Question / Help Dual pc streaming issues.

[Arro]

Hello and thanks for checking this thread out, it is a bit long but if you can help I would be very greatful.
A short backstory, I´v been doing some recording and it has been very successful but now I want to move onto streaming.
Me and my friend have been setting it up as best we can but without much luck. We decided to go with 2 pc streaming since we play fairly intense games and we read up on our options and thought it would fit best. So here are the details, I´ll try to be as specific as I can.

Gaming PC specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5
Processor: I7-4770 3.40 GHz
Memory 24Gb 1600 Mhz DDR 3
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti
Storage: 2 x SSD´s (one with OS and one for games)
OS: Windows 10

Streaming PC specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4
Processor: I7-2600K 3.40 GHz
Memory 16Gb 1300 Mhz DDR 3
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 580
Storage: One SSD for OS
Streaming Card: Avermedia C985
OS: Windows 10

Now onto how things are connected at the moment.

Gaming pc has:
3 monitors connected via displayport, dvi, dvi
USB micraphone AT2020
3.5mm headphones connected to the motherboard.
Avermedia card connected through HDMI to streaming PC

Streaming pc has:
Logitech Webcam via USB
1 monitor via DVI

Firstly and most importantly I have not been able to get my stream stable, we´v been trying different settings and reading a bunch on how we could optimize without luck.
So I´m gonna post a few screenshots off how OBS is set up, this is the best setup we have come up with but still fairly bad.

Avermedia card setup as a video capture device.
http://puu.sh/muM2q/2d61bc29df.png

Obs Settings in general
http://puu.sh/muM4T/29709860fd.png Encoding
http://puu.sh/muM6q/81b43c5eb0.png Video
http://puu.sh/muM9p/75c9098176.png Audio
http://puu.sh/muM9V/b576b3a516.png Advanced

Also this is how I have the screen setup on my gaming pc, this way I duplicate whats on my main monitor and what avermedia card see´s.
http://puu.sh/muMrR/8b2cfa948d.png

This is all I have for this I think, I have a 100mb up and 100 mb down internet but it sometimes goes down to 60-70 for some reason.

The other thing I want to mention is I need ideas how to get ingame sound+micraphone too the streaming pc, so far we are using :
http://puu.sh/muMKv/c52941ed05.png
http://puu.sh/muMLI/93a16f7832.png

But that makes the audio have latency and bad quality, we are just using that as a placeholder until we find a proper solution.
Ideas:
1. Getting a soundboard or something similar (not entirly sure which one or if it´s not to expensive)
2. Using Audio repeater software, (we tried but we couldnt get it working, maybe we have to buy it)
3. Connecting Micraphone to Streaming pc and use a normal 3.5 jack from gaming pc to streaming pc and than again from streaming pc to headphones. The issue with this is than I cant use my proper micraphone on my gaming pc.

Anyway if you read through all this thank you so much, if you have any input I would be forever greatful.
I´ll be as active as I can responding to questions and testing ideas. Once again thanks for reading and hope we can get this going properly.

 

[Boildown]

Post an OBS log file from your best attempt at streaming. Screenshots of your settings have little value.

Personally I just Y cable my stereo front outputs and put one end into the line-in of my streaming PC, and the other end into my headphones. For microphones, I have two, one on push to talk on my gaming PC, and one permanently ON (but has a button on the mic to turn it off) that goes to my streaming PC. They sit side-by-side on my desk. I use a noise gate on the streaming PC microphone in OBS to eliminate background noise when I'm not talking.

 

[Arro]

Alright, I have now done a fairly long test stream while I was afk actually and my friend was watching and the same buffering issue seemed to be going on but a bit less than often before. Here is the log for that, I do not really know what I´m looking for in there but maybe you can help.

 

[Boildown]

On the OBS side your statistics are excellent. No problems. If there's buffering, its not the problem of your stream but of the viewer's ability to download the stream.

 

[Arro]

Okey that might be a thing, are there any improvements you think I could make or things I can try out to boost my performance, I´d love to be able to stream 60fps properly, some people say I can make my processor do more work and maybe overclock it a bit and have it to even more not sure though. Any thoughts? I see that you actually have the same processor on your streaming pc.

 

[Boildown]

20:42:02: Total frames encoded: 213579, total frames duplicated: 134 (0.06%)
20:42:02: Total frames rendered: 213605, number of late frames: 1 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)

You could try going to Medium preset. Just watch the duplicated frames... over 1% and its quite noticeable IMO. I like to keep mine under .5% for an average stream, but I don't make adjustments unless it goes over 1% rarely or over .5% consistently. At 0.06% you may have room to increase your quality per bitrate (i.e. move the preset a notch, from fast to medium) and keep the duplicated frames in the acceptable range.