so you're a seasoned pc gamer wondering how to make your gaming experience more
social but without inviting people into
your house then you get the utterly unique and
one-of-a-kind idea to start streaming your gameplay you spring into action
preparing to show your battle station off to the world but what kind of setup
do you need to pull this off well hey guys
it shouldn't be surprising but an upper range gaming pc is often a good choice
for streaming but there are hardware considerations for streaming that are a
little bit different typically gaming setups are built around
the GPU with your graphics card often being the deciding factor in how nice
your games will look as long as the rest of your rig meets some kind of minimum
threshold but for streaming your CPU can
determine how your gameplay looks to your viewers be they on twitch or
another streaming platform but why is this
i mean we're still talking about how to get the best graphical quality right
well remember that the work of rendering the game that is the act of actually
creating the image has already been done by your graphics card it's then your CPU
that takes that rendered image and transcodes it into a video format that
can be easily sent over the internet and displayed by your viewers web browsers
and if you've ever edited video regularly you'll probably already know
that having a more powerful CPU typically makes video encoding a much
easier job now since transcoding is easily split
amongst multiple CPU cores oh by the way
don't forget you still have to run the game too it is to your advantage to get
a CPU with more cores and more threads
especially if you want to stream at 1080p 60fps instead of 720p
though it should be noted that as with anything there is a point of diminishing
returns and an 18 core processor might not be worth the extra price if you want
a specific recommendation a modern 6 core core i7 or more or AMD ryzen 7
processor or better in your gaming rig should make it a very capable streaming
machine some streamers though actually decide to go a step further and use a
second pc to handle all the streaming tasks using their first rig strictly for
actual gaming this can especially make sense if you
already have an older tower lying around because it's a great way to stream
CPU-intensive games like starcraft or
total war without being concerned that your gameplay or your stream quality
will suffer as a result and one of the reasons this approach is so popular is
that your streaming pc doesn't have to be anything super fancy you might not
even need a dedicated graphics card you will need a good CPU
but because it's going to be handling streaming only you can probably get away
with a more basic four core four thread processor just make sure that you close
all your background programs and have only what you need to stream up and
running if you're running into trouble the other thing you'll need for your
dedicated streaming pc is a way to capture the video output from your
gaming machine and deliver it to the software that will encode and transmit
your stream along with any overlays and transitions that you desire
for pc gamers this can actually be done over your local network using the nvenc
hardware encoding engine behind NVIDIA's shadow play feature to send up to a 60
megabit stream of the game over Ethernet to your secondary box where CPU encoding
will turn it into a high quality 5.5 megabit stream compatible with twitch tv
but if your pc hardware doesn't support
this method or if you're streaming from another device like a game console
the go to is a capture card a modern usb
3 or pci express capture card will help prevent transmission problems and lag
compared to a usb 2 capture card but other than that you'll probably have to
read or watch reviews to determine exactly which model is best for your
needs whatever you get though make sure that it supports the resolution and
frame rate that you want to broadcast
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