Question / Help Graphics flipping out in Spore

[atheist4thecause]

When I stream Spore using OBS, the graphics act really funny on my stream but are fine on my computer. Sometimes the picture turns green and purple. When it's not doing that, the picture is a tiny little box. I'm using an older graphics card (NVIDIA GT440) but it's supposed to be plenty good for Spore. I tried using both the 32-bit and 64-bit OBS systems and both act up in the same ways. Please help.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I use Windows 7 64-bit operating system, I have a 3.6 GHz AMD FX-4100 Quad Core processor and 8 GB of RAM as well.

 

[TimeRocker]

Post your OBS log file so we can see all your settings, as they may be too high or your game graphics settings are too high in order for you to stream the without your GPU being pushed beyond its limit

 

[atheist4thecause]

Post your OBS log file so we can see all your settings, as they may be too high or your game graphics settings are too high in order for you to stream the without your GPU being pushed beyond its limit

The log file is attached.

 

[TimeRocker]

Make sure to uncheck "disable windows aero." Game capture and window capture works much better with it on. You also have an extremely old graphics card so try also lowering the settings on spore and make it windowed instead of full screen and turn off vsync.

If that still doesnt work, install MSI Afterburner and look at you GPU usage. If its sitting at 100% or a little below that that could be part of your problem.

I also lurked your Twitch page and saw what its doing. It looks like you are playing the game full screen which will have issues when switching between windows. Try playing the game in a window or make the game full screen(windowed/free)

 

[atheist4thecause]

Make sure to uncheck "disable windows aero." Game capture and window capture works much better with it on. You also have an extremely old graphics card so try also lowering the settings on spore and make it windowed instead of full screen and turn off vsync.

If that still doesnt work, install MSI Afterburner and look at you GPU usage. If its sitting at 100% or a little below that that could be part of your problem.

I also lurked your Twitch page and saw what its doing. It looks like you are playing the game full screen which will have issues when switching between windows. Try playing the game in a window or make the game full screen(windowed/free)

I tried lowering the graphics and it didn't help. I also tried with Aero both on and off and neither helped.The game is supposed to run on max settings on the GT220. I also was playing on both full screen and windowed mode and it was doing the same thing. I guess I could try to dl that program. Any other ideas?

EDIT: My video card is a 1GB GDDR5 card, and I have the graphics cache size at 1GB. I'm not sure what that does really, but basically the more cache the lower the load time is I think. Should I turn that down?

 

[TimeRocker]

If you are overclocking the card in any way, that can always result in very strange problems. Also when the game gets really small, try either clicking properties on the game capture and refresh it, or delete the game capture source and enter it in again and see if that fixes it

 

[atheist4thecause]

If you are overclocking the card in any way, that can always result in very strange problems. Also when the game gets really small, try either clicking properties on the game capture and refresh it, or delete the game capture source and enter it in again and see if that fixes it

The windowed mode might have helped the game getting small problem, but the flickering is still happening. I'm not sure. I did just get that program you told me to get and nothing was coming close to being maxed out. The GPU was at like 11% usage. I have 8 GB of ram and only about 2-2.5 GB were being used. I can stream World of Tanks just fine (although I don't max out the settings).

 

[TimeRocker]

Try also using the 32bit version of OBS and not 64. Also you said that this issue only happens on the stream itself and not on your game or in the OBS preview?

I noticed as well that your keyframe interval is not set to 2, so make sure to do that.

 

[atheist4thecause]

Try also using the 32bit version of OBS and not 64. Also you said that this issue only happens on the stream itself and not on your game or in the OBS preview?

I noticed as well that your keyframe interval is not set to 2, so make sure to do that.

I did try both the 32-bit and 64-bit OBS clients and both did the same thing. Also, I looked in both the 32-bit and 64-bit clients and both keyframe intervals are set to 2. And yes, the problems are only on the stream. Spore works perfectly on my screen.