How To FIX Your Laggy Twitch Stream (Best Encoder, Bitrate Settings, And More)

If you're struggling to fix your laggy stream, then the first step is to understand what type of lag or stuttering is happening to your stream!
This video talks about how to figure out what is causing your laggy stream, and also how to fix dropped frames, lagged frames, and skipped frames! While also understanding what the best bitrate settings and best encoder settings are for your stream.
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What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
For more information visit this Bitrate graph: stream.twitch.tv/
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Fix Laggy Streams And BEST Settings To Stream In 2024
0:47 Sponsor Segment
1:30 How To Fix Laggy Streams
2:00 What Are Dropped, Skipped, And Lagged Frames?
2:24 How To Fix Dropped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
2:47 How To Fix Lagged Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
3:11 How To Fix Skipped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
4:04 Best Resolution And Framerate To Stream At In 2024
5:20 Should you use Simple Or Advanced Output Settings In OBS?
5:35 What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming In 2024
5:55 What Is Twitch's Bitrate Cap?
6:08 How To Test Your Upload Speed?
6:19 Best Bitrate For Streaming To KZbin
6:53 What Video Encoder To Use for Streaming In 2024?
7:10 When To Use Nvidia Nvenc Encoder For Streaming
7:27 When To Use x264 Encoder For Streaming
7:33 When To Use AV1 Encoder For Streaming
7:51 What Encoder Preset To Use For Streaming
8:10 What Advanced Settings In OBS Matter For Streaming?
8:20 What Rate Control Setting To Use For Streaming?
8:28 Should You Use The Twitch VoD Track?
8:45 How To Run A Test Stream To Twitch
9:18 How To Run A Test Stream To KZbin
9:35 How To Test Which Twitch Server Is Best For You
10:35 How to select specific Twitch servers
10:58 How to turn off Dynamic Bitrate In OBS and Streamlabs
What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?
The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.
The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable
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[@StreamScheme]

Hope everyone is having a lovely month! Sorry for the gap in uploads, becoming a Dad has meant making sure I focus on family a lot more! Trying to learn balance, and we will get there!

[@jasminecaulden1089]

Congratulations on becoming a Daddy lol, I became a grandmother again in Dec. I was wondering if you could do some video's about setups when you're not gaming. I use twitch as a learning tool. I stream blender, friends and others come in and help me learn my way around it. It's easier then just watching video's or reading websites as they can see what I'm doing in real time and give help in real time. I already know my computer is not top of the line. It's similar to an i5 with 32 gigs of ram and an nvidia 650 (really old lol) graphics card, which only has 1 gig of vram. I can't even use the latest OBS cause of my card, I have to use the 27.2.4 cause of something that was changed in the newer versions of OBS.

[@EagleEyeHunts]

Streamer here who is becoming a dad in 3 months! I feel you bro, we appreciate any content you put out there! Much love and peace to your family! :)

[@AdaptableFox]

Father of a 2&4 year old girls. It is a balancing act for sure. Most of my streams are confined to nap times or in the evening. With how self reflective you are with your work, I'm sure you'll knock parenting out of the park!

[@UnbotheredBanana]

Congrats bro I love your content it’s amazingly helpful for anybody

[@billybilliams]

This video was right on time... no need for apologies! You're a legend Eljay!

[@AdaptableFox]

I just wanted to say thank you for your content Eljay. I have been subscribed for a couple years, but never really applied the lessons. At the beginning of this year I decided to apply myself. I have begun making youtube shorts and long form and it really helped to make my streams have purpose when I go live even if there are no viewers. I also added follower goals on screen using your guide and I have had followers each time I've gone live when I had none for a couple months even if i had a few people watching at a time. 🍻

[@Adr_Voids]

Very nice video, especially the server thingy, the dynamic bitrate and the test stream, i did not know about these Thank you for making these videos it helps a lot

[@ATLgamingZ6]

I’m a new streamer, I went out and spent a boat load on my set up, I have Omen 16 64gb I9 12900hx 4tb ssd and I was still getting blurry streams. This video helped a ton

[@hummisman]

This video helped so much. I appreciate it a lot since I have a low end PC that absolutely REQUIRES these settings to be changed if I want to stream, espeically on my KZbin chanel, so thank you SO MUCH.

