Some stream platforms (Twitch, we’re looking at you here …) enforce their own bitrate limits. If you stream with a high bitrate (8000mbps) and your viewer’s download speed is fairly low (3mbps), then ultimately, they won’t be able to buffer your stream.

Your viewer’s download speed determines the streams they can watch. But the keyword here is THEORY … there are a couple of complications with just bumping your bitrate up to 1,000,000. In theory, the higher the rate, the better your stream will look. Does it seem whatever number you set your bitrate to, it still looks like you’re playing 1980’s Doom?! Let’s break it down.Īs it says on the tin, bitrate is the rate of bits (file information) sent from SLOBS to your stream per second. TL DR: Ensure your computer has a minimum of 8GB RAM and an I5 processor or higher! (You can check all of your system specs by heading to ‘System Information on your PC)Īh, the neverending complications of bitrate limits and streaming. The following numbers indicate the strength of the processor (the higher the number, the better the processor). That’s a lot of words and numbers that the majority of new streamers wouldn’t recognize! Don’t panic though, in short, you need to make sure you have an I5 processor or higher AMD Ryzen 5. Twitch officially recommends having an Intel Core i5-4670 processor or higher (or its AMD equivalent). Even then, it may not be enough, and 16GB of RAM would be our recommended way forward. To stream modern games (Warzone, Fortnite, Fifa), you should be looking at an absolute minimum of 8MB of installed RAM. This is essentially your computer’s short-term memory.

Streamlabs take up a LOT of CPU power while running, and without a system that can bear the load, you will start to see performance issues in your stream.Ī few bottleneck areas in a PC setup can negatively impact your stream quality and causes lag in Streamlabs OBS Those are the RAM, CPU, and GPU. Here’s the sad truth of streaming it is power-hungry.

Streamlabs setting for low end pc