And sure enough, when I backed the stream off to “Medium”, the problems almost immediately cleared themselves. My audience kept complaining of stuttering, skipping, and lots of dropped frames. I figured the 5960X, which I initially had OC’d to 4.3GHz, could handle it. But I have this lunatic-like insistence that my 1080p/60FPS stream be sent up with the “Slow” OBS Studio preset. Initially, I had planned to stream directly to Twitch from my new streaming rig. How It’s Connected TogetherĪ picture is worth way more than any words I could craft up. Cam Link (with a GoPro Hero 5 connected to it)Īs mentioned: I’m not sponsored by Elgato (or anyone mentioned in this post).
To handle streaming duty, I added some hardware from Elgato Gaming to it:
The need for that will become apparent as I dive into the Streaming Rig in the next section. Specifically in this case: a GPU that can mirror its primary display out an available HDMI 2.0 port. The main component on the gaming rig that’s required for streaming is: the GPU. I’m not going to go over all of the parts of the rig rather I’m going to focus on the components that help with the streaming. The components that make up my gaming rig, along with some of the ancillary audio and video components are listed on this page. I’m merely a happy customer and user of their respective goods. Please note that I’m not sponsored by any of them, nor have they contacted me about this, nor any such thing. This section may also seem like a giant advertisement for several brands. Remember the second bullet point in the Introduction section: I overdo things. There’s a reason for that, and it goes along with my lunacy of over-doing things. With those goals in mind, I moved my streaming setup to a triple-rig one.
Place no or negligible load on my gaming PC.And I wanted to make sure that when doing all of this, the recording and streaming added nearly no load to my gaming PC. But, I still wanted to be able to record my game play without my ugly mug in the videos. So why change it? Well late last year, I decided to “get over it” and add a face cam to my Twitch streams. Previous articles here have made it clear that my streaming setup was working. I’m just going to explain what I have and why I set the system up the way I did. With that, please understand that if you want to replicate what I’ve done here, you’re going to be spending a fair chunk of money. “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing” is a statement the Mythbusters made famous some time ago. I over-engineer everything because I get a kick out of it. I overdo it when it comes to hardware.This is going to be wordy, and I refuse to do “TL DR” summaries at the end.And what better topic than my setup?īefore we go too much further, just a warning or two: Since I haven’t been writing and publishing a whole lot on this site in ages, I figured it might be time to restart that. Recently, I’ve made some significant changes to my hardware and software setup to handle the streaming and recording. Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a few articles here about my adventures streaming to Twitch (and YouTube before that).