Havent streamed in 2 years but upgraded my hardware - OBS runs worse than before?

[waveTV]

I've tried almost everything I could think of from the general help pages but nothing seems to be working.

I used to stream 2 years ago on some older hardware AMD hardware ( i cant even remember my processor at the time) with my 2070 Super 8GB GPU.
Had multiple sources, filters etc. My stream ran flawlessly. Was able to output at 1080p 60FPS no problem. I was also running a dual monitor setup with identical 1080p 240Hz monitors which I still use today. Gsync disabled etc.

I got new hardware about 5-6 months ago now running AM5 platform with AMD 7800x3d, 32GB DDR 5 and the same Nvidia RTX 2070 Super GPU
I got a new microphone with new microphone software as well but doesnt seem to be a problem, yet i dont know.
I play the same game as 2 years ago and thought maybe I should boot up my stream again for kicks.

Idk whats happened but OBS looks bad while I have it up on my second monitor. Its choppy, stuttery, I get crazy rendering lag while trying to record, not even stream. Tons of missed frames and skipped frames.

I turned off game bar, game DVR, game mode, turned off HAGS, I use Brave Browser and turned off hardware acceleration there, turned off hardware acceleration in discord, run OBS as administrator with high priority in the resource monitor details settings.
GPU drivers are all up to date set for high performance.
I run off of NVEC, all the same settings as before, I changed *NOTHING* in my OBS other than just the periodic updates. I kept my old scenes and filters and everything.
I play my game in windowed fullscreen, and I use display capture since I typically run two instances of the game because I run two accounts simultaneously, and switch back and forth between accounts, display capture is just simply easier for that.

I have absolutely NO clue what can be wrong or what has happened since updating OBS or changing my hardware. But there must be some reason why the game that I've played for 4 years is awful to stream and record, while using hardware that is miles better than I was using two years ago.

I'll post logs from my recordings. I look and see some lines in the logs that I have no idea what it is, and its making me think I should just delete all of my scenes and restart with a fresh profile and fresh scene/source collection.

https://obsproject.com/logs/IRDt3ZDRqxlgNXvB

 

[AaronD]

OBS has some specific requirements that not everything is designed to meet. So, "new hardware" could very well be worse, because of its *design*, not age.

If you still have the old rig, then maybe you could use that to stream, just like you did before, and run a physical video cord from the new gaming rig to a capture card on the old streaming one. Use a *good* capture card, ideally an internal PCIe one, not the $20 USB trash. Second choice would be name-brand USB, for about $100 per input.

It's amazing how many problems just go away, with a 2 PC rig, each optimized for its own job without compromising for the other. It does also introduce a few, but not very many.

 

[PaiSand]

Check your plugins. Remove the ones you don't use. Update the ones you do use or remove it if there's no update to it.
Enable Windows Game Mode because it do help.

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

Run the Auto-configuration Wizard (tools menu) and apply the settings it gives. Do NOT change anything from this settings.
Restart OBS (!important)
Test as is. If all goes well, you're done.
Now you can change the quality presets for recording and test it.

Remember that windows player ins't good enough (almost all videos stutter) and you need VLC player to watch the videos you just recorded.