For some reason, I continue to have dropped frames and slow frames when attempting to stream on the desktop with Twitch Studio. (Thanks, Manchin… my tax refund literally funded this because we didn’t have a desktop.) I’m going to remedy this in the coming months with a desktop that is, at the very least, marginally better than the desktop that I’ve been attempting to stream on, because if it can not consistently or reliably stream, there’s probably other things that it can’t do as well. This perplexes me because this desktop is seriously only one year old, was advertised as gaming friendly, and has consistently begun to fall short of the things that I would like it to do. If it has significant trouble streaming, we are bound to run into other things that it can’t do as well, and I’m just now finding out that some of the games that I’ve gotten for free off of Epic Games (or downloaded from Origin or Steam) are going to have difficulty playing because of the graphics card in it — namely the type, as the drivers tell me that it’s an Intel… something something… 530.

Yeah, this is going to be fun. I shouldn’t be tremendously surprised by the outcome of this though.

Okay, so I have the microphone set up in a really good position, and I’ve confirmed that it is picking up sounds at the volume that I want it to. The webcam is also in an optimal position on the desktop, being the one that I can move around a bit as needed. It picks up the images that I want it to pick up. They look crisp.

The only thing that I think I need to do is to make sure that frames aren’t dropped — or slow — although my current Internet speed indicates that I shouldn’t have to worry about that (29.1 Mbps download, 11.4 Mbps upload). I’ve been using Twitch Studio for the streams that I’ve done so far, although I am open to switching to a new program as long as it has the same ease of use and lets me install the overlays that I’ve been using.

Now all I think I have to do is fix the alerts (or wait for Twitch to fix them in Twitch Studio) and I’ll be good for awhile! This, of course, supposes that I decide to stay with Twitch Studio for the long haul. It is easy to work.