Question / Help Darksiders drops FPS to 15-20

[JordanMillward_1]

For some reason, despite the fact that with my current settings I can stream the likes of Skyrim, etc, at 60fps, when I try to stream Darksiders, it drops to around 15FPS, and stays that way, except when I go back to my desktop, when it then goes back to 60FPS, suggesting it is something to do with the game.

Here is my log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e4034ac3b9230a3be899

If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Lain]

Your window capture or something is causing a lot of lag in drawing. THough that could just be when you're alt-tabbed out of the game, not entirely sure what's going on.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

Window capture isn't even selected as a source when I did that.

It's only Darksiders that does this too (well, that and Saints Row 4, but that's a known issue), so I have no idea what is causing it.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

Any ideas on what might be causing it?

 

[Lain]

Not a clue unfortunately. At this point I've really got to rely on you to do some tests or something to figure out what's affecting what. For example, you've got [x] number of sources in a scene, you'd want to try disabling each source one at a time and seeing what effects what. I just can't really tell on my end what's going on. All I can tell you is that in that particular log file there's a lot of lag, and that it was most likely coming from a window capture. Not sure if it was related to darksiders though, like I said it could have been when you were alt-tabbed.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/67679ca8875c32e5c29c

I tried a few things - the only time I got anywhere close to playable FPS (40-45) was when I made a completely new scene with no other sources, and then when I added sources, it stayed stable. If I had other sources already there, it only ran in 15-20 FPS.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

Darksiders even caused a reduction in FPS to 15-20 when it wasn't being used as a source at all - when I just had my intro screen up, and then started running the game, the FPS dropped from 60 to 15, when the game wasn't even being broadcast or viewed by OBS.

 

[Lain]

Seems like one of the sources may be causing it. Again I still see window capture in that log file, it seems like it could be a probable cause though I just can't know for sure.