Question / Help FPS Drop In-game

[Gosu_Thune]

Hi all,

PC Specs:
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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz, 3193 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. SOX5810J.86A.4196.2009.0715.1958, 7/15/2009
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Graphics Processor AMD Radeon 7970
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I am getting into streaming (because I game a ton and watch a lot of streams), and the only reason I've waited so long is that I'm lazy =)

I'm having issues with my FPS when I use OBS (awesome software!), but only In-game. If I set stream to 60FPS I appear to get it when I watch my own stream, even though my FPS in LoL is stuck at 48... or 40... or 30. Always some particular number, but I can't ever seem to pinpoint why it does that. It's totally random to the best of my knowledge. It will change randomly without me altering anything. The first time I streamed with OBS I was at 80FPS the whole time, and then I realized I didn't have Aero turned off, so it hit me with the memory full thing and ever since I've been 48 or below.

If anyone could offer some advice that would be fantastic!

 

[hilalpro]

Update obs and provide a log file if possible.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=97

 

[Gosu_Thune]

Thank you for your response. I attached a log file.

Again, when I watch my stream twitch.tv/gosu_thune
it normally runs at a high FPS, but in the game I sit at 40 or below. I don't get how the stream can show a better video quality than the actual screen it is capturing.

 

[hilalpro]

No worries, You should try using the updated game capture rather than window capture since aero is currently disabled on your system.

Still you actually didn't lag much video frames when running the stream at a lower fps so set the stream at 30 fps, lower your in game graphics and pause your stream on twitch.

btw unless you have to be using mp3, aac is a better codec for this.

 

[Gosu_Thune]

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback. I'll test it out tonight.

 

[Gosu_Thune]

Alright, so I tried the new settings and it's still the same thing. Regardless of the settings in the game, or whether I capture screen or game source, I still get specifically between 30-48 FPS. Is there a setting I'm not seeing somewhere for my GPU specifically? It is only 1 year removed from being top of the line so I know it has the power to make this happen. It's really frustrating though that I am stuck under 60 FPS.

Maybe it's my CPU or RAM?

 

[Floatingthru]

It appears that you are using monitor capture and game capture at the same time. Unchecking your monitor capture source does not actually disable it, it only hides it. Delete that monitor capture source or make a new source with only game capture. If that fixes the problem then yay, if not lower the fps to 30, if it still lags cap the ingame fps and/or use vsync.

If you are playing a game windowed, turning on aero and then using window capture is 100% fine to do. If you want to use monitor capture turn off aero. If you want to not deal with aero at all upgrade to windows 8. (it's not as bad as people say it is I promise ;])

 

[hilalpro]

Alright, so I tried the new settings and it's still the same thing. Regardless of the settings in the game, or whether I capture screen or game source, I still get specifically between 30-48 FPS. Is there a setting I'm not seeing somewhere for my GPU specifically? It is only 1 year removed from being top of the line so I know it has the power to make this happen. It's really frustrating though that I am stuck under 60 FPS.

Maybe it's my CPU or RAM?

Have you tried running the game in full screen (non windowed) mode combined with a separate scene for game capture ?