BEST Streaming Settings for OBS Studio! - 2024 Guide

Many content creators, especially those just starting, find it really difficult to set up their OBS so their stream looks amazing. Just getting the setting sent to you doesn't work... You need someone to explain it for you, so that is what I do!

Work with me to 1-on-1 to grow your stream and kickstart your career:

When troubleshooting lag in OBS, you’ll encounter missed frames and skipped frames. Missed frames happen when your graphics card struggles to keep up with rendering. A simple fix is lowering your game’s quality or restricting the frame rate to 60 FPS. On the other hand, skipped frames occur when the encoder on your GPU is overloaded. Limiting your game to 60 or even 30 FPS can significantly reduce the load on your system without sacrificing stream quality.

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🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:29 - How to make your Stream look good?
1:15 - How to fix a Laggy Stream?
2:52 - How to solve Low Frame rate streams?
4:23 - How should I set up my Encoder?
6:20 - What bitrate should I stream at?
8:12 - What is a Keyframe?
9:15 - What are the best streaming settings for OBS with an NVIDIA card?
10:27 - What is a B-frame?
11:01 - How to set up Audio in OBS?
12:57 - How to stop disconnecting from Twitch?
13:54 - What are the best recording settings for OBS?

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This channel was inspired by people such as Alpha Gaming / Harris Heller and Stream Scheme. For the technical aspects a lot of the inspiration comes from Nutty, while the design aspect is inspired by Sam Woodhall. All of these people are amazing content creators and deserve the respect they are given.

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[AshKapow]

It is nice to go through the settings and finally understand WHY I'm setting the settings. Thanks!

[htage]

Interesting and really qualitative video. Thank you very much

[SolsSpaceTV]

Very good and educational video, boutta start looking some of this stuff up on my own and see what else im missing out on. Super seriously, thanks a ton for this!

[TebTarget]

Thank god I found you. Amazing content.

[jasmaxwell]

This is truly the first OBS Settings video I've ever seen that actually explains what each function means. And I've seen dozens and dozens of them over my lifetime. Great job sir!

[BigPileOfWesley]

This is awesome, solid work on going through the different settings!

[JohanMartin]

Just watched the whole video and you helped a lot with some clarification on settings! However I’ve noticed in every tutorial you all have the preset, tuning and multi pass mode however in my OBS I only have Preset and Profile Im sure it’s been updated (quite frequently) but if anyone knows a fix it would help me a ton 😂🙏

[Patriot_King]

Fantastic Video! The absolute best "Best Stream Settings" vid I have seen. Thank you for this

[CubeGamezYT]

Thank you so much for an amazing video. This will definitely help me out on my journey.

[Highphi]

Base Canvas? Output scaling? If playing 4k (i.e.) but you set the base canvas to 1080 then transform in OBS window to fit screen then no need to scale and honestly a better picture than downscaling for the same file size. Is there a reason not to do this?

[buddybudbomber]

need the video on recording hahah since the cod beta is releasing soon!! I appreciate it though!

[Saknika]

Also, my OBS is different for the keyframe presets. I don't have P1-7, I have High/Med/Low; and likewise for profile. I'm also missing some of the encoder settings that you have.

[sybomax]

Great info. Under my Encoder settings though for Preset my only options are Quality, Balanced, and Speed (e.g. no P7). I also don't have the Tuning and Multipass Mode settings. Is this an AMD vs. NVidia thing?

[Saknika]

Was the peeing Cheeba? Because I definitely clipped such a moment during one of Epic's streams where Cheeba was present... 👀😂

[outbreak_monkey]

So I stream to YouTube. I use their 1440p key. My upload is 22mbps. I have mine set to 12, 500 kbps in OBS. Should I try 18, 000 for better quality? I have RTX 4070 12 GB card AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

[hulkss_]

whats the difference between connecting to twitch on obs and just using stream key? what do i gain for connecting to twitch?

[brooklyn]

Hi I’m having issues with input delay on stream everything seems to be fine In obs but when I bring up my stream is delayed by like 10 seconds anyway how to fix this?

[fishbutfast]

Do you have a solution for reducing the fps drop when recording with obs? My fps goes from 100 to 30 when i record.

[Blobert_]

4:43 you say it allows you to choose what sounds are saved in the vod, how do i do that?

[totalwar]

scam this settings for stupid users. not for stream and video