Question / Help BF4/Arma 3 and OBS

[Scarlet]

I have had OBS for a few months. I have gone through all of the pinned threads, and tried to work the issues out so that I can host a "clean" stream.

When I load Arma 3, for the longest time, it wouldn't even show on OBS at all. It would just be a black screen the entire time. I finally got it to load a few nights ago, and I now have the issue that OBS Crashes the video drivers. Before the question is asked, yes, I tried refreshing drivers, switched drivers back a generation (back to the black screen) and even tried running without OBS. This lead to figuring out that everything works perfect, as long as OBS isn't open.

BF4: I wish i could explain how BAD OBS reacts with BF4. I have changed my Bitrate down to 1000, I have tried all of the connecting servers, I have run the throttling program to see if I am getting any throttling, which is says I am not, I have done Bitrate tests, and everything I can think of. OBS just causes the stream to absolutely spaz out, the stream fragments and gets artifacts, major amounts of buffering. It is just terrible. i have even tried turning down my video settings in game, to no avail.

Hardware isn't the issue. This is over three different computer systems, starting with a 4770k z87, then 3930k x79, and now on a 5960x x99 setup. Tri SLI with 780Ti's. Hardwired internet. Nothing seems to help at all.

I do live in South Korea, and thought maybe that was it and twitch hates that. I switched over to Hitbox.tv and everything is exactly the same, with the only link in between that hasn't actually worked, being OBS.

I have tried the San Francisco Server:

I tried the Singapore server:

I have tried New York:

Dallas:

I have tried setting the x264 CPU preset to lower settings to raise the quality and that does nothing other than warm the CPU up quicker.

I have the Process Priority Class as High. Bitrate is currently set to Garbage.

I have used NVidia Shadowplay to stream very clean streams, but I do not like having GEForce Experience on my PC, as it causes other issues that are well know and wide spread.

I am at the point of paying for XSplit, but I have heard really good things about OBS and want to see if I can get it figured out.

 

[Osiris]

Please post a log
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/

 

[Scarlet]

https://gist.github.com/19ccdf94d0857bf03d17

https://gist.github.com/50843649a96719ebb760

It seems to be saying that every server I have selected is a bad server.

 

[Osiris]

I don't see anything strange in that log, no skipped frames, only dropped frames when you were using 3500 kbps bitrate.
The stream being sent to Twitch seems just fine, this sounds more like a problem between you (as a viewer) and twitch. I assume you aren't partnered, which means when you view the stream, you are getting the data from San Francisco, USA.

Also set the keyframe interval to 2 in the advanced settings, it's unrelated though.

 

[Scarlet]

I have set them, and definitely not partnered. I am oonly streaming so friends can watch, and I will be benchmarking once I get the second computer up to record the main computer. I have changed the Key Frame Interval up to 2, and will see if I can figure out what is wrong. I watch a lot of streams and none of them give me these issues, and when i see them, everyone I have watching sayd theyI will try setting the server back to San Francisco as well, and see if that helps at all.