Streaming Quality Issues + Noise Gate Help

Hi! So i was trying to stream minecraft earlier and im having a weird quality issue, and i have it in other games too. Where it just looks really blurry/pixelated. Ive tried messing with bitrates and stuff but it doesnt seem to fix anything. Before i have had my bitrate at 8000, i also have a i9-12900k so i have the encoding stuff pretty high even though idkwhat alot of it means. I also have it outputting at 1080p, but in the past with recording ive had it scaled to higher resolutions to make it look better for recordings.


Also the noise gate thing, alot of times the mic will pick up just like mouth noises and it sounds gross and i dont want it to go through but no matter how much i mess with the noise gate, it seems to barely help. Granted, i really have trouble understranding noise gates. For example i think i have the settings right like i dont want anything under say -35db to be picked up, but sometimes it does, and other times if i say something above that, then theres a noise a second later at a lower volume, it will pick it up. It confuses me alot, any help would be apreciated!
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