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Single PC or Two PC Streaming Setup? The Honest Answer
Hardware encoders made single-PC streaming good enough for almost everyone. Here's where that breaks down.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
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Stream Overlays and Alerts: Setting Them Up Without Wrecking Performance
How to build a clean overlay and alert setup in OBS that does not cost you frames, from someone who ran a cluttered one for two years.
Dan Okafor·4 minAugust 12
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Stream Audio That Does Not Sound Terrible
Mic placement, gain staging, separating game and voice channels, and the noise suppression settings that make you sound worse.
Dan Okafor·4 minAugust 12
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How to Start Streaming on Twitch (The Honest Version)
Not a gear list. The settings, schedule and habits that decide whether a new channel grows or stalls at zero viewers.
Dan Okafor·4 minAugust 12
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Best OBS Settings for Streaming in 2026 (Without Dropping Frames)
Most OBS guides hand you a preset without saying what it costs. Here's how to pick bitrate, encoder and resolution based on your upload speed and your GPU — and how to read the dropped frames counter.
Dan Okafor·5 minAugust 12
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Recording Gameplay: Capture Card, Software, or Neither?
Most people do not need a capture card. Here's when software recording is enough, when it isn't, and the settings that stop recordings looking terrible.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12