Stream quality settings?

[loler_SK]

Do you see any real difference between options Fast, Balanced and Beautiful? For example I don't see any visible difference between Balanced and Beautiful, I did not try Fast yet. Why there are these options if they do not affect stream quality noticeably? What is their "hidden" purpose, real technical difference? I'm asking because the real difference between these options is not explained and it is confusing. Better remove them or explain what they really do, thank you. (for example, it it affects picture sharpness, vsync/framerate behavior, input/video lag...)

[G3na5ide]

I've wondered this for ages too!

[daaw_gees]

Ditto, was geting ready to write this question myself.

[Adelin]

Hello,

I will speack only about streaming experience from few months ago, since the actual amf encoder , and decode feature need a fix, so i won't comment about actual performance.
I don't have a good memory, so it may be biased toward old steam client experience ?

ok:
What i remember from the old days if i'm correct.
Fast quality was nice on some games , but could have very bad effect like some sort of big blocks of semi-transparent texture spammed all the way.

This is about encoding with amd hd month ago.

Balanced was very beautifull, and beautifull quality, only necessary on one or two games.
Auto quaity was not working perfectly, but there was a big improvment, it was beautifull at streaming, with windows 7 when catalyst 15.7 was out.
I remember playing battlefield 4 demo and i was impressed on auto, with hardware and software encoder.

It was the best experience so far the month 15.7 drivers was out.

Everything has broken when windows 10 was out, and past catalyst 15.7.1 , one month later there was a steam update, and quality was bad, but almost playable.

Off course i have a full install of windows 10 64 family , i did from dvd, on automatic install, uefi and gpt partition...

Ok so the best quality possible has always been for me from selecting between 15 and 30Mb/s up to unllimited bandwitch to fix some games with bad graphics while streaming.

Balanced was needed most of the time, and i like to switch to beautifull, to improve one or two games.

About performance, using a lan router, an i5 4670k and hd7870, i had off course lower fps, by a good margin, there was no difference i think using different streaming settings.

Now about intel quicksync, it was always working very fast at encoding and not taxing games fps like amd encoders.

Off course there is the need to remove the amf folder, and install intel hd graphic drivers after enable igp.

The best overall graphic quality depend on steam version, was most of the time with my hd7870 encoder.

Months ago software encoding/decoding was very nice...
But actually amd has to fix amf encoder.

Here you go :)