Would you like assistance verifying your streaming equipment?
Would you like assistance verifying your streaming equipment?
You're looking to determine suitable streaming quality for titles such as New World, Fallout 21, and Escape From Tarkov with your current hardware. Based on your specs, you should be able to handle high-quality streams, likely in HD or even 4K, depending on the game's settings. Your CPU, GPU, and RAM are well within capable ranges for these titles.
Additionally, consider setting up a 4TB or 2TB HDD for storage. As a streamer, you'll likely require significant space to keep all your videos.
Consensus reached. SSDs can degrade rapidly under streaming conditions. Performance exceeds typical daily usage.
SSDs are designed to handle significantly more write endurance than even intense video recording would manage. That figure applies only under warranty terms; in reality, most drives easily surpass that limit. The main reason to choose an HDD over an SSD is usually cost versus capacity. While SSDs can suffer data corruption after long idle periods, most boot drives remain powered on for years without issues. The chance of boot drive failure is practically nonexistent. You should reassess your bias toward SSDs—they offer a much smoother computing experience compared to any HDD you might run from.
I don’t think I’ll return to HDDs for starting up. Programs and files load quicker. I’d love to have one on my Thinkpad. I can even boot from a LiveUSB while using it.
One advantage is that you don’t need much storage since it’s handled elsewhere. It usually doesn’t rely heavily on the hard drive at all—just streams via GPU or CPU without saving anything locally (though a small cache might exist, it wouldn’t consume much space). You probably won’t need a lot of settings, maybe 1080p/60 should suffice, and for intense games you could drop to 720p. The hardware looks capable. The limits are surprising, but 9000kbps for 1080p60 is possible (some buffer room), and 1440p60 at twice the rate is what I stream most often. Bitrates around 4–6000kbps seem reasonable depending on content. Avoid SLOBS—it felt slow and underperformed compared to OBS, but you can test it if you wish.