’re ultimately condemning them to a buffering, lagging stream because their ISP can’t download it. So keep your audience in mind. Sometimes a crisp quality, non-laggy stream is better than a full HD 1080p 60FPS stream.