Question / Help Dropped Frames/Below 60FPS on 144hz monitor

[Do A Barrel Troll]

Hi, I've been streaming for quite some time now, and recently I got a new setup which should be able to stream at 60fps easily. However, I'm running into some issues lately that obs is showing the stream below 60fps and there are quite a few dropped frames.

System info:
CPU- Intel i7-7700k @4.2 GHZ
Ram- 32gb
GPU- Asus gtx1080ti turbo
3 monitors- Main display 144hz, other 2 displays at 60hz

Download/upload speed estimates- 100mbps download, 900mbps upload
Attached is the most recent log file from my stream.

 

[SumDim]

Its a problem running mixed 60Hz with 144Hz or faster monitors.

Launch and run OBS Studio on the fastest monitor (but you cant see OBS running because its covered up... not a great solution)

Or...
Disable OBS Preview and run it on the slower 60Hz monitor
Preview is good for seeing if your stream/recording is live. You don't really need it up. You can instead rely on use View | Stats and move the stats window to the 2nd 60hz monitor to see that its live and encoding/rendering stats).

Or...
Buy another 144Hz monitor, same brand, same model (more $$$) and run OBS on it.

 

[Do A Barrel Troll]

Yeah, I think I will disable OBS preview so I can still see the stats, hoping that fixes the issue. Thanks!

 

[SumDim]

Your welcome. Please follow up with a post if that resolved the problem as it will help others.

 

[Do A Barrel Troll]

Will do. Plan to test it out later tonight.

 

[Do A Barrel Troll]

So that unfortunately did not solve the issue

 

[BK-Morpheus]

Can you create a new log, with an actual recording/streaming attempt in it?
If you problems is caused by 144+60Hz problem, you should get rid of it, by not having any GPU accelerated programs (like OBS+preview or a Web Browser with stream/video content) open on the second monitor.

If your problem is caused by the lack of an fps limit in your game, we might see some rendering problems in your log file.

 

[Do A Barrel Troll]

There's no fps drop or limit in game, it's just on obs/stream that I'm getting the dropped frames/lag.
Here's log file: https://gist.github.com/6be302e162f7c84d0f89e5f13d6120b0

 

[Do A Barrel Troll]

I could just be missing something. Will try using window capture as opposed to capture any fullscreen application. Not sure if that could be it or not

 

[BK-Morpheus]

Your new log is still not showing any recording/stream.
You need to start and later end your recording/stream, before uploading the log file.

Without an ingame fps limit, your stream will most certainly suffer from more than 90% GPU load which leaves OBS not enough GPU resources to render the scene fast enough.
Also I would disable Windows 10 Game DVR.