My Twitch & My YouTube Gaming LIVE Streams

[medicnick83]

On a side note, I had some major pc lag issues last night. At first I thought it's due to watching youtube at 720p, but then I looked at my task manager and notice the weirdest thing.

There was a Dota 2 .dll file using 100% of my hdd, which is very peculiar considering I haven't opened Steam and it wasn't running in the background.

Upon further investigation I noticed a few more .dll dota 2 files running, using internet bandwidth.

Needless to say I was tired and decided to go sleep instead of trying to solve that mystery.

Think I might just format my pc this weekend, probably the easiest way to solving windows 10 related problems.

Thanks again for watching and interacting with me last night in the Stream! Hoping you pop in some more.

 

[Purply]

I liked that other dude you played with, the one from overseas, super funny guy haha

Had me in stitches a few times.

 

[medicnick83]

I liked that other dude you played with, the one from overseas, super funny guy haha

Had me in stitches a few times.

Mr_Smo; Radmandel & VTwinvlogster

They are an awesome bunch to play games with, or just generally chat - there are more, you welcome to join us on Discord if you want.

 

[Soul Assassin]

You definitely need to play something a bit more high energy.

 

[medicnick83]

You definitely need to play something a bit more high energy.

Bud! Sometimes, the sessions in The Division can get HECTIC!
I think it's because (and we did mention this alot) most players are playing "The Last Stand" - the same thing happened when "Survival" came out - everyone played that, then the novelity wore off and the DZ was full of crazy ass people again.

Now it's nice to explore the DZ, farm a bit, upgrade / edit / change characters etc.

 

[Purply]

On origin you can currently play BF1 for free, but only for 3 days

The biggest downside is the 50-60GB download size.

Might be worth looking at before buying it.

 

[medicnick83]

On origin you can currently play BF1 for free, but only for 3 days

The biggest downside is the 50-60GB download size.

Might be worth looking at before buying it.

I want it regardless! Just, that irritating thing called Finances.

Battlefield 1
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Gold Edition
Torment: Tides of Numenera

These 3, and others are definitely on my WISH LIST and obviously, on my "TO STREAM" list.

 

[Purply]

I got my BF1 off CDKeys for 500 bucks, worth every cent!

Just look at the new DLC being released 14 March, the graphics is unreal

https://youtu.be/msXl2ZybwTk

 

[Stillie]

i would follow but u dont play the games i enjoy watching.... i will follow just because u South african and every South african needs as much help to get into the streaming business.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Have you tested streaming directly from the GeForce Experience program.

 

[medicnick83]

i would follow but u dont play the games i enjoy watching.... i will follow just because u South african and every South african needs as much help to get into the streaming business.

Thanks for that, but on that note, what games are those?

Have you tested streaming directly from the GeForce Experience program.

I did try, had endless issues.

 

[Soul Assassin]

[video=youtube;pxqaz-0nMUk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqaz-0nMUk[/video]

You can watch from 2:07:20 to see the frame rate issue I was talking about and from 2:15:00 to hear the mic, specifically 2:15:09.

 

[medicnick83]

Yeap, I'm going to have to play with the mic settings.
I've dropped it to -7.2DB

Will test tonight.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Yeap, I'm going to have to play with the mic settings.
I've dropped it to -7.2DB

Will test tonight.

For future reference this is the thread I mentioned:

Cheap desktop microphone

But I'm sure if you get the settings right your headset will be much better.

 

[medicnick83]

Some updates:

• I think I have fixed the MIC issue.
• I am being told that users are not getting notifications when I "GO LIVE!" - I can't find a way to fix this - I think it's in your settings.
• I have disabled my Twitch account which means I need to update the "API" for Streamlabs and I have done that for the WISH LIST and DONATIONS option - someone here asked me to fix that ASAP which I have done so if you wanna donate, go for it! haha - however, if you don't have access to that stuff, do contact me and we can do an alternative way.
• I'm trying to find a way to get "1080p" quality but struggling with that.
• I enabled the NVENG option and the CPU usage dropped from 30% to 3%
• Had a buddy watch my streams last night (all of them) and he said it was PERFECT

With that said, please note that I"m really trying to sort out the technical issues first before I do anything / concentrate on anything else.
I honestly feel like I'm starting from scratch using a platform that doesn't make anyone's life EASIER - like, with Twitch, when you go live, people get notifications - with YOUTUBE - they don't and it doesn't look like there is an option to enable it unless you HOST AN EVENT - for me, every stream is an event.

• Struggling to get to 100 subscribers - that's when apparently you can really start editing stuff on the profile (YouTube Gaming LIVE!) which you didn't have on Twitch - so it's not really geared towards customization and gamers IMO.

Any thoughts, comments, ideas or suggestions, please let me know.

 

[medicnick83]

After a massive struggle - I've fixed the "SUBSCRIBER" and "DONATION" alerts.

The tests work - we just need to see if it works when I'm actually streaming.

Remember, bookmark this URL: https://gaming.youtube.com/user/medicnick83/live - I can only change it when I hit 100 subscribers

 

[Soul Assassin]

The mic no longer makes my ears bleed so that's good, I know you live with someone but try and speak the volume on stream like you would if a person was in front of you, don't talk too quiet, just your normal speaking volume.

Enabling NVENC seems to have fixed the frame rate issue I was talking about, you definitely want the GPU handling things.

I don't know if this is because you used host event but I received notifications on my iPad when you went live.

I personally am fine with 720P but what seems to be the problem getting 1080P to work?

Edit: Just watched the stream, much much better, smooth gameplay, zero dropped frames and no peaking mic.

 

[medicnick83]

I've got access to 1080p !!! Thanks Soul!

 

[Soul Assassin]

I've got access to 1080p !!! Thanks Soul!

You're welcome, you seem to be very close to your ideal settings which you can then backup for safe keeping.

Next step is to grow your library, you should always keep a lookout for open betas and free to play weekends.

 

[medicnick83]

You're welcome, you seem to be very close to your ideal settings which you can then backup for safe keeping.

Next step is to grow your library, you should always keep a lookout for open betas and free to play weekends.

I wont always play just "The Division" - I plan to play other games, I've always said that - I just need to get access to those games and such - the others I will play like "Forza Horizon 3" etc. Once I've got that sorted and I am happy with everything, I'm going to see what happens by playing / streaming from my XBOX ONE and then, if I get that PS4 I want so bad, that is next.