Question / Help Heavy scenes drop quality & FPS hard with good hardware

[BK-Morpheus]

If the problem is still rendering lag, then the GPU is still too overloaded for smooth OBS rendering. If I understand correctly, you have a solid 70fps limit in overwatch, so you might reduce details slightly, to keep the GPU load under ~90%.

 

[Sdogga Man]

Yeah, that was sort of what I was just starting to wonder too. It makes good sense - my CPU is fairly happy, but while in-game and playing the GPU pins to 100% for the most part in t/manager.

Dang, Overwatch is so well optimised - and so nice to look at - that I don't want to turn it down! I'd have thought my hardware could handle this better. Oh well - it's not that disasterous a compromise!

Do you have any reccomendations for individual settings I can drop down to help reduce load, rather than a full preset? I was thinking either AA or shadows. RN, it's maxed out.

Thanks!

 

[BK-Morpheus]

Depends on the game, and I'm not familiar with Overwatch. Usually Shadows / SSAO have a realtively huge impact, compared to their optical benefit.
Reducing antialiasing is also worth a try (as long as it's not just FXAA, which has no impact and looks worse than AA off).

 

[Deleted member 121471]

Update your OBS manually, you're running an old version that had performance issues after a certain windows update.

 

[Sdogga Man]

Apologies for not replying guys, I stopped getting notification emails.

I think i've got it fixed, for now at least - and I'll follow both your advice (s?) as well - thanks for the heads up Vol, i'm used to OBS notifying me. Then again, I haven't used it for a while.

I capped my FPS at 65, rather than the 69-70 I see it run at in game, plus dropped AA and shadows down a touch. Might not have needed those, but I will know after some further experimentation. So far, i'm down to 10 on CQP at 1080p60 recorded at 65 FPS with seemingly decent frames, lag, and quality.

Thank you all for your help, I'll report back again soon with more details as that's what I'd want to see in a thread.

Any further advice is and would be, as always, greatly appreciated. Thanks again.