I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon of dropped frames complaints. I get a ton of dropped frames in heavy motion and engagement scenes. This only happened with the recent version of OBS.
I decided to upgrade from 0.44a to the latest to test out gamecapture. In 0.44a I never had framedrops at all.
In 0.44a, what happened in high motion scenes was first that the bitrate increased, and if the bitrate maxed out as according to the set bitrate and buffer, the quality would instead lower itself automatically instead of dropping frames.
With the new version something is amiss as this is no longer happening. As I review the footage I see that the video just freezes instead.
The version that I'm using with framedrops is 0.448a.
Again, I repeat that the older version did not have this issue.
I have to mention that in the old version I was using window capture as opposed to game capture in the new version. I don't know if this is important information.
Here's the log :
I decided to upgrade from 0.44a to the latest to test out gamecapture. In 0.44a I never had framedrops at all.
In 0.44a, what happened in high motion scenes was first that the bitrate increased, and if the bitrate maxed out as according to the set bitrate and buffer, the quality would instead lower itself automatically instead of dropping frames.
With the new version something is amiss as this is no longer happening. As I review the footage I see that the video just freezes instead.
The version that I'm using with framedrops is 0.448a.
Again, I repeat that the older version did not have this issue.
I have to mention that in the old version I was using window capture as opposed to game capture in the new version. I don't know if this is important information.
Here's the log :
Open Broadcaster Software v0.448a - 32bit (´・ω・`)
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CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU Speed: 3300MHz
Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
stepping id: 7, model 10, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 4, total cores 4
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Adapter 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Video Adapeter Dedicated Video Memory: 1293352960
Video Adapeter Shared System Memory: 2952957952
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Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 5
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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Warning -- SharedTexCapture::Init: Could not open file mapping
Total frames rendered: 3269, number of frames that lagged: 1 (0.03%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 10
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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Total frames rendered: 197, number of frames that lagged: 0 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 10
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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Total frames rendered: 160, number of frames that lagged: 1 (0.63%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 10
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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using shared texture capture
Total frames rendered: 15092, number of frames that lagged: 40 (0.27%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 10
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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using shared texture capture
Total frames rendered: 213, number of frames that lagged: 1 (0.47%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================
Send Buffer Size: 1460
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1920x1080
Output resolution: 1280x720
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Line In (ASUS Xonar Essence ST Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using audio/video sync fix
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1280, height: 720
quality: 10
preset: veryfast
i444: no
max bitrate: 3000
buffer size: 1000
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using shared texture capture
Total frames rendered: 382361, number of frames that lagged: 48 (0.01%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
Number of b-frames dropped: 29838, Number of p-frames dropped: 0
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Profiler results:
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frame - [100%] [avg time: 2.138 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 78.7%] [unaccounted: 21.3%]
| scene->Preprocess - [0.0468%] [avg time: 0.001 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [78.7%] [avg time: 1.682 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 40.7%] [unaccounted: 37.9%]
| | CopyResource - [0.561%] [avg time: 0.012 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [2.1%] [avg time: 0.045 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [38.1%] [avg time: 0.814 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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Memory Leaks Were Detected.