Zaevansious
New Member
I'll start off by saying, I'm trying to stream Overwatch and Playerunknown Battlegrounds. In OBS I use X264 encoding, currently on the superfast preset. Anything more nets me lag that is headache inducing. I play on 1920x1080 with a refresh rate of 144hz. I down scale the output from OBS to 720p 60fps, both in the output tab, and the video tab. (See bottom of post for PC specs).
While playing and streaming (on a single PC setup), if I exceed the super fast preset, or have my in game graphics too high, I get either way lower frames, or I get slightly less frames, but with what seems like a much lower refresh rate. It's almost like the fps is high but the refresh rate is set to 30. Very undesirable, both in game and on stream. I have set the affinities for both OBS and the games to high, which yielded a very very minor improvement. So I opened task manager and CAM to see what my PC is doing while streaming. My CPU doesn't go past 50% unless I go over the faster preset I'm obs. My ram, all 32GB of it, doesn't notice anything going on, it sits at 15% most of the time. My graphics card gets up to about 70%, which isn't bad at all, and my Temps never exceed 65c.
Im at wits end with this right now. I'm to the point where I almost want to just give up on any decent quality stream. It's gets me down so much that I hardly stream anymore. Even the few followers I have, starts messaging me on steam and Discord asking where the F I've been. Is there any way to make this experience more satisfactory, without spending another $1200 on a dedicated streaming PC? I really don't have the funds for that right now. Or maybe even make OBS use more of my CPU without affecting my games, or vice versa?
Specs:
I7 6800k @3.4ghz (3.6 turbo)
Gtx 1080 evga
32GB gskill tridentz @3000mhz
500GB Samsung Evo 960 NVME SSD
500GB Sata SSD
MSI X99 workstation motherboard
While playing and streaming (on a single PC setup), if I exceed the super fast preset, or have my in game graphics too high, I get either way lower frames, or I get slightly less frames, but with what seems like a much lower refresh rate. It's almost like the fps is high but the refresh rate is set to 30. Very undesirable, both in game and on stream. I have set the affinities for both OBS and the games to high, which yielded a very very minor improvement. So I opened task manager and CAM to see what my PC is doing while streaming. My CPU doesn't go past 50% unless I go over the faster preset I'm obs. My ram, all 32GB of it, doesn't notice anything going on, it sits at 15% most of the time. My graphics card gets up to about 70%, which isn't bad at all, and my Temps never exceed 65c.
Im at wits end with this right now. I'm to the point where I almost want to just give up on any decent quality stream. It's gets me down so much that I hardly stream anymore. Even the few followers I have, starts messaging me on steam and Discord asking where the F I've been. Is there any way to make this experience more satisfactory, without spending another $1200 on a dedicated streaming PC? I really don't have the funds for that right now. Or maybe even make OBS use more of my CPU without affecting my games, or vice versa?
Specs:
I7 6800k @3.4ghz (3.6 turbo)
Gtx 1080 evga
32GB gskill tridentz @3000mhz
500GB Samsung Evo 960 NVME SSD
500GB Sata SSD
MSI X99 workstation motherboard
