You should have speedrun this tutorial. Would be meta af

5 years later and this still coming in clutch for potential new speedrunners like myself

This tutorial was by far the most helpful thing to get me started both on LiveSplit AND an OBS that is actually easy to use. Thank you for your incredible insight and tips!

Exactly a year later, still an amazing video.

Thank you so much! I've myself been thinking of getting into speedrunning and this guide could really help! So again, thank you! :D

Damn bro he passed Ganon in 5 seconds that's crazy!!

This tutorial is absolutely phenomenal. Thank you so much for explaining and demonstrating all this functionality in a clear, concise manner!

thank you very much for this tutorial. I'm looking forward to using all this knowledge for my first speedrun ever of FFiX

thank you, i actually wanted to start speedrunning for fun and test it out. i'm 4 years late but it's never too early to learn!

everytime i get back into speedrunning i forget how to do this and i always use this video thx for posting it your streams are awesome btw

Thank you very much for the tutorial. It helped a lot. But how do you make those boxes? Are they a part of your background or do you make them seperately?

This is a really detailed tutorial. Well done!

Just learned that you were swedish, or im pretty sure since you have a swedish interface. Very cool to have a big Zelda KZfaqr from my country!

Hey linkus is there any way you would be willing to share what the dimentions of your things are? Like what is the size of your video capture, Webcam, Splits etc.... I'm trying to get a set up similar to yours and having numbers to compare with would be very helpful.

This was a big help, thank you very much! Time to grind those PBs!

Thanks very much! Frienf of mine wanted to encourage me to do a speedrun and I was wondering how to get that nifty timer. Your tutorial is super helpful and easy to follow, thank you!

When you don't know anything about speedrunning, but still want to make a speedrunning related video

I'm gonna start running mega man x2! This is gonna be a huuuuge help!

Thanks for the tutorial, I set the world record for need for speed the run (2:13:54) But wasn't aware of it, so I wasn't recording but now I'm going to do it lmao

Thanks a lot. Everything's clear. Very good indeed!

Amazing video, thank you so much man!

Hey I got a question for ya, where do you get the cool background that you use for your overlay? Did you make it yourself or did it come from like a free overlay bank?

Hi, I have one question, how can I put a timer on a full screen game? Thx.

Thanks for all the help!

Thanks brotha, very helpful!

I always assumed this interacted with the games itself and always wondered how it would grab the info off of ancient game consoles. Well, this cleared up that mystery.

this deserves more likes

Sorry if my question is kinda dumb, but is there any way to assign a button on a PS4 pad to slit my timing rather than a Keyboard key? The thing is, when I start making the run I dont wanna touch anything else besides the pad that Im playing on. Thanks

@Linkus7 Hey thanks man for the video. Getting ready to dabble in speedrunning and needed a quick run down on LiveSplit useage.

Best in depth livesplit video on KZfaq period. This answered all of my questions man it also helped me on improving transparent timer. Thanks for taking the time to make this video Liked* and Subscribed* 👍🏽

Yo! Är du svensk? Tack för hjälpen, den här videon hjälpte mycket! Are you a Swede? Thanks for the help, this video helped alot!

I speedrun Sonic Adventure DX on steam, and I wanna know how I can make the timer start on its own when I choose Tails, do the splits when I complete them, and then the time end on its own when I beat Tails' story? I thought other speedrunners had stuff like that so they didn't need to use a hotkey.

Interesting video! So you basically press a key to go to the next split... I always thought it was measured automatically, in order to make it fair for everyone?

thanks for the video however i cant stop the timer through pausing the game or cutscenes which then gives me a totally different time to ingame time how do you do this to match the ingame time?

This was very instructing

So does auto split activate while the game is active? Or do you need the layout also?

It´s so easy yet I didn´t know about most of this D:

i have a problem, whenever i change the controls for starting pausing etc. if i close the programm it does not save. why?

i may only be using this for a speedrun where i increase the water bills, but god damn this is useful

when i search game name it has no search results like i can type "a" and nothnig pops up i can type in any game like minecraft or cuphead but nothing shows in the search

Thank you for this !

Very good the tutorial and all but how do i add custom fonts like the mario one ????

When it comes to changing the hotkeys, I don't have the ok option. Something must be wrong with my version?

How do I add sub splits? Like if I want to list a certain level in the game, and then have splits underneath that for each mission associated with that level, and keep them grouped together like that?

When I add the World Record field it picks the right category but not the right sub-category WR I wanted.