[@tangopapadelta6058]

Thank you! Finally a comprehensive, yet concise, explanation and solution to my streaming quality issues! You have no idea how hard this was to find.

[@AuroraButterflyx]

Some helpful tips. Planning to get back into streaming once I get fibre internet. Fairly excited ❤

[@JD_DevilnoobF1]

4:05 this is probably the main reason I will ALWAYS pick your videos over anyone else 💙

[@gdubhz]

very helpful thank you so much sir!

[@jesusofbullets]

Holy hell, you've saved my streams. Take my like!

[@YozoraKuroboshi]

Wow this was just what I needed

[@R0yalBunny]

Hi Eljay! Big fan! Watching your stuff has helped me in the way i think about streaming and hope to start my youtube journey soon!

[@WalmartThor]

Thank you so much. I just bought a beefy PC so I could stop using my laptop and I was still running into issues. I think this video will be a great help.

[@TechyCatz]

did it help?

[@WalmartThor]

@@TechyCatz it did

[@dcorn3225]

4:26 , this blew my mind, I thought the base canvase was whatever my monitor was for my game, I have been using 1440p this entire time.. gonna change this for tomorrows stream hope this removes the pixelation that occurs randomly. Thank you so much!

[@AdaptableFox]

I was going to do research on this today cause my Camo app running iPad camera keeps falling behind. GG!

[@MrKelJar]

Mate. This was good.

[@lewis19r]

Somewhere through this video you fixed my issue. Tested a live stream and it all went smoothly no skips, frame drops. Hopefully it goes good with the boys.

[@xunboundsz-_-7777]

you using SIMPLE output or ADVANCED?

[@geraldsalas3213]

is rtx 3070 8gb a good gpu for competative 1440p gaming like warzone. apex, valo, cs2? not sure if 8gb while streaming and gaming is enough

[@mayeesahplays]

This helped me fix my gameplay footage! You are a lifesaver! I have been binge watching your content and I am learning so much! Thank you for making amazing, entertaining, and concise content! I just had a quick question--I know you've gone over webcam settings, but I was wondering what the best OBS settings for A DSLR camera are? I'm shooting on my Sony A7SIII at XAVC S HD, 60fps, and I still experience some lag between my audio and video (most notable when I'm editing my recorded streams later). How do I fix this?

[@StreamScheme]

My audio comes in faster than my camera, its pretty normal due to video requiring more encoding. I set my mic to its own solo track for recording, and then delay the track by 130ms and that syncs it back up. You could lower the camera resolution to 720p and it might help, or potentially try a different capture card if yours is offbrand. Loads of options.

[@mayeesahplays]

@@StreamScheme Thank you so much! I'll try delaying my XLR mic in the advanced audio properties in OBS by 130 ms and play around with it until it syncs back up! I'm using the Elgato HD60 S right now, but I'm looking into investing in the Bridge Cast X! The idea of controlling all of my audio inputs in one piece of gear seems like a dream (I'm using a behringer mixer right now and It's been a nightmare to navigate)! As well as having my camera and capture card also feeding in through a single piece of gear instead of 3+ peices of equipment. Are there any major notable differences in capture card quality between the two?

[@marrgzzz]

This man saved my streams

[@masresta]

Hello mister i have a question my pc is ryzen 5 3600 and my gpu is gtx 1660 super what best setting for my obs and can i have a smaller size of the output file ?? Btw iam sorry if my english is so bad

[@HomeGrownWesley]

Thank you very much😅

[@Dixie612Normous]

These videos are the best.

[@n0tzade]

Hey i was wondering if i could use a laptop to setup my stream setup. I stream on xbox but im currently using my phone to try setup alerts and stuff but it just doesnt work.

