3950x with skipped frames due to encoding lag

[drrichardhurts]

I have a dual pc setup with a dedicated streaming PC.I have a 3950x for streaming ONLYand I stream to FB and the dashboard shows that I am always dipping below 60 fps. I have a 2080 strix as the GPU.
I have both PCs water-cooled and overclocked and the stream quality is still lacking...
What can I do to make the stream look better?
My internet is 1Gb fiber so the bitrate isn't an issue.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Here are my settings and logfile from the last stream:
Log File <------------------------------

 

[qhobbes]

A slower x264 preset than 'veryfast' is in use. It is recommended to leave this value on veryfast, as there are significant diminishing returns to setting it lower.
Try changing your Profile from main to high.

You can also use NVENC.

 

[drrichardhurts]

Thanks for replying but that's copy paste and doesnt really answer anything. My cpu is more than capable of medium. I'm having weird issues with obs and want some guidance to fine tune my stream.

 

[SoullessCanuck]

im trying to understand here so are you saying you use one pc for gaming, and one for streaming that game to your preffered platform?

 

[qhobbes]

The encoder is skipping frames because your CPU is overloaded. If you do not want to change your preset, try changing your Output Resolution to 720 and/or Common FPS to 30.

 

[drrichardhurts]

The encoder is skipping frames because your CPU is overloaded. If you do not want to change your preset, try changing your Output Resolution to 720 and/or Common FPS to 30.

my cpu is sitting under 25% in resource monitor. The cpu is 16 core/32 thread. My question is how can this processor not handle 1080p 60 fps on medium without encoding lag and what do I need to do to troubleshoot this encoding lag?
I appreciate everyone chiming in but these suggestions are not helping in troubleshooting my issue.

 

[drrichardhurts]

im trying to understand here so are you saying you use one pc for gaming, and one for streaming that game to your preffered platform?

Yes, that is correct each PC is doing 1 job. The streaming PC is pretty beefy and its getting encoding lag for some reason

 

[TryHD]

You are aware that you talk there about 5 seconds of lag on a 6,5 hour stream? Since it is so little it can be caused by many things. Maybe windows checked for updates or some other programm, or it was caused by a massive amount of animation caused by some donation or follower alerts. It is not possible to say because the log is only usefull if you hunt continues framedrops but for that small amount you would have to notice it yourself while streaming and remember what happend at the time the lag happend. Beside that ignore everything what qhobbes wrote, he is no clue about streaming with other hardware than trashbins, only changing your h.264 from main to high is actually a good idea.

 

[drrichardhurts]

You are aware that you talk there about 5 seconds of lag on a 6,5 hour stream? Since it is so little it can be caused by many things. Maybe windows checked for updates or some other programm, or it was caused by a massive amount of animation caused by some donation or follower alerts. It is not possible to say because the log is only usefull if you hunt continues framedrops but for that small amount you would have to notice it yourself while streaming and remember what happend at the time the lag happend. Beside that ignore everything what qhobbes wrote, he is no clue about streaming with other hardware than trashbins, only changing your h.264 from main to high is actually a good idea.

Thank you for replying, The problem is that the encoding lag lasted a good chunk of the stream. I was monitoring the stats constantly. I am just curious as to why this would be happening and while only using less than 25% cpu according to resource monitor. I tried Game mode on and off, I have tried lots of things to get a stable** stream. I will try the high profile and see how that works. Thank you for your info!

EDIT** I said stable stream but what I meant was stable in the sense that there is no encoding or render lag. The stream skips sometimes but I assume its because of the encoding/render lag or maybe internet fluctuations

 

[TryHD]

The problem is that the encoding lag lasted a good chunk of the stream. I was monitoring the stats constantly.

That does not show in your provided information. How did you notice the lag than?

 

[drrichardhurts]

That does not show in your provided information. How did you notice the lag than?

I rewatch all my VODs to check for quality

 

[drrichardhurts]

That does not show in your provided information. How did you notice the lag than?

idk if its my browser[chrome] or what but I have cosntant motion blur when I rewatch the streams. I was wondering if that pertained to the encoding/render lag

 

[R1CH]

NVENC generally has higher quality than x264. Your log looks fine though, most likely the motion blur you see is caused by Facebook transcoding your content. Try a recording and see if that looks OK.

 

[TryHD]

idk if its my browser[chrome] or what but I have cosntant motion blur when I rewatch the streams. I was wondering if that pertained to the encoding/render lag

looking at your VoD that is caused by Facebook reencoding your stuff. Choose a other plattform that does not transcode all quality options to get rid of that or write their support that their encoding sucks. It is the same problem youtube does have, if your content needs more bitrate than their quality controll algorithym will give your video it will look bad.

 

[drrichardhurts]

NVENC generally has higher quality than x264. Your log looks fine though, most likely the motion blur you see is caused by Facebook transcoding your content. Try a recording and see if that looks OK.

Thank you for the reply! I tried NVENC (New) and it got really blocky for me playing warzone. I understand that will happen with fast pace high movement games. I figured FB was probably saving the sweet transcoding for partners.

 

[TryHD]

I figured FB was probably saving the sweet transcoding for partners.

no, they don't have good looking transcoding at all because they want to cheap out on bandwidth

 

[drrichardhurts]

no, they don't have good looking transcoding at all because they want to cheap out on bandwidth

Damn that sucks I have had the best results here on FB might have to try somewhere else

 

[qhobbes]

Try Twitch.

 

[TryHD]

twitch sucks, they have to low bitrates caps to consider as option even. Smashcast and DLive would be better suited. You can stream on facebook and them at the same time with restream.io and simply link the high quality stream under your facebook stream for those who want the high quality.

 

[drrichardhurts]

twitch sucks, they have to low bitrates caps to consider as option even. Smashcast and DLive would be better suited. You can stream on facebook and them at the same time with restream.io and simply link the high quality stream under your facebook stream for those who want the high quality.

Thank you for the heads up! I have never heard of those sites. i will check them out.