Question / Help Encoding Overloaded Frame Drops Error (PLEASE HELP)

[Carnagealien1]

I don't know what's been going on as of late with my OBS application, I've been streaming for many months using OBS and it's been fine, absolutely zero FPS drops. Lately however, I can't go five minutes without FPS drops! It seems to only happen when I'm on my main gaming screen, but it's never been an issue until now for me. I rock an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, an Intel i7 7700k, 32gb ram, I have Gigabit internet with up to 400+mb/s download and ~20mb/s upload, so this shouldn't be causing any problems for me but over the past couple days I've noticed HUGE spikes in bitrate with it going over my max set bitrate of 6000 and way under as well, seeing the "Encoding Overloaded" error, frame drops, etc. I just want to know why it's an issue now when I've been doing fine streaming with no issues for the longest time until now.

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[coachcoop]

I'm having a VERY similar issue! Following

 

[Raimak]

Hi hello i have similar error, i do stream a lot of time but is now when happen the problem, i have an intel 7700k and a geforce gtx 1060 3g, and 500 mb dowload - 30 mb upload. I follow the post.

 

[Carnagealien1]

So what fixed it for me seemed to be turning off "Psycho-Visual Tuning" as well as "Look Ahead". Apex Legends didn't USED to eat up that much power but idk, apparently now it does. Turning off both of those decreased my FPS loss by a lot (nearly nothing now). If you haven't already, go to the Windows menu and search up "Game Bar" to turn it off. I already did that awhile ago and it did next to nothing for me but turning off the two new OBS options DID, so try that out.