[@Jwebbplayz]

On a dual pc setup would we copy these verbatim? Meaning, leave encoder “for me” cause I play on AMD GPU but stream with strix 2070 oc in stream pc. I’m assuming just match the systems so to speak, I’m only casting over display capture from game pc “thru capture card” to stream pc.

[@Mr_Mos__]

Twitch could just follow KZbin and accept a higher bitrate on their end. Btw one tip: you might have problems with your microphone sounding „muffled” (from time to time). It took me a long time to figure out that it’s caused by RNNoise, so if you have the same problem, that might be a fix.

[@StunnaYT-]

I WAS LOSING MY MIND MY MICROPHONE sounds good but in obs it kept sounding like 💩 i was getting frustrated took off all my filters but rnnoise. And it still sounds bad every now and then.. speex sounds bad though. What should i do?

[@TKleinschmidt]

Thanks for the video! For future occasions: The image at 6:04 is wrong. 6000 bits is not 6 megabit. its 6 kilobit. i guess you meant to say that 6000 kps is 6 mbps.

[@PettyVoltage0414]

Recently some games I play on PC that have voice chat stops working through my headphones and recording.. do you know how to fix?

[@PRINCMILAN]

Tmmrw i should pick up my new used pc specs are gtx 1070 8gb and i5 4460 my question is can i stream and play warzone, pubg, valorant on this pc?

[@donaldbott8331]

i dont have the option to enable bandwidth test mode. I have had to use the ?bandwidth test that you add to the stream key. I use obs version 30.0.2

[@Recklessplayergaming]

I was just hearing about twitch vod from streamers because they were playing music that would normally get Copied and you mentioned it doesn’t stop you from copyright stuff.. now I need to know more

[@alisonxra]

I know someone with like 350 followers who always uses copyright music for the past 3 years. I’m so scared 😨 I use own3rd pro music. I’m surprised they haven’t gotten in trouble.

[@StreamScheme]

Last weeks video

[@GamesxDonexRight]

So if I subscribe to owned for a bit and then don't resub a couple of months down the line, do I lose access to those graphics and what not

[@ssmokiee1827]

I’ve tried for so long to fix it. I honestly might give up on streaming, no matter what I do I can’t put my bitrate any higher than 3k. If I do my stream lags so hard, even on 3k it’s at like 15fps. Idk what to do atp

[@Ep27_]

Is it possible to stream on 1 twitch account from 2 diff psn accounts. Rn it’s linked to my main. But I’m grinding on my alt right now and still wanna stream? Is that possible?

[@Nyc_llynx]

does this also apply to recording

[@LiamGreenfield-ul3xl]

yes thank you

[@TKM12]

what bitratte should i do for reacting and roblox

[@WalmartThor]

Dynamic bitrate kidnapped my dog for ransom during my last stream. Thanks for the heads up to turn it off.

[@StreamScheme]

Hes the worst, dynamic bitrate tried to object at my wedding

[@theimmoralcookie6344]

Bruh, the Discord ping when you drop the bomb made me look through my Discord messages.

[@MilanHraje]

yooo whats up.. i try to stream on twitch.. and my sound is repeated and lagging so much . can u help ?

[@mattc487]

Could you PLEASE make a video of how to set up TriggerFyre in OBS then?!? I only went to SLOBS so I could have TF rewards available as they wouldnt come up in OBS!

[@DaveCeeRocker]

This might be unrelated but i want to ask, why when i go live does twitch sometimes only notify followers as late as 30 mins into my stream that im now live? is this anything to do with OBS or is it a twitch thing? I always get people saying they weren't notified when they say that they have notifs enabled! super thanks for all your vids 🔥

[@StreamScheme]

It means you’re not consistent enough, likely they don’t know if you’ll stay live, how long, when, etc We found if you always go live the same days at the same time, and do a minimum of 3 hours, twitch sends notifications out, otherwise it gets spotty. Twitch doesn’t send go lives out unless they know you’re staying live. The other reason is people haven’t been staying and enjoying the stream so it stops recommending the stream to them unless they turn on notifications.

