Question / Help 2 PC Stream Setup with a HP DL380 G6 2cpu server problems

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Alexandru F

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I'm having some bad time setting up my streaming setup with 2 PCs. So to describe my setup and problems:

Gaming PC:
MSI GAMING M3
I7 6700K OC at 4.5ghz with AIO Liquid
16gb DDR4 Corsair Fury
Palit GTX 1080 Dual OC slightly OCed
250gb Samsung 850 EVO with Windows 10 64bit
3TB Toshiba storage
Logitech C920 webcam
LG 34 Ultrawide 144hz monitor
Secondary monitor Acer 2560x1440 23.8"
OBS Studio 20

Streaming PC:
HP Proliant DL380 G6
2x Intel xeon X5570 la 2.93 GHz quad 8mb
34 GB DDR3 FBDIMM
1x psu 750w
4x NIC gigabit
Hyper X 120gb SSD with Windows 10 64bit
AMD R7 250 2gb
added usb3.0 PCI card wich has power supplied externaly from a VS450 PSU
to the USB 3.0 port i have connected my Razer Ripsaw capture card wich works great.
OBS Studio 20

I have gigabit internet connection via fiber, 900mb/s down, more than 200mb/s up

SO...now the hard part

I play on my ultrawide monitor at 144hz, and i need the FPS so i cannot stream from my gaming rig, i only use it to record internally, and i dont loose FPS because i use the integrated NVIDIA encoder.
I have setup my obs on my secondary monitor at 1920x1080 60hz preview fullscreen. There i make a game capture on a 16x9 canvas with my webcam and chat. From my gaming rig one HDMI cable goes to the input port on the capture card and then it comes back to the monitor.
On the streaming rig i have installed OBS and i capture the fullscreen from the capture card. I can also record back into the gaming rig via LAN with no problems, also no picture quality lost.

The real problem comes in play when i want to stream to YOUTUBE at the best possible resolution with as less as possible quality lost. I dont know what settings to make in the OBS from the streaming rig because everything i try doesn't work. When i preview my videos on yt quality seems really bad. I have tried some settings with 12000bps at 60fps and my CPU's go to about 40-50% with fast preset but the quality is still bad, nothing seems to work. have also tried 30fps and 720p but in vain, quality is bad. My streaming rig, from my point of view, seems strong enough on x264 to encode and other things, but i might be doing something bad because my yt quality is awful.

Please help guys, i'm new to this streaming thing
Thank you very much.
 
Harold

Harold

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Even dual X5570s can't handle the medium or slow preset for 1080p60 streams.


00:18:12.569: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 5028/5366 (93.7%)

00:20:54.236: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4222/7818 (54.0%)
 
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Alexandru F

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But do they work as dual? i mean are they recognized? or is it working like a single cpu machine? so i should use something from the fast preset and above? Does anyone know what would be the best settings to use in my setup scenario? thank you for your help
 
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Alexandru F

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Well...that sounds great. Thank you for your help guys...but now the hard part is that i've also tried some of the other presets and the image doesn't look as crisp as i see other streamers use 1pc setups alot weaker than my i7 doe with better image quality on 720p...it just seemed alot crispy-er. Is that big of a difference between 720p and 1080p and is really this streaming setup so bad that i cannot get a good image? i wanted to start on youtube but it seems i have to go to twitch with 720p...
 
Boildown

Boildown

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There's not enough bitrate available on Twitch to make a 1080p stream look good unless you're partnered or playing some game with very little motion.

Those Xeons combined are still worse than many single CPU solutions today. I wouldn't expect any miracles from it.

How are you getting an ultra-wide signal into that Razor Ripjaws anyways? It seems to support 1920x1080, but I doubt it supports ultra-wide resolutions.

Turn off NUMA in your streaming PC's bios if you haven't already. It helps for dual CPU computers. https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/unsupported-datapath-vision-capture.12503/page-8#post-203454
 
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Alexandru F

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The streaming pc is hard for me to figure out how it really works, because it is actually a server housing with 2U case and some crazy redundant fans that get really loud at about 50% cpu usage, i hold the ac above it so it won't get crazy. Don't know where to find that NUMA u are talking about, or it could be something really simple to do but i have no ideea what it is.

I'm pretty sure that dual xenon isn't the best solution, i got something like 650-700 cpu points in cinebench, benched it in january.

Reality is that i got it kinda cheap, at about 150-200$, and it looks baddass, like a powerhouse, even doe it isn't...but oh well. I also used it as a media server for my house until my RAID crashed and burned, stupid hdds.

My ultrawide monitor is not connected to the RIPSAW, it goes directly to my GPU so i can get my full 2560x1080 at 144hz. On my second monitor, that is 2560x1440, i set it to 1080p full with 60hz, and it goes to the RIPSAW than to the GPU. On that monitor i have my OBS opened and i am using a 16x9 1080 canvas in wich i made the Game capture and made it fit the upper part of the screen, so at the bottom i have my webcam and, to come, my chat and other info. When i start streaming, i make the preview of the scene full screen on that monitor and then i capture everything ripsaw sees there.
 
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