How To Stream On Discord (Go Live)

One of Discord’s most popular features is granting its users the ability to stream or, as its developers call it, “Go Live“. If you haven’t previously streamed on Discord, you might need some guidance to set it up properly.

Fortunately, based on our familiarity, Go Live is quite user-friendly. By simply examining its different configurations, we were capable of starting and managing top-notch livestreams.

To ensure that your future streams are of equally outstanding quality, we have written this article to guide you through the settings.

Let’s dive right in.

Setting Up Go Live

Starting a stream is quite straightforward. All you need to do is join a voice channel, click on Screen, and select the window/game you want to stream.

However, some games will not be automatically detected by Discord. You will need to add these games manually before you start streaming.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Start Discord and open User Settings.
   
2. At the bottom of the left panel, under Activity Settings, click on Activity Status.
   
3. For this step, you must have your game running or Discord will not detect it. Once the game has started, click the blue Add it! button.
4. Once you have added the game, the grey bar above the Add it! button will turn green to indicate that it is detecting your game.
   

Starting The Stream

After finishing the setup, go back to the server and proceed with the instructions below to initiate the streaming process.

1. While in a server, join a voice channel.
2. With the game added to your Discord library, you should see a new tab above the channel ping/connection. Click the small monitor icon on it.
   
3. This will open a new window where you can further optimize your stream. However, if the server is not boosted or you don’t have Discord Nitro, you won’t be able to do much.
4. If possible, select 1080p or Source resolution and 60FPS under Frame Rate. If that isn’t possible, leave it at 720P and 30FPS.
   
5. Click Go Live to start streaming.

Your friends and any other server members should now be able to join your Discord stream.

Before we conclude this article, there is an alternate method to begin your stream.

Alternative Method To Start Stream

If you don’t want to broadcast a game but instead only a specific window such as Google Chrome or even Discord itself, this is also feasible. Here’s how:

1. As described previously, join any voice channel, but don’t look for the tab we previously mentioned.
2. This time, look for the Screen button, which also features a monitor icon. Click it.
   
3. From this menu, you can specify which window you want to stream. You can also go to the Screens tab and choose a screen. There will be multiple options if you have multiple monitors.
   
4. Once you have made your selection, you will be taken to that same window to choose your resolution and FPS.
5. Click Go Live.

That’s all there is to it!

If there is a window that doesn’t appear as an option, we suggest returning to the first subheading and adding the application as you would add a game. By doing this, you can ensure that the application will appear when trying to stream.