I also really like that Streamlabs OBS lets you set both a stream title and game within the app. Of course, if you're starting from scratch it'll probably take at least a few minutes. If you've been using OBS to this point, no worries, your stream setup can be imported in a jiffy. If you already use Streamlabs, your stuff is automatically pulled in when you log in. The developers promise setup to streaming should only take 60 seconds, and while I didn't time it, it feels accurate. However, since it's still a beta, some issues are to be expected. In XSplit and normal OBS, adding sources and changing their settings is fast and easy, but in Streamlabs OBS this area of the app often hangs for me. There's one area I'm less impressed with, and that's in the actual setup process. Streamlabs is banking on you normally having a web browser open and any number of other applications.

And this is just purely with a stream setup comparing like for like with no other programs open.

That's quite a lot, with XSplit almost pushing 1GB at times while Streamlabs OBS was much less taxing at sub-700MB.ĬPU usage was also lower on Streamlabs OBS, on average I'd say around five percent, so not massive, but still an improvement. Streamlabs OBS, with the same exact stream setup as XSplit, used 300MB less RAM on my PC. In a very simple test between this and the program I'm most familiar with, XSplit, I found some definite differences.

Mileage will vary, though, as it very much depends just how much other stuff you currently have going on when you're streaming. The developers say its could see performance could be improved by as much as 25 percent which, if true, is reason alone to use it for your streams. On the landing page, Streamlabs makes a bold claim about its version of OBS regarding CPU usage.

Streamlabs dashboard