[@Pubcrawler644]

Gonna try this and see if it solves my encoder overloaded error Not sure why i keep getting it. Use nvenc from my 3070 And CPU is Ryzen 9 5900x so should have enough power Its very frustrating

[@KekoDeLoco]

The link for the bitrate graph doesn't work :(

[@TKM12]

the first one has changed the size of my streams what can i do

[@Hypnaa]

Will this work for my obs recording in general? I’m not sure if it’s my ultra wide or just settings.having a hard time.

[@StreamScheme]

Yes and no, for recording it is different but I made a video on that a few weeks ago :)

[@mikio7256]

My streaming pc is i7-8700 2060super and my network is 1T upload 8000bitrate, but why my stream still blurry on twitch? is my spec bad? I need to chage 4060 for AV1? In youtube I stream on 1080p is blurry, but stream on 1440p everything will fine no pixel.

[@LeoCoyote1685]

What do you do if you don't have a graphics card? Difficult to follow but great results!

[@StreamScheme]

Probably work on getting one

[@Jwebbplayz]

I have 1gb up n down with fiber & dual game setup (stream/game pc) twitch advisor is crying saying my bitrate is too high @ 6000? Unstable???? What’s this all about? What does twitch want?

[@stevestop]

whats more important on the bandwidth test, Quality or RTT? for me, Option has 39ms RTT and 99 Quality, but option 2 has 23ms RTT and 90 Quality

[@eljayem]

It’s a balance, likely you won’t have issues with either server though

[@fivestargeneral8241]

my quality is fine with dynamic bitrate enabled, never had it drop my frames. im wondering if its just your build that does that compared to others. cause it works fine for me.

[@StreamScheme]

No, it’s a common problem. Many people struggle with it.

[@inyozz]

DAWG, my bandwith is 10k+ right? RTT is 8ms.. BUT MY QUALITY IS 0... WHY? the quality on every single server test is below 30, not one goes above. 90% of them are 0, is there any reason why PLEASE help

[@onlyhalfhuman4815]

i dont have the enable test mode or whatever in stream,.....

[@Deku-bt8cl]

I have a 4060 ti and a 13900k cpu.. would I actually be better off using x264 then Nvenc? I ask just cause the cpu is quite strong.. like is the 4060 bottlenecked so go with x264?

[@Unsiv]

Get better wifi

[@jaymiester5892]

been trying to join your discord for a while but i just constantly get hit with, invite invalid =/

[@endlessnutellatoast]

so after i do the test, what exactly do i do with the information i collect from the stats window? i'm not sure what i am looking for.

[@endlessnutellatoast]

example as of right now it shows i miss 145/800k frames, is that good? is that bad?

[@StreamScheme]

The test will say how you're missing those frames, are they dropped, skipped or lagged? And then the ENTIRE next segment talks about how to solve those things and whats causing them. Then the entire next segment goes through the settings.

[@Drizplayz]

I have 15mps upload speed and for some reason my twitch stream wont go above 6200kbps when i set it to 8000kbps

[@val6744]

im from indonesia, and theres 2 indonesian server, both of them have best bandwidth and rtt but 0 quality. what should i do here?

[@StreamScheme]

Become a youtuber :) record and edit everything offline, grow an audience that way.

[@Natri1st]

NVIDIA NVENC H.264 or NVIDIA NVENC HEVC? Help pls

[@GrazzleYT]

how good of a pc do you need? I have good internet speed and I have good parts that even popular stream dont have yet my frames keep dropping

[@StreamScheme]

Don’t need anything amazing, as I said dropped frames are internet so it’s your stability that’s the issue

[@GrazzleYT]

@@StreamSchemeOk thank you!

[@Mrequine1]

I seam to be having problems with reedem and so laging or the get stuck on the screen

[@ZachtheCuber]

hey it says the discord link has expired. How do I join without that happening

[@StreamScheme]

It’s not expired so no clue, what’s your username?

[@akadain]

Wait, 6k is a soft cap, and I can go higher? I have around 900 on upload. So I can go higher?

[@StreamScheme]

Yep, as I say in the video 6000 is soft, 8000 is hard, but you need wiggle room so don't set 8000.

