Software

Discord

Discord is a free Voice-over-IP-Service like Teamspeak, which grows in popularity everyday. It's now possible to find for nearly every game a community. You can either use it via your browser, smartphone or desktop client.

Radmin/Zerotier

After the shutdown of Tunngle and Evolve the go to place for playing your old games is currently Radmin or Zerotier. The program let you create/join private space, in which you can use the buildin Lan-Mode of any game.

Our groups

Radmin: Unity One Password = Enterprise
Zerotier: 9bee8941b559a58e (Unity One Network)

Gameranger

Another VPN-Service, but unlike to Radmin or ZeroTier you use the client lobby to connect directly to a match, so no traditional Lan-Mode. It's very easy to use, if you want only the vanilla multiplayer of a game. Should you have a modded version, you must customize your options, so that it leads to the right game exe.

Geforce Experience

This free software from NVIDIA let you download and install the newest drivers, optimize your game settings and record your games. You can easily record whole sessions or save everything in your buffer (up to 20min). The only downside of it are the bugs, which lead to loss of your recordings and that you can't have multiple audio tracks.

Video Capture Tab

Instant Replay length: 10min
Resolution: In-game
Frame rate: 60 FPS
Bit rate: 130Mbps

Audio Tab

System Volume: 100%
Microphone Volume: 50%
Audio tracks: Separate both tracks

Privacy Control Tab

Desktop capture = on

OBS

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for live streaming and video recording. For video encoding, OBS is capable of using the x264, Quick Sync H.264, NVENC H.264 to encode video streams. Audio can be encoded using either the MP3 or AAC formats.

General Settings

Outpute Mode - Streaming Tab:

Encoder: x264
Enforce streaming service encoder settings: unchecked
Rate Control: CBR
Bitrate: 6000
Use Custom Buffer Size: unchecked
Keyframe Intervale: 2
CPU Usage Preset: medium
Profile: high
Tune: none
x264 Option: threads=18 rc-lookahead=60 trellis=1 direct-pred=spatial

Outpute Mode - Recording Tab:

Type: Standard
Recording Format: mp4
Audio Track: 2,3,4
Encoder: Nvidia Nvenc H.264 (new)
Rate Control: CQP
CQ Level: 16
Keyframe Interval: 0
Preset: Max Quality
Profil: High
Look-ahead: unchecked
Psycho Visual Tuning: checked
GPU: 0
Max B-Frames: 0

Outpute Mode - Audio Tab:

Track 1: Bitrate = 192, Name = Desktop
Track 2: Bitrate = 320, Name = Game
Track 3: Bitrate = 320, Name = Mic
Track 4: Bitrate = 320, Name = Discord

Audio Tab:

Sample Rate: 44.1khz
Channels: Stereo
Desktop Audio Device: Default
Desktop Audio Device 2: Disabled
Mic/Auxiliary Audio Device: Rode NT-USB
Mic/Auxiliary Audio Device 2: VB-Audio Cable B
Mic/Auxiliary Audio Device 3: VB-Audio Cable A
Audio Meter Decay Rate: Fast
Peak Meter Type: Sample Peak

Video Tab:

Base(Canvas) Resolution: 1280x720
Output(Scaled) Resolution: 1280x720
Downscale Filter: Lanczos (Sharpened scaling, 32 samples)
Common FPS Values: 60

Hotkeys Tab:

Start/End Streaming: STRG + 1(Numpad)
Start/End Recording: STRG + 2(Numpad)
Switch to Intro scene: Alt + 1(Numpad)
Switch to Gaming scene: Alt + 2(Numpad)
Switch to Outro scene: Alt + 3(Numpad)
Switch to Break scene: Alt + 4(Numpad)
Mute Discord Audio: Alt + 8(Numpad)
Mute Desktop Audio: ALT + 9(Numpad)
Mute Mic: Mouse 4

Advanced Tab:

Process Priority: Normal
Renderer: Direct3D 11
Color Format: NV12
YUV Color Space: 709
YUV Color Range: Partial

Filter for Rode NT-USB

Compressor:

Ratio: 5:1
Threshold: -15
Attack: 6
Release: 60
Outpute Gaing: 0
Sidechain/Ducking Source: none

Noise Gate:

Close Threshold: -39
Open Threshold: -28
Attack Time: 25
Hold Time: 200
Release Time: 150

Text:

Intro: Stream Starting Soon (Comic Sans MS Regular)
Outro: Thanks for stopping by! (Comic Sans MS Regular)
Break: Taking a break! Be right back! (Comic Sans MS Regular)

Vegas

A powerful video editing software, which is easy to use, but hard to master. For a real guide you should go to youtube, but here are some of the settings we use.

Custom Settings - Magix AVC/AAV MP4: