Question / Help CHOPPY STREAM! GOOD PC NO FPS DROPS IN OBS OR GAME CANT FIX S.O.S!

[dmitri]

I can not find any help on reddit, YouTube, steam and nothing comes up on Google, i tried everything.... re-installing both games and obs, lower bitrate, streaming to another server, changing game settings, lower base resolution in obs, streaming at a lower fps, streaming at a higher fps and this is only obs, tried streaming with shadow play and that was fine nothing works here are my specs, speedtest results, obs settings too! ask if you anything else i will post photo just please help me, one more thing, i have used obs for about 8 months with out ever changing the settings and recently it just started doing this after i tried to stream a game that i always stream but with a Logitech G27 wheel. I had Logitech profiler installed for the wheel and that is not the problem too, i tried uninstalling the profiler and that still didn't fix it....

PC SPECS:
cpu: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz overclocked to 4.2GHz
cooler: Corsair H100i
gpu: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 Overclocked by 5% and custom fan curve
mobo: MSI Z77A-GD65
ram: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
psu: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
hdd: Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 32MB Cache

btw, this obs thing was happening before i overclocked my cpu and gpu, when they were both stock clocks obs was still "broken"

OBS SETTINGS:
these are links to the pics i posted on dropshots!

broadcasting settings: http://www.dropshots.com/DmitriT/date/2014-12-20/09:17:51
Encoding: http://www.dropshots.com/DmitriT/date/2014-12-20/09:13:13
General: http://www.dropshots.com/DmitriT/date/2014-12-20/09:13:09
Advanced: http://www.dropshots.com/DmitriT/date/2014-12-20/09:11:03

SPEEDTEST RESULTS:

http://www.dropshots.com/DmitriT/date/2014-12-20/09:28:57

Yes, i do have at&t U-verse BUT i only have the internet, no phone or TV connected to the router. I am the only one who uses the upload for the most part in my house! and btw I have always streamed at 3500 birate way before obs starting having problems.

if you need anything else please ask, and one more thing... the choppyness is random it is always there but sometimes it gets worse. on a good day, it is there but kind of hard to see, you would have to be looking at obs and the game at the sometime that way you will see it for sure. but even if the choppyness is low it will eventually become very choppy later on in stream and fix itself and do it all over again!

thanks for reading and hope you can help!

 

[Jack0r]

Instead of making screenshots you can just:
Problem? Make sure to post a log and/or crash dump -- HOWTO
That gives us all info about your system we need that you had to type out now.

Without the log I can only tell you that you are near the Twitch.tv limits by using 3500kbit bitrate. You could check a local recording for choppyness, if that is fine, it could be twitch. But better post us a log.

 

[dmitri]

Instead of making screenshots you can just:
Problem? Make sure to post a log and/or crash dump -- HOWTO
That gives us all info about your system we need that you had to type out now.

Without the log I can only tell you that you are near the Twitch.tv limits by using 3500kbit bitrate. You could check a local recording for choppyness, if that is fine, it could be twitch. But better post us a log.

here is my last log: https://gist.github.com/0e8c18741a3dea24c0ba
I wasnt streaming it might be when i was previewing my streaming trying to fix the choppiness and lower bitrate dose nothing, i tried lowering it to 2000, 1000 even 500 still the same choppiness

 

[OminousZ]

In your broadcast, i've noticed your delay is at 5 sec. Set that to zero...twitch has a delay anyway. And if you're using Win. 8, uncheck the Aero. Or if you're streaming with Game Capture, uncheck aero and try it. But Twitch could be having issues as well or the server that you use to broadcast to, may be having issues. Try changing server locations as well. Do you get any FPS drops in OBS or a yellow/red box while streaming?

 

[dmitri]

In your broadcast, i've noticed your delay is at 5 sec. Set that to zero...twitch has a delay anyway. And if you're using Win. 8, uncheck the Aero. Or if you're streaming with Game Capture, uncheck aero and try it. But Twitch could be having issues as well or the server that you use to broadcast to, may be having issues. Try changing server locations as well. Do you get any FPS drops in OBS or a yellow/red box while streaming?

most of the time no I dont get any fps drops but sometimes I do and I have to restart obs to fix that. i tried streaming to a different server which did help a little but the quality isn't what it used to be still

 

[OminousZ]

most of the time no I dont get any fps drops but sometimes I do and I have to restart obs to fix that. i tried streaming to a different server which did help a little but the quality isn't what it used to be still

What is your ISP upload speed?

 

[dmitri]

4.84mbps

 

[OminousZ]

4.84mbps

Trying lowering it to about 2000 and work up from there.

 

[Sapiens]

@OminousZ You can't disable Aero in Windows 8. Game capture does not benefit from disabling Aero. In Vista/7 it needs to be on for window capture and off for monitor capture. That's it.

@dmitri You need to verify where the problem is before you do anything else. The log you posted was already 13 hours old when you uploaded it and wasn't from a streaming attempt. System performance seems to be an unlikely culprit, so you need to determine if you're dropping frames or getting playback buffering from Twitch.

- Please upload a new log from a streaming attempt.
- If you go back and watch one of your past broadcasts on Twitch, does the same thing happen, even if you let the playback buffer first?
- When you stream, is OBS reporting a lot of dropped frames at the bottom of its window?

 

[dmitri]

@OminousZ You can't disable Aero in Windows 8. Game capture does not benefit from disabling Aero. In Vista/7 it needs to be on for window capture and off for monitor capture. That's it.

@dmitri You need to verify where the problem is before you do anything else. The log you posted was already 13 hours old when you uploaded it and wasn't from a streaming attempt. System performance seems to be an unlikely culprit, so you need to determine if you're dropping frames or getting playback buffering from Twitch.

- Please upload a new log from a streaming attempt.
- If you go back and watch one of your past broadcasts on Twitch, does the same thing happen, even if you let the playback buffer first?
- When you stream, is OBS reporting a lot of dropped frames at the bottom of its window?

here is a log of an actual stream, i lowered the bitrate and changed the server that i stream, which helped but made the stream look like poop. in my last stream i tried to switch back to my original bitrate which made the stream look better and i wasnt dropping any frames, didnt change the server that i was streaming too, after some time the fps did start to drop but i had 0.00% dropped frames and at one point the fps was only dropping by 1 frame but the stream was back to being choppy.
log: https://gist.github.com/c17cb8304d894756fa0f

 

[Sapiens]

Sounds like a case of stream playback buffering. Read
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...oads-constantly-for-my-viewers-but-why.18465/

Playback buffering is unique for every viewer, so just because you get buffering doesn't mean other viewers do. There are also a few adjustments you can make to your stream settings to improve quality at lower bitrates.

- Not sure how you settled on 38 FPS, change that back to 30.
- Change your downscale resolution to 1280x720.
- Change your bitrate to 2500.

You should end up with a stream that looks good and is watchable by most people.