If you're using VCE, NVENC or QSV, stop it. If people can't watch your stream, why stream at all, after all? Go over this (even to 2500) and you'll have more and more people buffering. Do it from the Help menu, and post the link it gives you here.Ģ000kbps is the recommended maximum for non-partners, based on user metrics released by Twitch a while back.

Seriously, we need it to be able to point out issues and see what's happening on the back end. I'd probably go with Bicubic (but test all of them!) as you're going with a power-of-two downscale essentially each 4 pixels become 1 pixel in the downscaled frame, which bicubic tends to work well with, and I believe can provide more clarity on text (one of the big problems with downscaling maintaining readability). The rescale methods (Bicubic/Lanczos) are more a matter of personal preference, and won't realistically cause a performance hit on any modern GPU. If you're set to 1080p and squash the source, then downscale that using the dropdown, you'll be taking twice the quality loss hit the in-preview squash-style downscale is a lower quality scaling method, and is individually per-source, so you'll get more artifacts and blur.ĭownscaling through the dropdown only will do a full-frame rescale post-compositing, which will help to maintain more relative image fidelity (think of it like a full-frame antialiasing).

If you're unable to do that, set the base resolution to 1280x720 and resize the source in the preview.

Set your OBS resolution to 2560x1440 if possible, capture native-size, and use the downscale dropdown for resizing to 720p before it gets sent out.

Streamlabs obs 720p 60fps settings