Question / Help Best settings for FPS

[Rdgnik]

Hello, I'm kinda new to the streaming world, anyways, i'd like to stream some of counter-strike global offensive competitive matches and other stuff

My Specs
Laptop w/

3610qm i7 ivy bridge 2.3ghz, up to 3.1ghz using 4 cores
8gb RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 630m 2gb
Internet: 35mbps download, 3,5mbps upload

I'm getting like 120-220 fps in-game, with 1280x720. When I pass through smoke grenades, It rarely goes down to 60-80 fps range, which is still playable, but not that good for gaming performance, still not annoying at all, just minimal drops, only inside the smoke.

OBS specs

Quality: 6-7
Preset: Veryfast
Bitrate-Buffer: 2500-2500
30fps

Audio ACC 128bit
1280X720 res

This settings seems to work pretty good, but when im streaming, my in-game performance is pissing me off, I've tried a bunch of tutorials, but my overall fps drops to about 70-90, 120 at it's best, with some laggy movements, doesn't feel natural, with DXtory or the built-in game capture, if you guys know this game, definitely knows its playable, but terrible for a player who has like 8 years playing counter-strike(still a noob by the way ;D).

What I can do to at least minimize the FPS drops?

 

[Krazy]

Not much with the stable build, unfortunately. That laptop GPU is holding you back a bit.

However, the test builds should allow you to make use of the QuickSync encoder on your Ivy Bridge CPU. You'll nee to have more bitrate for the sameish quality, but it should not impact your game performance as much.

 

[Rdgnik]

Not much with the stable build, unfortunately. That laptop GPU is holding you back a bit.

However, the test builds should allow you to make use of the QuickSync encoder on your Ivy Bridge CPU. You'll nee to have more bitrate for the sameish quality, but it should not impact your game performance as much.

Thanks for your reply, I just found my stream is still very watchable with like 2000-2200 bitrate, and if I go for the faster or even medium preset + 7-8 quality my fps drops by the same amount. Never heard about this encoder, already searching for some info, can you give me an idea of what is it? Thanks again.

 

[godlesas]

Not much with the stable build, unfortunately. That laptop GPU is holding you back a bit.

However, the test builds should allow you to make use of the QuickSync encoder on your Ivy Bridge CPU. You'll nee to have more bitrate for the sameish quality, but it should not impact your game performance as much.

Thanks for your reply, I just found my stream is still very watchable with like 2000-2200 bitrate, and if I go for the faster or even medium preset + 7-8 quality my fps drops by the same amount. Never heard about this encoder, already searching for some info, can you give me an idea of what is it? Thanks again.

You should leave preset at "veryfast" because it will use much less cpu and quality still be almost the same if you use 2500-3000kbps bitrate. I recommend you turn on CBR and set bitrate to 3000kbps. For me CBR fixed CPU spiking which caused sometimes games to lag. With CBR on CPU usage stays the same arround 30% (720p@60fps). I tried to stream CS:GO at 720p with CBR on and 3000kbps and quality was decent, I didn't notice any blurry stuff in VOD. Here's VOD http://www.twitch.tv/godlesaslol/b/422752380 (go to arround 12:00 minute mark because VOD got black screen in early minutes) stream might be choppy but I found a solution to fix it.

 

[Rdgnik]

You should leave preset at "veryfast" because it will use much less cpu and quality still be almost the same if you use 2500-3000kbps bitrate. I recommend you turn on CBR and set bitrate to 3000kbps. For me CBR fixed CPU spiking which caused sometimes games to lag. With CBR on CPU usage stays the same arround 30% (720p@60fps). I tried to stream CS:GO at 720p with CBR on and 3000kbps and quality was decent, I didn't notice any blurry stuff in VOD. Here's VOD http://www.twitch.tv/godlesaslol/b/422752380 (go to arround 12:00 minute mark because VOD got black screen in early minutes) stream might be choppy but I found a solution to fix it.

Woa thank you, actually a lot better with CBR activated, still having some drops but definitely less, ill keep tweaking it till i got a better in-game experience.

 

[godlesas]

You should leave preset at "veryfast" because it will use much less cpu and quality still be almost the same if you use 2500-3000kbps bitrate. I recommend you turn on CBR and set bitrate to 3000kbps. For me CBR fixed CPU spiking which caused sometimes games to lag. With CBR on CPU usage stays the same arround 30% (720p@60fps). I tried to stream CS:GO at 720p with CBR on and 3000kbps and quality was decent, I didn't notice any blurry stuff in VOD. Here's VOD http://www.twitch.tv/godlesaslol/b/422752380 (go to arround 12:00 minute mark because VOD got black screen in early minutes) stream might be choppy but I found a solution to fix it.

Woa thank you, actually a lot better with CBR activated, still having some drops but definitely less, ill keep tweaking it till i got a better in-game experience.

Try to use game capture and set fps_max to 129 in cs go so it doesn't spike that much. If you play on 66 tick servers you can even set it to fps_max 67. If you're feeling lucky you can even choose "superfast" preset which will use lot less cpu but may affect quality. Make sure multithreaded optimization is selected in OBS and in CSGO(multi core rendering).

P.S. AFAIK game capture uses GPU so if you lower graphic settings it may help.