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Originally Posted by Chiomara
Even if I'd just be streaming things like The Sims 1 (not that anyone would want to watch that anyway)?
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I imagine a game with as little going on in the screen as I guess The Sims does might not tax your computer too much, but if your computer really is that old then you'd be surprised but just how low the threshold CPU-wise is for footage even somewhat into the new millenium. I have a laptop that admittedly not at all a gaming laptop, but it's only two years old and at least runs 6gb of RAM, and I was still unable to record most games released within the last decade and a half if I wanted them in at least 720p (nobody wants to watch sub-HD videos in 2018).
And that was just recording to a video, not streaming, which is even more CPU intensive. You might be fine, but I imagine you're definitely going to have to dick around with settings to get things to work. I used OBS, not Twitch, since I was just recording mostly, but all the settings are kind of byzantine.