I know there are people out there who have a lot more familiarity with streamlabs settings, so I beseech you for your wisdom. Sometimes it runs smoothly, streaming 1080p 60 fps with variable bitrate between 4800-5500, but most of the time what viewers see is a stuttering mess, where every second or so there is a severe hitch in gameplay. My games tend to run fine-except for Risk of Rain, which is unplayable unless I change the resolution to 1080p-but the stream performance is all over the place. Since I have an 8C/16T CPU that runs at decent boost clocks, usually 4.2GHz all-core with 2 cores at 4.3, I imagine that CPU encoding would be the way to go, but regardless of my encoder I notice pretty severe hitching in the stream content. I have tried both CPU and GPU/NVENC encoding, and have found mixed results with both. I run all my games at 1440p, and prefer them to run at 100Hz or more with decent detail settings, since its a 2080S. GPU is pinned in some games (War Thunder, Risk of Rain) but not in others (Rocket League, which is capped at 175FPS). My RAM usage hovers between 40% and 60% while streaming. I run HWINFO while streaming, and my GPU temps never exceed 75 degrees C, and my CPU never exceeds 50C, so I know temperatures aren't my limitation.

Optional: I have an elgato 4k60 Mk2 capture card, but I don't think plugging it into the same PC that runs the games will really do anything. Gigabit Ethernet from Charter Spectrum (only gigabit option in my area, speeds are pretty good) Lian Li PC-011D Razer with all 9 fans populated, so no airflow issues Ryzen 7 2700X, cooled by NZXT Kraken X72 with noctua redux fansĢx16GB TridentZ NEO RGB 3200Mhz CL 16 (x470 wont go above 3200 sadly) I tend to be technically literate (I work in IT) but stream settings are something new to me.

My PC specs are strong, but still I find lots of stuttering in my streams and I am unsure what settings to use with my hardware and with my games.

I am a small streamer, I like streaming video game content to my friends.

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