7 Powerful Tips For Streaming on a Low-End PC

Streaming on a low-end pc can cause a lot of stream performance issues. We are going to try to fix stream lag, dropped frames, game lag or game stuttering. To stream with a slow processor and an old graphics card, we'll have to fix some things that lower performance and we'll also have to set up very low stream settings. But! If you follow all these steps, I'm certain you'll at least see a difference. Enjoy!
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[@TheVideoNerd]

What machine are you streaming on? Let me know down here! 🤔

[@meghpatil7599]

I stream on my pc with old GPU and powerful cpu

[@kewrie1630]

I stream on my mind 😐 cause i don't have good PC ! 🤐

[@exoticalontop]

i stream on the worst crappiest pc that cant even run roblox

[@TheVideoNerd]

@@kewrie1630 right in the feels

[@dhelmamarie9900]

I'll thry this! Thanks. I'll be using an i5 7200u laptop with 4gb ram 😰

[@michaelmueller1457]

Amazing video. I had stream-breaking issues a week ago that I got somewhat under control, but not all the way. This video has elevated my stream to smooth and stutterless perfection.

[@TheVideoNerd]

Damn that's amazing :D

[@jrdchamp]

this was all very easy to understand. trying to get started streaming and this is a big help. i might try just recording videos first cuz i've heard thats easier but this video definitely brought me closer to being able to stream. thank you

[@bigthicc4465]

Thank you so much man! This helped a lot. I tried to stream Dirt 2.0 didn't understand why I was getting only 15fps when on ultra-low settings when I was playing on high when not streaming. Now my friends can watch me fly into a tree in glorious 60fps.

[@yohanesburg8028]

This is the exact Video I've been looking for! thank you so much, I'll make the switch when I get home

[@senryuwhistro7682]

bro you are a legend i was trying to stream for a month now and all the things you told has fixed all of them. Thanks man

[@lowercase3635]

I switched from laptop streaming on an Xbox from a capture card to a single gaming pc. This video helped a lot.

[@phassakorn9136]

Thanks for the tips! Helps me a lot in streaming :)

[@GottaRu5h]

Easy sub for u, and yes my game is a bit laggy but I'd prob be able to fix some ingame settings but u've improved my game by A LOT! Tysm

[@Aaron_Kirk]

Thank you. I have used your vids for all my previous SLOBS use. I am now ready to make to move to OBS Studio. Your master course on this subject will be extensively used to help me in this endeavor.

[@TheGrader600]

Bro! You are so helpful. Everyone watching this should show their appreciation. My man here doesn't patronise, doesn't act cocky and is clear and succint. Most other tutorial videos make you feel stupid or confusing. I love you TVN, helped me so much over the past year or so. Keep up good work brother!

[@TheVideoNerd]

Damn you've been here for a long time! Thanks a lot mate this means a lot :)

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Nice video, very helpful. Specially the obs on administrator tip

[@thesiams]

Thank you so much it helped me a lot!!! Im streaming on a lenovo think pad without a graphic card. Before I watched this tutorial it was really difficult. But not anymore thank you!

[@Windoxxed]

You taught me about ways to access and turn off programs more than helping me stream, thanks. I can use this info in the future.

[@kewrie1630]

❤️❤️❤️Man, your videos helped me a lot...even though, i don't have good pc for streaming ..i watch your videos and learn stuffs....i've made everything ready...just need a good PC for streaming!

[@TheVideoNerd]

You can save up for a budget pc build man! Get a decent nvidia card with NVENC, a pretty cheap processor etc. There are a lot of budget builds out there. Thanks for watching!

[@kewrie1630]

@@TheVideoNerd I am just 18 Lmao....I am deciding to do these all stuffs after my study! xD

[@DamnDani__]

I honestly have so many issues and come to your channel and idk why it’s taken me so long for sub. Thanks for your help!

[@AndySmithGerlockFilms]

Really fantastic info! Thank you

[@lawaaa00]

this is very helpful

[@VitaBoost360]

Hello what system do you use. I am having a quite heptic issue with my low end laptop.

[@Raven.Bloodrot]

I have a pretty mid range PC didn't really feel like I needed to do any of this but still applied some of the things here. I mostly play RPGs so setting the FPS to 30 I feel like will help a lot and running OBS as admin definitely will help.

[@SiredAudios]

@@DeveloVooshGWeb what about on mac??

[@ItsSoul]

Ok bro, ur the best I came for one issue I had and I didn’t even know I had more problems you just fixed.

