Question / Help Can you help me locate my bottleneck?

[Vimpel]

Hey everyone

I'm near desperate for some help to figure out why streaming affects my performance so much.

I would like to stream WildStar with my current ingame settings (medium/low), in 1080p and 30 fps.

At times the game runs okay, and I only lose about 7-10 fps when streaming - and sometimes I drop down to 15 fps ingame, making it unplayable while streaming.

A friend told me to run OBS from a different HD than my OS and game - but it didn't seem to do much (main HD is SSD, secondary is optical).

Here's a video of my last session:
http://www.twitch.tv/vimpelol/b/571717281
(Quick question - is higher bitrate = less grainyness?)

And here's the logfile from that session:
http://pastebin.com/9RevxCGX

Do I really need to upgrade my hardware, or can I optimize by changing setup/settings?

Thanks in advance :-)

 

[Sapiens]

You would be better off downscaling your stream to 1280x720 (Settings > Video > Resolution Downscale in OBS) with that system as Wildstar is pretty demanding, see if it helps.

 

[Vimpel]

You would be better off downscaling your stream to 1280x720 (Settings > Video > Resolution Downscale in OBS) with that system as Wildstar is pretty demanding, see if it helps.

Thanks a ton for your reply Sapiens. Any comments on where I would need to upgrade in order to achieve my prefered stream quality? 720p looks kinda meh.

In other words, can you see what's holding me back at the moment? My best guess is my processor, but it's expensive and risky to upgrade based on a guess.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yeah, the i5 series tend to run out of gas after around 720@30fps.

Do be aware that at 3000kbps, unless you're a Partnered caster, you're likely shutting out a noticeable portion of your potential viewer-base. The "golden point" for non-partnered casters is 720p@30fps, 2000kbps. Especially for a high-motion game (eg: any FPS or third-person MMO, like Wildstar), you need more bitrate at a given res/fps level to get good results doing anything but sitting still and not moving the camera at all.

You really, really need to downscale, for multiple reasons.

 

[Vimpel]

Thanks a lot both of you :-)