Question / Help Great computer, lagging stream. Help?

[Kiafayce]

When I tried to stream, there was a minute of lag with audio and my face was constantly frozen. I've never done any kind of stream before so if I'm making a mistake, tell me and I'll learn.

These are my system settings. I used the estimator and read the forum and I still don't understand what I did wrong. What should my settings be? (I'm going to probably give more information than is needed)


OS: Windows-8.1/ 64 bit
Processor: Intel i7-4500U @ 1.80 GHz 2.40 GHz
Ram: 8GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 740M
Down Speed: 18.97 Mbps
Up Speed: 1.99 Mbps
Screen Res: 1366 x 768
I was trying to stream singleplayer Minecraft.
All non-essential programs were closed, processes ended.
My computer's name is Tucker. GOD DAMN IT, TUCKER.


What should my settings be?

 

[alpinlol]

make sure to post a log

 

[Kiafayce]

Just kidding, found it.

here's the log: I edited all these settings before streaming though.



Multiple video cards detected

If you are having problems and are using a laptop, see this thread for advice.

If you are using SLI or Crossfire, you may need to disable it for compatibility with OBS.

Skipped frames detected

The video encoder is unable to encode your frames in realtime, causing skipped frames. This is often caused by running at too high of a resolution / FPS combination for your CPU. Try lowering your resolution and/or FPS. If you have changed the x264 preset, put it back to default (veryfast).

Wireless detected

You appear to be streaming over a wireless connection. While this can be OK, keep in mind that interference from other radio sources or obstacles can cause your connection to momentarily stall, resulting in dropped frames or disconnects. A wired connection is strongly recommended for a reliable stream.

Possible slow server

The server you are streaming to (rtmp://live-lax.justin.tv/app) took 777 ms to connect. This may mean your connection or the server is slow, or the server is far away from you. If you are using twitch.tv, you may want to try using JTVPing to find an optimal server.

VBR in use

Consider enabling CBR for improved stream quality. CBR will use a fixed bitrate which allows a smoother network stream, reducing the chances of frame drops for both you and your viewers.

Slower preset in use

You have changed the default preset to medium. Using slower presets can result in late frames and high CPU usage / low FPS. You should only change the preset if you are sure you have the CPU power to spare.

Late frames detected

13.45% of your frames are late. This means the frames are being generated later than they were needed, causing your stream FPS to drop. Late frames are often caused by slow sources such as monitor capture, slow video capture devices or by trying to run your stream at too high of a resolution / FPS.

If you are using a webcam, try to lower the resolution of it. If you are using monitor capture, try switching to game source or window capture. If you must use monitor capture, ensure Aero is disabled.

You can also try lowering the resolution or FPS of your stream if you have an older CPU.

See https://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11641 for more information on how to resolve this issue.

 

[alpinlol]

thats not actually a log ... thats just the result of the log analyzer

 

[Kiafayce]

I'm sorry. Like I said I don't know what I'm doing here.

Is this it?

https://gist.github.com/71b451d291dcbcd95b98

 

[alpinlol]

yes thats the right one

in the end you tried to stream on medium preset dont do it

since your screen is 1366x768 you dont have to really downscale you should be able to run your desktop resolution without having obs to downscale it.

but you have literally a shitton of late and duplicaded frames meaning something is blocking.

make sure that your nvidia gpu is chosen as video adapter and also make sure that you give obs the rights to "run as admin"

since you are on 2mbit upload i would suggest not going any higher than ~1250 bitrate

another thing is "javaw.exe" (thats most likely java runtime) obs is trying to capture something since you are on win8 you might try 3 different capture methods which all should be working fine monitor/window/game-capture

change your profile in advanced settings to main and change the keyframe interval to 2

 

[Kiafayce]

Thank you. Another tutorial I was reading told me setting it on the medium preset would help fix the problem...frustration outruled common sense on that one.

I'll try your suggestions later tonight and let you know how it goes.

 

[alpinlol]

Thank you. Another tutorial I was reading told me setting it on the medium preset would help fix the problem...frustration outruled common sense on that one.

I'll try your suggestions later tonight and let you know how it goes.

the slower the preset the more the taxing ond your cpu veryfast is the most balanced preset thats why its default most of the time faster and fast is manageable by actual desktop cpu's like an i7 4770k but everything below fast will start taxing really hard so your cpu is going to be maxed out at 100% by just encoding and you are not even playing. which means, since you went on medium your problem got even worse


edit* i reread the first topic and saw that you are playing and trying to stream minecraft which explains why java is running.
in this case try using window capture or monitor capture and see if that fixes anything

another test would be to delete the whole webcam source and try to stream without your webcam

 

[Kiafayce]

I've fixed what you've recommended and also put a few settings back to default. Now, OBS will crash no matter what I'm doing- stream, webcam, no webcam, trying different games, etc. I tried recording a game called Victory At Sea to a file (not streaming) and OBS crashed in the preview. Everything else on my computer is running perfectly.

Here's the crash report and the dump. What the hell am I doing wrong?


OBS has encountered an unhandled exception and has terminated. If you are able to
reproduce this crash, please submit this crash report on the forums at
http://www.obsproject.com/ - include the contents of this crash log and the
minidump .dmp file (if available) as well as your regular OBS log files and
a description of what you were doing at the time of the crash.

This crash appears to have occured in the 'c:\windows\system32\nvwgf2um.dll' module.

**** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: c0000005
Fault address: 5DABDFEB (c:\windows\system32\nvwgf2um.dll)
OBS version: Open Broadcaster Software v0.625b
Windows version: 6.2 (Build 9200)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz

Crashing thread stack trace:
Stack EIP Arg0 Arg1 Arg2 Arg3 Address
0C00E690 5DABDFEB 057463C0 005E08C0 057463C0 03DC3430 nvwgf2um.dll!0x5dabdfeb
0C00E6BC 5DB0C382 005E08C0 00000000 5F0FF40C 0C00E908 nvwgf2um.dll!0x5db0c382
0C00E6DC 5DCB2DB4 005E08C0 03D5AD1C 00000000 5F0FF40C nvwgf2um.dll!0x5dcb2db4
0C00E770 5DC9F211 005E08C0 0C00E908 03D5AD1C 5F0FF40C nvwgf2um.dll!0x5dc9f211
0C00E794 6DE7A0C0 0C00E908 03D5AD1C 5F0FF40C 0C00E7D8 nvumdshim.dll!0x6de7a0c0
0C00E7AC 6DE76F37 005DFE68 0C00E908 03D5AD1C 5F0FF40C nvumdshim.dll!0x6de76f37
0C00E7C0 6DE832B2 0C00E908 03D5AD1C 5F0FF40C 0C00E950 nvumdshim.dll!0x6de832b2
0C00E7E0 6DE6E347 005DCC50 0C00E908 03D5AD1C 5F0FF40C nvumdshim.dll!0x6de6e347
0C00E7F4 5F0FF61C 00000000 0C00EE08 0C00F164 5F0FF232 d3d11.dll!0x5f0ff61c
0C00E958 5F0FF492 03D5ACFC 00000000 0C00EE08 7E9FBD04 d3d11.dll!0x5f0ff492
0C00E968 5F0FF232 00000004 0C00F204 03D5AC9C 03D5AC78 d3d11.dll!0x5f0ff232
0C00F16C 5F0FA4FD 005D5744 00000004 0C00F204 0000001C d3d11.dll!0x5f0fa4fd
0C00F18C 5F0FBE6E 00000004 0C00F204 0000001C 03D5AC78 d3d11.dll!0x5f0fbe6e
0C00F1C8 5F0FBD9D 00000004 03D5AC98 0000001C 03D5AC98 d3d11.dll!0x5f0fbd9d
0C00F278 5F0FA15C 005D5410 00000004 0C00F3C0 0000001C d3d11.dll!0x5f0fa15c
0C00F394 5F0FF85B 05883448 0000F464 0C00F448 00000001 d3d11.dll!0x5f0ff85b
0C00F428 5F100E0C 00000000 058834B8 0C00F464 0C00F47C d3d11.dll!0x5f100e0c
0C00F448 01042A9F C0002A82 0C00F4F4 5F084A29 00000500 obs.exe!D3D10Texture::CreateFromSharedHandle+0x12f
0C00F4C0 01040D91 00000500 000002D0 C0002A82 5F4C4BE0 obs.exe!D3D10System::CreateTextureFromSharedHandle+0x11
0C00F4CC 5F084A29 0C00F518 00BB1400 74F772D8 5F4C8080 graphicscapture.dll!SharedTexCapture::Init+0x109
0C00F4FC 5F082FC2 00BC8600 00000001 00000000 00000000 graphicscapture.dll!GraphicsCaptureSource::NewCapture+0x2e2
0C00F548 5F083CA3 3D088888 00BB0000 00000000 0C00F850 graphicscapture.dll!GraphicsCaptureSource::Tick+0x123
0C00F568 5F4B5490 3D088888 00000000 00000000 56E5EC1B obsapi.dll!Scene::Tick+0x30
0C00F57C 01066BAA 74F6919F 00000000 0C00F8A4 774DA8CB obs.exe!OBS::MainCaptureLoop+0xa2a
0C00F858 01064E55 00000000 0C00F8A4 774DA8CB 00000000 obs.exe!OBS::MainCaptureThread+0x5
0C00F85C 74F6919F 00000000 56E5E16F 00000000 00000000 kernel32.dll!0x74f6919f
0C00F868 774DA8CB FFFFFFFF 774CF68A 00000000 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x774da8cb
0C00F8AC 774DA8A1 01064E50 00000000 00000000 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x774da8a1

A minidump was saved to C:\Users\Christina\AppData\Roaming\OBS\crashDumps\OBSCrashDump2014-08-13_2.dmp.
Please include this file when posting a crash report.

List of loaded modules:
Base Address Module