Question / Help High Encoding AFTER new update!

[Devin Rodriguez]

I know there is a thread for high encoding however none of those have been an issue EVER. When the new update had came over this past week I started having issues when I stream with frame drops and the WARNING: High Encoding. I have been using OBS since mid Oct. of last year. I have NEVER had an issue till just this past week. I've analyzed the logs and have tried different things to help but to no avail. One thing I have noticed is (I mainly play cs:go lately) when I tab out of the game I don't get the warning anymore and the stream is fine. Once I tab back into the game though I start to drop frames. (I play in windowed fullscreen so the game still shows and plays when I tab out). Is this a bug or error on OBS's part or did something in the new update just make OBS CPU intensive? Like I said I haven't had issues with streaming from obs for just about a year now until the new updates came out.

Note: I checked my CPU usage as well on my task manager, NOT streaming I sit at <15% once I start streaming though my CPU goes above 50% usage...

 

[Devin Rodriguez]

Here is my most recent log file as well btw. https://gist.github.com/4149f684e254b3587b3c

 

[lauralynn]

I noticed the same thing, I went from playing BF4 with decent fps and playability to having to reduce the resolution of my stream for it to be slightly playable 15-20 fps. Not sure if there's any options we should tweak because of this if anyone knows.

 

[Devin Rodriguez]

I noticed the same thing, I went from playing BF4 with decent fps and playability to having to reduce the resolution of my stream for it to be slightly playable 15-20 fps. Not sure if there's any options we should tweak because of this if anyone knows.

As far as actually game play goes I have not had an issue. My game ran perfectly fan but the stream on the other hand always lagged. I actually found a fix for my issue I switched from using x264 to using the NVIDIA NVENC and that fixed my issue. Settings>encoding> NVIDIA NVENC. This fixed everything and I am back to streaming perfectly fine. Might work for you as well?

 

[Lain]

Are you able to download the previous versions and verify? I'd love it if you were able to check (though keep in mind you need to report back the results)