For me obs shows it as the live split spliters and a giant black box thing on the left side of it

hello, I only play isport, I wanted to know if you have developed a countdown, which would display: departure time, the hour which is counted from the start and the remaining time Thanks for your answer

What I'm wondering How you use your keybinds ingame while playing because im running l4d2 and I need to jump and i'll split and I dont like it

I am trying to learn all this and I got most of the major parts down. However, I am not seeing how to get the LiveSplit itself into OBS. Does anyone know how to do so? It was a bit confusing when I tried to do the share window option in OBS. Thank you!

how do i get a timer on full screen game is it possible?

is there any way i start timer without having to mainly click on the timer box then press the hotkey

how do you add custom fonts for the timer

What should I do if I click on LiveSplit in my folder after extracting all the files if it keeps trying to open the appliacation? Also, do the files only have to be extracted once?

what icons do you use, can you send me the link please?

Ny till speedrunning, tack för videon. Du förtjärnade precis en till prenumerant

yo, I have live split and followed all the instructions, but whenever i go to actually launch it it just doesnt open, however it says its open in task manager. is this a common issue? because i have no idea what to do

every time I try to set the timer in game it always stays on that window (i tried it without full screen and it didn't work either) can someone help me with this?

Thanks. So, how do you import community splits records? And how do you do automatic splits, I mean, when a boss is done, I press somehow sooner or later the button to split, then split is different; I don't think it is all manual, as it would be unfair if I press 1 sec before others. Someone plz explain this to me, thanks.

very good tutorial, was a massive help for me just take care with "layout explanations"... actually it isn't too much important

Sweet tutorial, but I have a dumb question. In order to get the timer to register my keypresses, it needs to be in focus. However, when I'm in game, it's no longer in focus. It's still displayed over top of the game, but it won't register my presses to start/stop the timer. What am I missing?

what do you do when smartscreen blocks it

When I try to change the colors it gives me a error message. Is there a way to fix this issue?

I'm unable to save my layouts and I'm not seeing that option anywhere. I'm trying to make a new category for myself too so idk if that's relevant. How do I save my splits and layout after I'm done? Also is there a way to split while staying in a steam game? Is it possible to use it as an overlay over top of whatever game I'm playing? It feels impossible to start speedrunning without knowing these things and I don't see that info in this tutorial anywhere. What's in here is helpful, but it hasn't helped me actually start running.

how do you get your windows to look like that im so amazed

it won't work for me, it says " object refrence not set to an instance of an object "

when i open the appplication it just dosent run

how do i get a layout like the one u have?

how to start the timer?

Great video, I would have liked it a lot better if you did it in the form of a speedrun.

how do i use the livesplit while playing a game? because when i try to speedrun and i press my hotkey to start the timer, the timer doesnt start. i have to open the application in order to start the timer

This is amazing! im using this for Roblox doors

when i downloaded the file i cant find the program. please anyone help me with this

when Im playing when I move my mouse it will go over livesplit and when I click it tabs me out of my game

How do I do this on console specifically ps4, speedrun.com requires it but there are still console runs

How can i show which key i pressing?

I keep getting an error when i try to launch: "exception has been thrown by target of an invocation"... any ideas?

When I try to run livesplit in the first step, it just says the application cannot run and the timer doesn't even appear for me help is appreciated

Have a question, I'm on mac and when I download the folder LiveSplit does not show up but LiveSplit.exe shows up and when I open it, it doesn't open LiveSplit it opens something else can someone help

hi i started speed running a game on roblox called speed run 4, but whenever i want to go to my next split i have to waste a second or 2 on clicking livesplit and pressing my button, its really annoying and time consuming i need to find a way where i can play the game and as soon as i press my button it goes to the next split instead of having to click on livesplit.

every time i try to open the livesplit folder i get an error message saying: the parameter is incorrect

What happened to the other 6 Linkus?

i can open livesplit and get the timer but after making a split file the splits wont open

How do I get a settings.cfg file?

how do you get the blue theme background or any color background besides black?

What if the game isn't supported by livesplit, what then?

when i want to insert above in that editor the bars are grey any reason why they are grey?

Can I use livesplit on a ps4?

How do you activate timer while game is running? Doesn't seem to be possible. And windowed mode wouldn't make a difference. Neither would two displays.

During the stream, when i reduce SplitScreen, on the Stream it can't show the Time, how do I fix that ?

Is there no way to make the background transparent?

umm where do i extract it to?

Hello. This tutorial is pretty nice but. For some reason i cannot add more splits to my timer. I don't know why but i'm trying to speedrun a specific ROBLOX game and i cannot add anymore then one split to the timer.

Thank you so much

How can we download other runner's splits for comparison?

how do you get live split to record to Speedrun.com?

thank you so much

thanks my guy

can you make a video on how you connect the system to obs

wait there is a linkus tutorial for livesplitts. Pog

Thanks !