Hey,
I'm new to OBS, but I did some streaming in the past using Shadowplay. I play WoW and my goal is to stream my Raids. Yesterday I did it, but after ~30 minutes or so, my FPS dropped to about 20-30, when I'm used do raid with 50-60 FPS. With Shadowplay, I had the same problem and it was related to my drives. I have a SSD (C:) and a HDD (D: and E:). WoW is installed in C: and I had to configure Shadowplay to save my stream's temporary files in my HDD. From this experience, I learned that is not good to use the same drive for playing the game and creating temporary files.
I searched but didn't find any option to choose a path for my temporary files in OBS, so I'm asking for your help to address this issue. I don't know if this might be related to my problem, but I'm streaming using my graphics card (NVENC encoder) instead of my CPU. I did it because I'm not sure if loading my CPU for some hours per day will reduce it's lifetime, and this isn't something I want. The same would apply to my graphics card, but since WoW uses lots of CPU power and not so much graphics card power, I decided to go in this direction (any tips about this decision, which is kinda off-topic, would also be appreciated).
In this video you can see my FPS drop:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/170611805
At about 6:50 you can see my FPS steadily at 65 (I limited it in game to be so) and droping to 30 when I alt-tabbed, which is normal when running in the background. At 49:00 you can see my FPS at ~40 and dropping even more when the fight starts, which isn't normal.
I have attached the log file of this stream and I'm looking forward to solving this problem.
Thank you in advance!!
I'm new to OBS, but I did some streaming in the past using Shadowplay. I play WoW and my goal is to stream my Raids. Yesterday I did it, but after ~30 minutes or so, my FPS dropped to about 20-30, when I'm used do raid with 50-60 FPS. With Shadowplay, I had the same problem and it was related to my drives. I have a SSD (C:) and a HDD (D: and E:). WoW is installed in C: and I had to configure Shadowplay to save my stream's temporary files in my HDD. From this experience, I learned that is not good to use the same drive for playing the game and creating temporary files.
I searched but didn't find any option to choose a path for my temporary files in OBS, so I'm asking for your help to address this issue. I don't know if this might be related to my problem, but I'm streaming using my graphics card (NVENC encoder) instead of my CPU. I did it because I'm not sure if loading my CPU for some hours per day will reduce it's lifetime, and this isn't something I want. The same would apply to my graphics card, but since WoW uses lots of CPU power and not so much graphics card power, I decided to go in this direction (any tips about this decision, which is kinda off-topic, would also be appreciated).
In this video you can see my FPS drop:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/170611805
At about 6:50 you can see my FPS steadily at 65 (I limited it in game to be so) and droping to 30 when I alt-tabbed, which is normal when running in the background. At 49:00 you can see my FPS at ~40 and dropping even more when the fight starts, which isn't normal.
I have attached the log file of this stream and I'm looking forward to solving this problem.
Thank you in advance!!
