Setting Up Of Legends for Clean Multiplayer Streams
The setup process is not complicated, but there are enough moving parts that most people get something wrong on their first attempt. You need to configure your game, your streaming software, your network, and your capture chain so they all work together instead of fighting each other. Here is how I usually walk through it. Start with the game itself. Launch Of Legends and go into Settings > Graphics. Turn V-Sync off. Turn any frame limit off. Set your resolution to match your native display, but if you are running below a stable 60 frames, drop the resolution one step down before you touch any streaming settings. In my experience, Of Legends is more GPU-intensive in multiplayer scenarios than it appears from the menu, because the engine renders separate particle layers for each player's abilities. This means a lobby of ten players will push your GPU significantly harder than a single-player section. Next, open your streaming software. If you are using OBS Studio, go to Settings > Output and switch the output mode to Advanced. Under the Streaming tab, set your service to Twitch or whatever platform you use. The key setting here is the bitrate. For Of Legends multiplayer content, you need at least 4500 Kbps if you are streaming at 720p, or 6000 K Mbps if you are doing 1080p. Anything less and the stream will look muddy during team fights, which is when detail matters most. Do not set your bitrate above what your platform supports or what your upload speed can sustain without choking.
Under the Video tab, set your base resolution to your monitor resolution and your output resolution to either 1280x720 or 1920x1080. Set the FPS to 60. For most multiplayer games in this genre, 60 FPS makes a noticeable difference in how readable the action looks on stream. The common mistake people make is streaming at 30 FPS because it uses less encoding resources. Your viewers will not thank you. Now the encoder. If you have an NVIDIA card, use the NVENC H.264 (new) encoder. It is fast, it does not steal CPU cycles from the game, and it produces clean enough output for platforms that re-encode anyway. AMD users should go with AMF or the newer NV12-based encoders available in recent driver updates. If you are on a beefy enough CPU and want maximum quality, x264 is still viable, but expect some frame drops during heavy multiplayer sequences unless your CPU is at least a Ryzen 5 5600X or equivalent. I used x264 on a 5600X for a few months and consistently lost 15 to 20 frames during large team fights. Switching to NVENC solved it immediately. Keyframe interval should be set to 2 seconds. This is a standard requirement for most streaming platforms and affects how smoothly your stream buffers for viewers. Set your rate control to CBR. Constant bitrate is what platforms expect. Dynamic bitrate causes stuttering on the viewer end. Look at the preset if your encoder supports it: use P6 or High Quality for NVENC, which balances encoding speed and visual fidelity. Overriding this with faster presets will save marginal CPU usage but will noticeably degrade stream quality.
Audio is where most people mess up. Go to Audio Mixers and set your Mic/Auxiliary track to 160 Kbps. This is sufficient for commentary. If you are using a USB microphone or an XLR mic with an audio interface, test your levels before going live. Of Legends has competitive audio cues, so your game audio should sit lower in the mix than your mic. I usually set my game volume to about 40 percent and my mic to 75 percent. If you are streaming with teammates in Discord, route Discord through your streaming software as a separate audio source so you can adjust its volume independently. Failing to do this results in either dead air when Discord connects or audio chaos when multiple people talk at once. Network configuration is often overlooked. Run a speed test and note your upload speed. Your streaming bitrate should never exceed 70 percent of your sustained upload speed. If your upload is 10 Mbps, do not stream above 7000 Kbps. Anything higher and you will experience bufferbloat, which shows up as dropped frames and pixelated chunks. If you are on Wi-Fi, switch to Ethernet. It is not optional for competitive multiplayer streaming. I have seen latency spikes of 40 to 80 milliseconds on Wi-Fi that completely destroyed stream stability during ranked matches. A $15 Ethernet cable fixed this instantly. For the capture method, use Game Capture if your streaming software supports it. It is more efficient than Window Capture and puts less strain on your system. If Game Capture conflicts with Of Legends for some reason, Window Capture is the fallback. Full-screen capture generally works but adds unnecessary overhead. The difference between Game Capture and Window Capture on a mid-range system is roughly 3 to 5 frames per second.
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One edge case I ran into: Of Legends occasionally detects overlay programs as potential cheating tools, especially when streaming from certain hardware configurations. When this happened, the game would freeze the stream overlay mid-match. The fix was simple—add an exception in the game's settings for my streaming software and disable any in-game anti-cheat overlay features during the stream. This has only affected me on one occasion in about two years of regular streaming, but it is worth knowing about. Another common issue is audio desync. If your stream audio drifts out of sync with the video, go into your audio settings and adjust the sync offset. Most streaming software has a global audio sync adjustment measured in milliseconds. A value of plus or minus 5 to 10 milliseconds fixes most desync issues without affecting anything else. I learned this the hard way after a three-hour stream where my audience kept reporting that my voice sounded like it was coming from underwater. The fix was in the sync offset, not the microphone. If you are streaming multiplayer content specifically, consider adding a simple on-screen display or scene that shows your current FPS and encoding stats. This takes about two minutes to set up in most streaming software and gives you real-time feedback on whether your settings are working. The default FPS counter in most streaming software is enough. You do not need a third-party overlay for this unless you want additional data points.
The actual broadcast setup is straightforward after all of this. Once your scenes are configured and your audio levels are set, go to Settings > Stream and hit Start Streaming. Most platforms will show you a preview before you go fully live. Use this preview to catch any remaining issues. If everything looks and sounds right, go live. If not, adjust and restart.