[@SHAURYA_GAMER_7]

I found ur channel randomly and now watching ur videos has become a part of my daily routine

[@soildud7128]

my pc is a laptop that i got from hell

[@wsy1337]

same here

[@3bd9MAN]

same lol

[@daniel_mcc]

same

[@swifty1585]

Sane

[@karmatic7957]

“my pc is a laptop”

[@danielmoya5724]

This toaster , you got me on that one 😂

[@kemo_sabe_tv7523]

dude I know this is my first time commenting on your videos and also im very new to your content on KZbin .... but I just want you to know thumbs up like 100x your like so easy to understand and you've been a major help to my life and learning more about streaming '!

[@BlackRengokuYT]

This is really helpful im starting to stream this fall thanks for the tips

[@Dxtolonn]

This dude needs more subscribers

[@Dxtolonn]

@@mrfacts4-5 wdym??

[@jollytrolley9655]

I'm a couple years late, but thank you for the tip about swapping to OBS Studio. I noticed my CPU usage would sit around 22% now compared to Streamlabs OBS which would sit anywhere from 38% to 45%! That's an absolutely absurd difference of resources that can be spent on the game instead of the software while maintaining the same quality. I originally used Streamlabs because I liked the UI more, but it's sure as hell not worth it.

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especially considering its actually stolen lol

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[@todolast]

Thanks it works it works a lot

[@zackkk427]

Tnx alot....my video was messed up and all the other videos on you tube were not helping at all until i come up with this video.

[@FortnaytGad]

thanks a lot.. you just told me what ive been doing that is why my stream has low quality.. thanks thanks.

[@Podcastclipz36]

Ph!?

[@TheGuiltlessTV]

LOVE THIS ONE!

[@TheVideoNerd]

Thanks man :D

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[@imcuyl]

Thanks for helping me out!

[@NoahNTG]

Hi, I think this is just what I needed. I will come back and comment again if this works :)

[@Sam-yg5py]

Did it?

[@legionelite7538]

Guess it didn't work 😕

[@M00tion]

This is the only video on youtube that help me a lot u r a savior man Respect 🙌🙌

[@MrMason30127]

Thanks for the tips

[@Eagervul]

GUYS! I've been struggling with in-game latency for the past week and have been troubleshooting with lots and lots of obs settings. While most online tips do make a great improvement, the last thing that I did to make the game playable on a setup with obs and Geforce Now was... stupid, but it worked. I just made the preview in OBS as small as possible. To the point where it's less than 100 pixels wide (or just as small as you can get it). I don't know what happens, probably the GPU doesn't have to render and send as much data, or whatever, I don't know and I don't care, as long as I can stream in peace. Hope this may help those of you out there starting with low end pcs. And it's not inconvenient either, you can just build your scene however you want, lock it, and adjust the OBS modules to make the preview small. Incredibly easy tip, and it's made a huge difference to my performance in-game compared to any other setting taken individually. Good luck, and Have fun! :)

[@binogg4311]

Stream labs has something called performance mode where it just won’t show the capture screen in obs but it’s still being streamed

[@AnywayTJ]

thank you so much I used to average 30-40fps streaming now i average 50-60

[@stalkerhex6118]

yo this help a lot thx

[@9sswifty686]

Thanks bro hood bless you and your family thank you soo much for helping me

[@zenmorte2793]

You give very good advices and I like your accent, also your voice meter video saved me :D

[@TheVideoNerd]

Wow, thanks!

[@meghpatil7599]

Looked like alpha gaming vibes but with TVN style nice vid needed it

[@TheVideoNerd]

Haha I must've seen too many of his vids lol You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@TheGrader600]

No... alpha gaming has a cocky host who looks down on you. Not this guy

[@TheGuiltlessTV]

@@TheGrader600 so true! :D

[@skyzone7792]

@@TheGrader600 he is not cocky bruv

[@dadolphinplayz]

thank you for this guide! i can now finally have my model up at a 60fps stream while my games are still running at 120 fps

[@whyeverything9533]

I am here in 2021 looking at this video and this helped A LOT, i have a low end pc and every time i stream Valorant it lags because of the program and settings i used for streaming. I got 10fps at first but after this video i got 60 fps. I hope to see you as one of the top people for helping people with their streams!

[@SiameseOnMC]

Hi 2021 man I am from 2022

[@NewNova88]

I really think that for streaming, internet speed is way, WAY more important than performance. Of course, your perfs may be a bottleneck, but it is generally connection. If your PC is old, try stream old video games on emulators, many old PC can run that AND stream them without any problem. But if you have too low internet (below 1Mbps) then it will be hard to do quality stream, in the technical way.

