OBS 23 is live: How to get better livestreams with Nvidia’s encoder

Setting up a high-quality livestream is an expensive and complicated task, but Nvidia is working to address that by partnering with popular livestreaming tool developer Open Broadcasting Software (OBS).

Traditionally, the quality goal for a broadcaster on Twitch or YouTube is to encode a live video with the CPU-powered X.264 encoder at “medium” speed. This creates an image where text is sharp and motion looks smooth. The problem is that this is so taxing on the CPU that it will either cause your game to run slower or you will need a second PC dedicated exclusively to encoding the livestream.