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How to Keep Your PC Cool While Streaming

A hot PC slows down. Clear dust, give it air and lower the load so a long stream stays steady.

The short answer

Clear dust from the vents, keep the PC off soft surfaces and lower the picture size or frame rate if it still runs hot.

How to do it in Streamdzy

  1. Open Connections and the Health check. They show what your PC and network can carry before you go live.
  2. Choose a picture quality that the check and the upload test agree on. A steady stream beats a sharp one that stalls.
  3. Turn on Record first so your recording is never missing a moment, and viewers see a smooth stream behind it.
  4. Keep the Lifeline on. When the connection weakens, the stream steps down to a smaller picture instead of freezing.

What to know first

Results depend on your PC and your connection. Streamdzy’s safety systems cover the most common failures, but no app can fix a connection that is down. Run the upload speed test to see your line first.

Questions

Why does my stream get worse after an hour?

A hot PC slows itself down. Cooling and a lower load help.

Want all of this in one app?

Streamdzy is a free streaming and recording app for Windows: several cameras, your phone as a camera, going live to many places at once, and recording first so a bad connection never costs you the show.