[@IlluminousIsHere]

I still get dropped frames no matter what i do, I stream at 1080p 60fps, and I tried everything, at this point, I think I need to downscale to 720 60fps

[@rangry1386]

So in frames missed due to rendering lag I have 8 out of like 20000 something is that really an issue

[@StreamScheme]

Likely not :)

[@Flose_]

Hey- I’ve been streaming for around 2 weeks now just about to hit 50 followed I get a few people chatting in my stream and I get around 5-10 views around in my streanms and I get around 3 new followers

[@daKnighty]

The dynamic Bitrate was already off for me, but i still had the issue, why? My internet speed is not the problem, everything else is set to what it needs to be

[@StreamScheme]

Check your stats panel. If it’s dropped frames then yeah it’s your internet and the video covers fixes. If it’s the other twice well the video covers those too.

[@daKnighty]

@@StreamScheme Hey, firstly thanks for answering, but i checked the stats panel and made a test on that twitch test thingy but everything says great and i have no dropped frames anywhere, but still when my game moves it pixelated and when its still it looks fine, could it be twitchs fault? I tried it with 6000kbits and i have 40mbit upload so that should be fine, right?

[@StreamScheme]

That’s a bitrate issue, pixelation is almost always a bitrate issue, likely you need to lower your overall settings down to 720 and 30 then 6000 bitrate As I said, lots of motion go 720.

[@fcfdroid]

Cool 😎

[@espada9000]

I don't get it why did he save the dynamic bit rate settings for last?

[@StreamScheme]

Because it’s in its own section off to the side, everything is structured so someone learns perfectly step by step by step.

[@espada9000]

@@StreamScheme Well at the end of the day mines was already toggled off so I'm all good.

[@CertLuck]

Having a dropped frames and skipped frames issues when I stream games over 120 fps I have a download of 900 Mbps and upload of 900 Mbps also please help

[@CertLuck]

These are my PC Spec Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 gigabytes RAM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 1TB SSD Display 240hz 2560x1440

[@StreamScheme]

I covered what to change and what to check. Start with what’s shown in the video.

[@004-qh4wj]

Реально крутой канал !

[@Zero-uh5vb]

Can you do a video on only recording videos only please

[@StreamScheme]

Made it weeks ago

[@Jessica_Rose131]

What about those who use MacBook with the m2 or m3 pro max chip

[@StreamScheme]

No idea, I couldn’t imagine streaming from a laptop

[@YOOOOOOOOOOMAMA]

11:15 💀🤣🤙🏻👍🏻

[@MuseR.]

OMG DYNAMIC BITRATE?!!!1!1!!

[@malachimeredith22]

Mine was already off

[@Nerdvskids]

Obs keeps crashing on me

[@BATTLEDUTY-X]

Sweet as

[@iUseYoutube_]

sadly i got super slow internet, so i gotta work with what i got

[@StreamScheme]

I’d focus on offline recordings and making KZbin videos than

[@amiranger]

hello

[@Snorpix]

What if I don't have graphics card in my laptop?😂😂

[@MikaelGuggenheim]

Damn I got stressed by this. Did you start speaking quicker a f quicker or was that just me getting totally stressed out?

[@BblusStar]

The fuck are you talking about? Let me rewatch this.

[@allisonharris4498]

This didn’t help any audio setting issues I was having >:(

[@StreamScheme]

I’d say one of the videos about audio is probably going to be that, not the technical settings to stop lagg.

[@VonRousterhause_]

Completely off-topic. The hat you’re wearing in your thumbnail. I own one exactly like it. And since my brain. Where did that hat come from. Oh mow mee!Wishing you good stuff, in your future endeavors. And the topic for a yt video. Not to appear creepy on twitch. Idk like what you might want to avoid I DK random thought . TTFN.

[@InnitOrbit_]

Second!

[@amiranger]

[@iconfusinq8310]

my internetspeed is good my pc is high end but still get only blurry shit i've tried everything i can't make it workface

[@Unsiv]

Still issue