OBS Game Streaming Performance Boost with Intel Quicksync
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts all right guys
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so as you know streaming can be hard due to stuff like system overhead and you're
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not only playing a demanding game but you're encoding it and streaming it and
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that's probably not all you're probably playing music programs voice chat
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programs and if you're like me you have a browser with at least a bucket worth
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of tabs open this can be hard on your processor enter OBS with quicksync using
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quicksync instead of x264 will allow you to move your encoding processing off of
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your processor and onto your igpu which is actually still part of your processor
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but when you're normally streaming if you have a graphics card it'll use your processor and your graphics card and
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your igpu just sits there doing a whole lot of nothing being able to utilize
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this part of your processor is going to take some stress off the rest of your
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processor and allow it to do other things performance- wise it's actually
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pretty good but you're going to have to remember that this is called quick sync
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not like looks amazingly beautiful sync it's not going to look quite as good on
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the other end of the stream but it will be easier for you to run so maybe if
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you're pushing some really hard to run game and doing a bunch of other things at the time and it's going to chug on
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the other end if you run Quicks sync if it looks better because it's not lagging
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that's going to be a big benefit but the actual picture quality probably won't be
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as good as something like x264 the requirements aren't too bad
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you're going going need an Intel CPU which should have probably been pretty self-explanatory you should probably
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update your drivers and your BIOS as well and you're going to need OBS as
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that's a software that you have to run to check to make sure that your processor is compatible with quicksync
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you just Google the name of your processor so say 2600k go to the arc.
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Intel.com link and then do a crlf for quick it'll jump right to it and it'll
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say yes or no in a blue highlighted box right beside it pretty straightforward
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at least on a Seuss motherboards how you'll set it up in the BIOS level is to
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press F7 to go into advanced BIOS then go over to
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Advanced jump into Graphics
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configuration go down to CPU Graphics
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multim Monitor and change that to enabled that's all you'll need so after
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doing that just press F10 enter and you're good to go once you're done
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setting up your BIOS you're going to jump into your computer right click on your desktop and click on screen
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resolution then all you have to do is Click detect and find the display that
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is powered by your igpu it'll say Intel Graphics whatever number tell to try to
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connect on VGA anyways uh apply that
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setting before you can actually do anything else jump back to your main Monitor and tell it to extend these
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displays instead of just showing on desktop one after that click keep
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changes and you'll be good to go doing that last step is very important if you
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haven't done that last step properly OBS will allow you to select quick sync but
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it won't actually work and will just spit out an error so to select Quicks
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sync properly just go into OBS and then go into settings go to encoding and then
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change the radio button from X2 64 over to quicksync as long as you're not
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streaming at the time of changing this it'll work perfectly fine the next time
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you start streaming it'll be streaming through quicksync all right guys I think
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this whole setup is pretty cool I like quicksync my biggest problem with
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quicksync is that it's not in enough stuff hate me as much as you will but
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I'm an expit guy not necessarily an OBS guy so I'm not necessarily going to be
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