How to Start a Twitch Stream: Setup, Software and Bitrate Settings

Streaming is seen as the easiest way to reach the dream of becoming famous by playing games, a dream in the mind of every young Turkish gamer, but here we mean web streaming, that is, streaming over the internet using your own PC's capabilities. On the Twitch platform, whose popularity has been increasing lately and which is becoming a nice source of income for Turkish users, players or those who want to become streamers especially ask one question. So what is this question? How do you start a stream on Twitch? Let's answer this question together. Here is everything about starting a stream on the Twitch platform!

What Do You Need to Start a Stream on Twitch?

To start a stream on Twitch, first of all, as everyone knows, a computer is needed. But if you say "I won't play games, I will do what we call IRL, a chat stream", you hardly need a computer. You can start your stream from a phone with a camera, ready to broadcast. If you say "no, I want to do game streaming", we would like to give you a few tips along with the PC systems that meet the minimum requirements. First of all, having a computer with a graphics card puts you a step ahead. Because in the program you will use to stream, you need to choose either the processor or the graphics card. Streaming through the processor will cause the game you play to lag quite a bit, so streaming through the graphics card will be to your benefit. So the cards called gaming graphics cards, the GTX - RTX series cards, will do the job for you. If you will stream through the processor, you need to use processors that require high performance, so it would be more appropriate to use i9 processors.

If we have sorted out the hardware side, now it is the software side's turn. On the software side, the program we recommend to you is the Streamlabs OBS program. This program, which is easier than the regular OBS program, is quite ideal for people starting new streams. If you log in with Twitch in this program, all that is left for you is to enter your internet upload settings and resolution settings. The program automatically pulls the stream key from your account. Since the stream upload settings differ from person to person, let us give you some statistics like this. The values seen below are the recommended upload values that I took directly from the Twitch site. If you are not streaming in 1080p, an upload value of 5 mbps is enough for you. Since the internet packages offered on today's internet infrastructures have upload values of 6-10 mbps, we can give you a general upload value like this. For example, if your upload value is 5 mbps, entering 3 mbps, that is a 3000kbps value, would be ideal for you. Because, even if only slightly, you also use your upload while playing games and so on. So, to avoid creating a bottleneck, it is to your benefit to leave some upload for yourself as well.