[@Pookiebear]

Literally just found this video and followed everything did a speed test and found that my upload speed was really really low. Not sure if I'll be able to stream with such a low bit rate

[@zaahid9384]

I swear half of the youtubers say that streamlabs is for low-end pc's and the other half says obs is better for low-end pc's

[@wizcodm]

So wich is for low end pc?

[@nipyxl]

@@wizcodm Yes.

[@ShawnFX]

@@wizcodm OBS according to these comments

[@notded9805]

that really helped me to stream thanks for the amazing advice :D

[@Virgilz_]

thanks for the vid! i tried to stream minecraft with my friends, but my computer almost crashed trying to stream and game at the same time. hopefully this will help me!

[@kyrios-gn]

I stream on my gaming desktop. Still would like to stream on another pc but that's the future lol Anyway, great video content!

[@TheVideoNerd]

Damn thanks for being a subscriber for 5+ months!

[@kyrios-gn]

@@TheVideoNerd hey man, if Ive seen your content before I would have been a subscriber longer than that. My OBS and VoiceMeeter is working cause of your video tutorials

[@prabal9]

using 8600k on 4.8ghz and gtx 1080 get extremley low fps in apex while streaming and weird fps drops in csgo sometimes.And sometime only the game lags and the streams works perefctly while the edge is open in background or using a second monitor

[@doug2655]

did you find a solution?

[@prabal9]

@@doug2655 yeah just cleaned my pc it helped a ton basically from 90 fps stutter to 250 fps smood af

[@prabal9]

@@doug2655 and clean means like literally cleaning from air blower

[@Arish]

Just wow!! THIS BOOSTED MY STREAMING QUALITY WITH NO LAG THANK YOU!!!!!

[@mrjsgaminglive1927]

Amazing Video Thanks a lot It helped me a ton... 😊😊♥♥♥

[@xsiner]

I have to use OBS because the other ones slow my PC down too much.

[@TheVideoNerd]

Yes it does, OBS is better for slower pc's :) Thanks for watching!

[@shawnbleeds]

Okay you know I always love your videos, but will a Dell OptiPlex 3020 SFF from 2014 running a Pentium G3240 3.1 GHz 2 core two threads with 1333 MHz dual channel 8GBs (DDR3) make sense?

[@TheVideoNerd]

Hey! Ye I know :D I think that'll be pretty hard to stream on.. :/ But you just have to test it. It's hard to say how your pc will perform. Did you try streaming?

[@kalpanamishra1472]

@@TheVideoNerd my specs are i5 3350m 2.80ghz , 8gb ram , amd 7500m 1gb gpu can i strean

[@guillermolopez3855]

This is brilliant!

[@EzePlayz]

Thank you for making this video it really helped me out with recording and streaming ( I haven't streamed yet but will think of streaming soo :) ) Go make more amazing video's for Content Creator and Streamers!

[@benbotai9257]

i didnt even stream gaming and my stream was lagging.

[@Apollyon47]

I record kingdom come, but my obs always not responding in 10 minutes. I have i7 Nvidia... Forgot around 2k up, 16gb ram. i already do the set as admin and follow every tutorial and still the same

[@TheVideoNerd]

That shouldn't happen. Are you sure your pc isn't affected with malware? Sometimes you have to do a complete reinstall of windows. I've done that multiple times in the past.

[@Apollyon47]

@@TheVideoNerd I already do that last week, checking virus etc and there's no virus

[@ivanastojkovic9097]

BROO,THANKYOU SOO MUCHH, you really don't understand how much this helped me :)) I Will apply all these tips, you just earned sub and like, keep up good work

[@tobygonzales6137]

Youre a BEAST, Thank you!!!!!!

[@straidg8590]

I’m streaming on the hp envy 20 all in one desktop.

[@melvenparmanum2378]

I have an envy too man. How does it run ?

[@thebosschicken3791]

2070 super and still need to turn on Performance mode

[@TheVideoNerd]

I also have a 2070 super :) thanks for being subscribed for 3 months!

[@thebosschicken3791]

The Video Nerd it’s a little annoying but I might switch to a OBS. Also it cuts my FPS by about 30% so very annoying

[@MuYonaXXV]

Thank You Bro.

