AMD Encoding/streaming settings for twitch.
Hi all I posted a while back and got a lot of help from my new rig. I switched to AMD from NVIDIA. What settings should I pay attention to for streaming to twitch? I am currently getting some very minor lag during my Hunt: Showdown streams, it seems to only be a small moment when walking my character will hang on the left foot for just enough to notice. It shows the FPS as being fine, and the latency is low as usual. Never had the issue before with my RTX 2080 super and this only really happens while streaming. I assume the AMD encoding may be to blame, but I am not sure.
Current specs:
Ryzen 9 7900x
Radeon 7900xtx
32G of 6000 Mhz DDR5
I will also attach my OBS settings.
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Unknown User•3y ago
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Yeah it's a pretty CPU intensive game. It actually has quite a bit of room for the GPU to still pull from. Like in the game menus you can set the video memory to take 70%, 80% or 90% and I have it set right around 80 and it doesn't even get close to that. Only thing I'm worried about with using x264 is putting more strain in the CPU.
Unknown User•3y ago
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I guess the better question is, is there much difference between x264 and the AMD H264 encoder?
CPU x264 will outperform AMD's h264 encoder in terms of quality 9 times out 10
I think I actually fixed it.
Still using AMD's but the video from Epos I found said that it actually worked better on the RDNA3 cards to set the B-frames to 0. Made that change and I also cranked the bitrate to 8000 kbs. Weird thing is not only did it fix my issue, but the CPU usage in OBS went to like 0.7%. Before it was at like 60%+