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ButcherDude
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What are the best stable settings with minimal audio lag that you all have found? I've been struggling the past month or so with the audio skipping or cutting out on occasion since the latest OBS update
Acey05
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It's a long list, but short story is, if you set your Audio to "Unbuffered" (under AV), it should work (although you still get the occasional 1 second audio cuts and any new Stream will have static for a few seconds at the start) while losing slight game/network performance.
Also make sure to restart your OBS between games.
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Long story: Every since AFTER OBS 27 (and that period of time with a specific revision of NDI + Windows + Nvidia updates related to WDDM), anything that "spikes" your PC usage from a "low state to maximum state" (mostly on weaker PC's I think) will start lagging the audio.
Please note nVidia is especially notorious for their Audio DPC Latency issues ever since the 1000GTX Series, and no one has tried to find a proper workaround (other than making your CPU and GPU no idle and always work at 25% power levels or P1/0 State).
For example (depending on Hardware and Drivers): Start OBS > Start Game = Audio Lag. HOWEVER, if you Start Game > Start OBS = No audio lag UNLESS the game does some fancy loading where they switch power states on you hardware (ei; old games like Deus Ex 2).
If game is hitting upper limits of your Hardware while doing extra work (ei; UE5 Game caching Shaders), you get Complete Audio Dsync at best, 3-9 seconds of cut audio at worst.
If Game has multiple options for Audio, try and switch them around before you start streaming or recording, since changing them Mid OBS usage will sometimes completely break the audio and requires restarting both OBS and the Game.
Some people reported setting Audios channels (both OBS and PC, as well Mic) to 44Khz instead of 48 Khz improved the Audio Lag issues (I personally saw no difference and it's placebo at best).
People with more expensive GPU (which have 2 Encoders) reported not having these issues compared to Mono-Encoder cards (like the x60 Series on nVidia).
Some people reported disabling the Intel Microcode related to Meltdown improved the issues (it improved performace for me, but not the Audio issues).
Some people reported Software for Mice and Keyboards (ei; ICUE) can be another source of issue. I can confirm that, but they're usually an issue for your entire PC and not only OBS (especially ASUS Crate).
Don't ask my collectively everyone decided to break stuff right around 2022.