Question / Help Encoding overloaded

[gafflx]

I've been trying to stream Overwatch for a bit and everytime I get into a game I get the encoding overloaded warning and after 5 -10 min into the game the OBS freezes and I go offline even tho the OBS is still running.

I've been streaming with these setting:

1. https://gyazo.com/19f01682f9862c7ea3bbfd19eff3e6ef
2. https://gyazo.com/1911ac221bc614f3072a0e870f5d38e1

And the specs of my pc are:

Nvidia GTX 660
i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8GB RAM
1920x1080

Is there anything I have to change?

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi,

can you post a log once you have had the issue streaming as the current one doesn't show the issue. If you have had one recently you might be able to find an older log around that date.

I see though you are using x264 have you checked your cpu % when streaming? I would expect this is taking a beating hence the encoding overload. You could drop the preset down from veryfast to ultrafast to take some pressure off.

 

[gafflx]

Hi,

can you post a log once you have had the issue streaming as the current one doesn't show the issue. If you have had one recently you might be able to find an older log around that date.

I see though you are using x264 have you checked your cpu % when streaming? I would expect this is taking a beating hence the encoding overload. You could drop the preset down from veryfast to ultrafast to take some pressure off.

I don't think the CPU is the issue here because the % is always between 5% - 25%
here are the loog files from today, since it happened today.

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi,

is that % from the OBS status bar?

The logs show "Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 3578 (24.3%)"

The i5-4670K isn't that strong a CPU so I would review / trend the CPU when streaming and see what its % is at outside of OBS.

 

[gafflx]

Hi,

is that % from the OBS status bar?

The logs show "Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 3578 (24.3%)"

The i5-4670K isn't that strong a CPU so I would review / trend the CPU when streaming and see what its % is at outside of OBS.

Oh yea I guess I need to get it to ultrafast, thanks for the help. Really appreciate it
Think i can do anything else to make it better?