[@ryanredd5337]

Thankyou this helped alot now I can finally stream

[@Ramsesamonra]

*I like your new haircut, you're cute like this 🥰👍*

[@Moogchungus]

I want to start streaming now but my gaming pc is arriving around may so I’m stuck with a standard laptop this actually helped tho I noticed that when I used obs it wasn’t as laggy and slow as stream labs so thanks👍🏽

[@kwine6696]

thank you sm!!!

[@arbabgillani9031]

very helping vedio bro keep it upsuch a real and fear person i see on youtube good work bro keep it up love from pakistan😍

[@skyorchidsdalisay8783]

Thank you so much.

[@DestinyTales]

Thank you

[@KatyDubu]

Already using OBS, but having trouble streaming a new mmo called Palia. I updated some settings based on your video. I'm going to try streaming tomorrow. Thanks for the tips!

[@baneofevil]

Thanks bro😊🖤

[@TheVideoNerd]

Welcome 😊

[@phobosgmd]

Great video tysm

[@Saleelthegoat]

Thanks a lot i play on a medium pc and i needed optimisations since i record my youtube videos while live so if i use 720p the quality of the video wont be good so i want to stream on 1080p . This video helped a lot

[@bigbrowgaming2309]

TLDR for people with high-end PC's experiencing these issues (I have a 3070 and high-end everything) would be to try running SLOBS as administrator too. That fixed literally all my issues.

[@TimeToSnitch]

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[@irhas6555]

Thanks

[@BigBlikky]

this was posted on my birthday!

[@Johnn7Cag3FN]

Thx❤

[@rhoedision_gaming9296]

thank you so much..this helps alot..sadly i have a low end pc..thank you so much

[@XertteD]

I never comment but this saved my stream, I didn’t know my encoder can use my amd. I didn’t even know I had it. Thank you.

[@jadenlawyer801]

Heeey the change graphics helped

[@susmitaekka7435]

thanks

[@tufanaslantas]

Thanks bro! i am using a i5 laptop

[@solleomsm4386]

Man, you are problalby a god or something like that

[@simonc1427]

Great video! I’m streaming on i5-9400f, rx 580, 16gb 3466mhz

[@TheVideoNerd]

thanks!

[@lustur]

Quality content 👍

[@oTWiSTeDXx]

Bro this video was a game changer for me and my current low end PC. Streamlabs OBS killed my CPU. Switched to OBS and like magic my stream is 200% better

[@oTWiSTeDXx]

@Greyman555 was on a diff PC , the CPU was Intel® Pentium® Processor E5800 2M Cache, 3.20 GHz, 800 MHz. Now my newer PC cpu is Intel core i7 960 @3.2ghz

[@toxeen327]

You know what increase your performance. Hitting that like button 😂

[@sidiper]

I just found out that you can crop your webcam at a new Scene in OBS then put it on your game screen. I'm using 320x240p webcam settings but it looks decent with my 720p stream and can help Low-Mid end PC gamers like me... x264 stream games with less FPS loss in game.

[@attacker_boi]

liked and subed nice vids

[@theoakbeard]

Aah brother, you really know how to make good videos.

[@levidebruyne]

I just subscibed en liked the video because al of the steps workt if inplayed in fortnite creatieve

[@TheCooledV]

Using these settings on my i5-9300H, GTX 1650 gaming laptop and its BUTTERY SMOOTH. I shared this video with my friends who are using MX110 graphics cards

[@kalpanamishra1472]

how many fps u get while streaming

[@stick-rfactory5092]

Great videosNerd, thanks!! Do you have any tutorials in Spanish?

[@kty420E]

thaaaaank you sooo much, i never read the tip to run it as administaor. i could run streams a few years ago but now it just was lagging as heck. why cant everyone say the simplest solution at first.

[@WEDZMERMUNJILUL]

tried to adapt most of the things you discussed here man, I'm using a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 model which is very low-end today and unfortunately, still can't even stream decently. I'm using streaming for work discussions or MS Excel tutorials. It's pretty hard...

[@linnpersson5598]

im using my school laptop, my passion for games and twitch is so big but im very bad put money wise and cannot afford my own or a better one in any way :,) so i will definitely try this tomorrow :)

[@cryptologic90]

Dude that might be the exact laptop i have holy crap!!

[@brauliodiaz3925]

The common issue that I have is that if I add anything to the sources of the stream, it goes super slow (and mind you the cpu is at most running at 50% without any programs on. I always have to restart my modem to stream. If I don't I have a laggy stream and the bitrate goes from 3k to 1k it's crazy.