Question / Help FPS dropping in certain games when streaming

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Saikayne

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I started streaming recently. When I try to stream Diablo 3 or Path of Exile my FPS drops while streaming fullscreen windowed mode, but it seems fine if I run the game in fullscreen mode, is there anything i can do about this?
 
No one has any idea if this problem can be solved? Did I post this in the wrong place? Any help would be appreciated
 
Needs to actually be from a live streaming session at least five minutes in length, to give good/usable data.
 
Here is my log file. Also the the in game fps drop happens even i just hit preview stream. My cpu and gpu both never go over 50% load I really can't figure out why it's causing a drop in my fps.
 

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Saikayne said:
Here is my log file. Also the the in game fps drop happens even i just hit preview stream. My cpu and gpu both never go over 50% load I really can't figure out why it's causing a drop in my fps.
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Enable Aero. also attempt to lower webcam resolution to equal or lower to your stream resolution (720p) for troubleshooting. once we get you working, you can play with raising this back up.
 
Try enabling Aero. Turning it off does not result in a speed boost, game and window capture are actually faster with it on; OBS can just grab from the offscreen Aero buffers, instead of having to use the fallback cap method. Other than that, I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
 
It was Aero, turning it back on got it fixed up. Thanks the help the guys. I thought I had read somewhere that it should always be disabled but it would seem that information was inaccurate.
 
Saikayne said:
It was Aero, turning it back on got it fixed up. Thanks the help the guys. I thought I had read somewhere that it should always be disabled but it would seem that information was inaccurate.
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uneducated inaccurate. It sounds like it would IF OBS didn't use Aero to accelerate the capture methods. OBS is pretty much the only app that does this for greater use of performance.
 
Saikayne said:
It was Aero, turning it back on got it fixed up. Thanks the help the guys. I thought I had read somewhere that it should always be disabled but it would seem that information was inaccurate.
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Not for OBS.
When Windows Vista first came out, Aero was kind of bloated. It's been refined greatly since then and hardware has improved by leaps and bounds; at this point, Aero's overhead is minimal at best... virtually unnoticeable from a performance standpoint if it's on or off.

But the classic complaints persist, because it used to work and be a valid performance improvement. That and because people who don't know write 'guides' that are just parroted wisdom. So the eternal game of Telephone rolls on. :)

Glad to hear it fixed things up!
 
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