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Dragena96

Dragena96

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I have over 200 FPS in game but as soon as I even hit the preview button on OBS, I get 29 FPS and unplayable lag. I have done several of my own optimizations and tricks but to no avail. My upload is 26MB. Computer is decent, i7 and radeon HD 6900 series, 6gb of corsair dominator memory.

Attached is a log file..
 

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alpinlol

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Osiris said:
Your cpu is an old i7, they aren't that great for streaming. Drop the framerate to 30.
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besides that even if you are only streaming 480p

try using a clean scene with only game capture and aero disabled in this case and disable the webcam (this is only for testing purposes)
 
Dragena96

Dragena96

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You mean drop my FPS to 30 in video? I tried that, disabling the aero(even initially) and webcam but I'm still spiking from 29 to 170 constantly in my FPS. Yeah, my i7 is old, but I have streamed in the past, though never CS.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. This has been phasing me. Also, as a note, the game works well when I'm not FULLSCREEN, and just windowed(non fullscreen).
 
Dragena96

Dragena96

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Alternatively, perhaps you can cure my blackscreen game capture with fullscreen. I turned off my razer synapse already--thought it would fix it..but it didn't.
 
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alpinlol

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Dragena96 said:
Alternatively, perhaps you can cure my blackscreen game capture with fullscreen. I turned off my razer synapse already--thought it would fix it..but it didn't.
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make sure you dont have any overlay tools running like msi afterburner, overwolf or whatever else

and you might want to set some csgo startup options

-high -threads 4 +fps_max 160


and also test on a new and clean scene which only provides a game capture source nothing else (no webcam, no window capture, text capture etc.)
 
Dragena96

Dragena96

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I messed with the settings a lot and still nothing. I tried setting my stream settings to the absolute lowest, and had around 30 FPS. I then maxed all my settings to be HD and absolute highest and I still had 30 FPS. Not sure why that doesn't change but that may be something. I change video settings in-game but all that does is raise my 200 FPS when not streaming to 260+. I tried changing my x264 encoding to superfast/ultrafast but it had no impact on FPS. I also tried designating cores.

Any other avenues I could be looking at? Thanks.
 
Dragena96

Dragena96

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Here is an updated log file. I am currently playing a windowed resolution of my game to stream which isn't the best solution but it gives me about 80-100 fps. A side note, my processor has a passmark value of 5,431according to cpu benchmark.net. I'm using a radeon HD 6900 series also. Upgrading my cpu might not be a problem, but I do want to confirm this is my actual difficulty in streaming.

Thanks.
 

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Dragena96

Dragena96

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Yes, I am aware, building a PC is my specialty! Streaming efficiency is definitely not! T_T I just don't know where my bottleneck is in terms of having a quality stream. I just know it's not my internet capability. If it is my CPU, what average benchmark power should I be looking at for streaming let's say high motion, 30 FPS on at least 720p. Thanks.
 
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alpinlol

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the problem is actually the outdated architecture on the first gen i7's this causes in a few circumstances to perform quite horrible

usually if you are about to upgrade and plan to stream i would always suggest the latest i7 4790k or xeon e3 1231v3

going with the latest haswell e series ~330$ for 6 hyperthreaded cores will also force you to buy a 190$ mainboard and ~180$ ddr4 ram so technically in your case going with the latest haswell refresh will be the best


there is also the fx8 series from amd but when it comes to raw encoding power intel will beat the amd bu the price to performance factor will always be on amd side
 
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Rami Ojala

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Here is a silly question... Have you disabled encoding for preview window? I remember that being enabled destroyed my framerate with i7 930
 
Dragena96

Dragena96

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Ok thanks for the information, and yes, I tried disabling the preview on OBS. What bothers me though is that even if I choose 420p or 1080p, downscale/no downscale the fps is approximately the same around 10fps difference best to worst. It feels like I'm missing something more blatant. Although an upgrade is due and the haswell does look nice.
 
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Rami Ojala

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Dragena96 said:
Ok thanks for the information, and yes, I tried disabling the preview on OBS. What bothers me though is that even if I choose 420p or 1080p, downscale/no downscale the fps is approximately the same around 10fps difference best to worst. It feels like I'm missing something more blatant. Although an upgrade is due and the haswell does look nice.
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Sounds like speedstep thing is on in bios that controls cpu speed on the fly, i had that on and it drove me crazy until i disabled it in bios.
 
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