{"id":5639,"date":"2018-12-19T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:11:45","slug":"still-streaming-gearheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/5639","title":{"rendered":"Still Streaming Gearheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a second streaming session. I intend to keep doing these until I get it right, which I clearly haven&#8217;t yet. I managed to keep up the patter better than in my first session, and I managed to get all the way from level 1 of <em>Gearheads<\/em> level 24 in one go, but my changes to the OBS streaming settings seem to have made the lag\/framerate problems worse, not better. I&#8217;ve looked at the resulting video, and it&#8217;s at the point where it&#8217;s best described using seconds per frame instead of frames per second.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I have some more ideas to try, starting with reducing the resolution (default resolution is a waste for this game) and shutting down all other devices that use the Internet. One obvious thing that I actually mentioned on the stream is to switch from the Mac laptop I&#8217;ve been using to my more-powerful Windows desktop, but for whatever reason, DOSBox runs a lot better on the laptop. If I play from the desktop, improving the streaming won&#8217;t matter, because a stream that perfectly replicates what I&#8217;m seeing on my screen would still contain noticeable hitches.<\/p>\n<p>In short, via streaming, I have managed to turn <em>Gearheads<\/em> into the sort of technical challenge that I&#8217;ve always found easier to blog about than game content. If you want to watch tonight, the URL is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/muckenhoupt\">https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/muckenhoupt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a second streaming session. I intend to keep doing these until I get it right, which I clearly haven&#8217;t yet. I managed to keep up the patter better than in my first session, and I managed to get all the way from level 1 of Gearheads level 24 in one go, but my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[601,608],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gearheads","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}