So I've been starting to get interested in Streaming games on Twitch.tv, I was just wondering what kind of internet speed are required. Mine isn't great, but would some changes to settings in Xsplit make it easier to stream smoothly?

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A better upload rate.

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decent.

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At least 1mbps upload speed...

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I don't really know since I haven't done much, I've streamed live drawing and things wnet smoothly, but gaming streaming gets a bit cranky :/

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You could probably do it with 1k up but you really want at least 2k.
I haven't streamed yet, that's just what i assume from the numbers.

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Depends on what quality uou want to stream at.

As people have said you will want at least a megabit up maybe even two.
But the main hurdle is normally the computer rather than the uppload speed. unless you are stuck in rural england like me.

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Yeah, you can be fine with as low as 1-2mb unless you want to stream in HD.

But as he stated, your computer is the biggest issue, you can expect a bare minimum of 50% reduction in framerate in basically anything you're streaming, regardless of the resource usage of the game. That can be extremely rough on your own performance.

Honestly, just experiment, you won't know until you try and it's far from hard to set up in most cases. I've not had much experience with xsplit admittedly, I tried it at one point and being unwilling to pay out to stream to a whopping two friends, the only free option at the time was Flash Media Encoder, which I've never had a positive relationship with. That may have changed.

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yeahnottrue... use DXTory and you'll actually have very little impact on your FPS... unless you are recording while streaming.

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Huh, I hadn't heard of it, it does sound interesting.

It's pretty pricey though for personal use, and I loathe watermarks. Otherwise seems like a good option, I'll at least try the demo for sure.

Edit: With a bit of reading it really sounds dependent on a whole pile of variables, the game in question being a big one. DXTory seems to greatly improve streaming of some games and greatly detriment just as many, so I dunno. Each their own.

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never really had any problem streaming with DXTory... but that could very well be game dependent - not every game reacts positive to the way such tools hook into the framebuffer.

and yeah it's expensive, but it's also a hell of a lot better than e.g. FRAPS.

recording raw with DXTory on multiple drives has not as much of an impact on framerate than recording on a single drive with FRAPS... :3

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kinda what he said... it depends on resolution, sound quality and compression.
you can do 720p/24 with a 1Mbps line easy though... I've got XSplit set to VBV-Max 700kbps; DXTory as the video-source. :)

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Hmm as my source I was just using Xsplits screen capture and took my whole 1920x1280 screen. My upload is only about .55MB/s. Is that a problem? What settings should I try to stream it with that quality?

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55MB/s? that would be at least 440Mbit/s upstream... kinda unlikely ;) (you also probably mean 1920x1080)

with 55kb/s you would be around half an MBit... so I'd recommend trying with about 400kbps.

the XSplit screen capture works but will have quite a large impact on performance.

with DXTory it doesn't really matter what res you are playing on - you can set the streaming / recording resolution to be different.

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56k

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So I've got like half a meg upload speed according to speedtest, and about the same when I use the bandwidth tester in Xsplit. Any settings/quality suggestions that I should use, or is it hopeless with such as low speed?

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it is possible, but quality would be a great concern in most modern games would terrible... well it is not a problem for old games with low resolution tho... But with 512mb upload you can stream even StarCraft 2... it would be just blurry ;]

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it kinda depends on the resolution - if you stream low res but with less compression you'll get a better picture than high res with heavy compression.

at least that's my experience... :3

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Just for reference if your connection is a DSL line make sure you don't exceed 80% of your total upload speed otherwise your download speed will decrease dramatically and cause your connection to become unbearable.

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like 1mb or more on upload speed at minimum

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1Billion/1Billion!

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If your playing games online and streaming at the sametime I'd say 2mb or higher upload connection.. If you want to stream mostly single player 512K minimum but quality won't be amazing of course.

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