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DF Weekly: Live stream quality can be awful - and it should be better
This week's DF Direct Weekly is what you might call a 'come down' episode. After the highs of the Sony State of Play, S…
The first time I watched it I was shocked and when we consider the amount of money it takes to make a game like Star Wars Outlaws or Assassin's Creed Shadows, the concept that these titles should look so bad during a major live streaming event is almost inconceivable, so what happened and how can things improve? What made it far worse for me as a viewer coming to the show late is that the GameSpot rendition of the event was the number one search result for 'Ubisoft Forward 2024' meaning that initially I was watching a second generation version of the stream, which looked truly horrendous. Regardless, the point is that Nvidia Share grabs images direct from video memory at the frame-rate you specify, but doesn't accurately reflect the pacing of the output - exacerbated if the game's performance level is higher and/or lower than the recording speed.
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