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Title: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: titanic3 on October 29, 2012, 11:18:36 AM

I have a:
Core2Duo E7500 2.93Ghz
Radeon 6870 1GB
4GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit
Verizon Fios with ~3.5MB/s download and ~1MB/s upload speed

If I try to stream games even the lowest quality, i still get major stutters and poor framerates to the point of unplayable. Is it my processor that's holding me back?

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: SilverZ06 on October 29, 2012, 11:46:41 AM

which games? I'd like to try them on my machine

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: titanic3 on October 29, 2012, 11:48:37 AM

Amnesia the Dark Descent and BF3. I get 60+ fps without stream on amnesia and 40-50fps on high in BF3

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: ACE on October 30, 2012, 11:49:54 AM

I would guess a better processor.  Not too sure though..

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: ACE on October 30, 2012, 12:00:38 PM

http://www.livestream.com/userguide/index.php?title=System_requirements. I googled and found this.

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: Spikes on October 30, 2012, 01:13:31 PM

Never tried streaming before but I would guess a better processor (possibly QC) and some more ram. I'd try it with my specs (in sig) for you but I have DSL so my up/down isn't great at all.

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: Krusty on October 30, 2012, 06:55:13 PM

The Core2Duo is a great step up from a single core, but it you're running a heavy game it's going to be using all of your power. You can't stream on something like that, I think. You'd be better off with a quad core or more, at equal or faster Megaherz.

The thing about 4GB of RAM is that you're only getting about 2.5GB of that, practically speaking. You're on 32-bit OS, so your vid card is taking up 1 GB of your ~3.5GB maximum.

You're rather hovering at the bare minimum requirements, when you consider that. I think you will need to run your games at low resolution and at low detail settings (if not minimum) to get any kind of smooth streaming feed.


If you're asking what you can upgrade to do better?

- CPU for more horsepower
- 64-bit Windows to use all your RAM
- maybe more RAM. I'm not sure if this streamer requires more graphics power to work, or if it works better on excess RAM, but the RAM requirements go up as you scroll through the different layers of requirements.

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: titanic3 on November 02, 2012, 10:49:56 PM

Cool, thanks for the replies.

1. So if I upgrade to 64 bit, will I have to re install anything or is it just a simple install, reboot, play?

2. Is it better to have a quad core at lower frequency or a dual core at higher?

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: Spikes on November 03, 2012, 12:05:39 AM

I have a Q9550 that I used for years in my build. It is just sitting in a box, fantastic processor and I can let it go for a lower price. There is just 1 issue with it we'd have to discuss if you are interested.

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: Krusty on November 03, 2012, 01:50:34 AM

x64 is a full reinstall, I believe.

Title: Re: What improves livestream performance?
Post by: realgood on November 03, 2012, 06:27:20 PM

 Faster RAM will help but make sure before you change a processor it will work with the motherboard  windows 7 will help too an more RAM   :salute