Bug Report Encoding Overload Issue is affecting a majority of streamers, devs, please look into the issue

[villagebear]

As a streamer myself, I find it very frustrating. Whats even more frustrating is just about all the streamers I follow are encountering the issue. I've concluded that is NOT a an issue isolated issue. I have no once changed my settings in the past few months and only up until recently that I've encountered the problem also.

Encoding Overload. Encoder Lag to be specific from the log files. There is no need for me to post my log file I feel as everyone is having a similar issue. The Encoder in question is the x264 Encoder. THe NVENC x264 works fine for me, but as mentioned at a noticeable quality drop at the same Encoding and settings and on top of that, a weird input lag for me personally.

What is going on? Can any devs shed some light onto this issue? There will be more topics in regards to this but I feel like this needs to be sorted out somehow. I've also noticed that it only happens sometimes on specific games. From my experience, I cannot stream Left 4 Dead 2 and something more recenty, Nier Automata. Those trigger the encoding overload instantly, but with games like Overwatch, it doesn't prompt the overload issue, with the same settings. The same settings I've been using for quite some time. Also theres a 50/50 with Player Unknown's Battle Grounds from the streamers I follow.

My machine is more than capable of handling high settings and encoding, but theres just seems to be a weird bug or leak or something thats been going around for the past few weeks.

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My stream settings are usually x264 encoder, 3500 encoding, 60 FPS, downscale 720, high preset at fast CPU usage. Never had an issue up until recently. I messed around with the setting and lowering encoding etc, the problem persists.

Using the NVENC, everything runs practically fine on similar settings at 3500 and 4000 encoding. (but sure does look like crap)

So please, if you have the resources and time, please, PLEASE look into this matter.

 

[Fenrir]

Assuming we're just ignoring this issue is frankly ridiculous.

We've already investigated this, and there are very few common threads. Do you see the hundreds of posts with people with the same issue, all of them being caused by something completely different?

The most common causes of performance issues like this recently have been extremely bad antivirus (Avast/AVG), Windows updates, and other third-party "performance optimization" tools.

This is not an OBS issue, and instead of barking at the devs to fix something that isn't there fault, users should be more aware of the crap they install on their systems. We spend countless hours providing general PC support when people do things like this, because we genuinely care about the program and want people to understand any issues that come up.

Lastly, if you refuse to post a log, there's nothing we can do to help you. Outside the very recent (and public, see the sticky post about the Windows 10 CU? We've been very forward about it) issues I've described, every "encoding overloaded" case is going to be different.

EDIT: What will help most to discover any issues for your specific case would be to provide a clean log file.

To make a clean log file, first restart OBS, then start your stream/recording for ~30 seconds and stop it again. Make sure you replicate any issues as best you can, which means having any games/apps open and captured, etc. When you're done select Help > Log Files > Upload Current Log File. Copy the URL and paste it here.