Question / Help High encoding or cpu usage

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Markus Runge

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Hello OBS forum.

i was hoping that some of you might be able to help me with a problem of mine. I have been streaming for a while now, and some days ago my OBS suddenly said in the bottom left corner Warning high encoding or Warning high cpu usage or something like that. I am a little insecure that all my settings are set correctly. I have posted my log file and hope some of you can give any information on what might help with an overall better performance and quality of my stream.

All help are much appreciated

kind regards - Markus Runge :)
 

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It says high encoding and not high cpu usage - sorry if I am a little all around on the question i would just really like some help here
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Markus Runge said:
Hello OBS forum.

i was hoping that some of you might be able to help me with a problem of mine. I have been streaming for a while now, and some days ago my OBS suddenly said in the bottom left corner Warning high encoding or Warning high cpu usage or something like that. I am a little insecure that all my settings are set correctly. I have posted my log file and hope some of you can give any information on what might help with an overall better performance and quality of my stream.

All help are much appreciated

kind regards - Markus Runge :)
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usually something else running in the background that is causing the encoder lag. 720@60 is borderling for your CPU so anything else running could send it over the edge.

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22:57:25: PERFORMANCE WARNING: Scene change took 1818 ms, maybe some sources should be global sources?

does this happen after a scene change? if so, maybe you need to make your webcam a global source. (remove and readd the source as a global one).

aside from that, having a browser up watching your own stream can do this. if you HAVE to watch your own stream, use internet explorer which will have way less CPU usage than chrom or even firefox.
 
Well thank you a lot, for your answer sir ! :)
Well i do not quite know what you mean about the part with 720@60 is borderling for my CPU.... And i do not watch my own stream.... Yesterday when i streamed it said that i might should turn down my settings.. same error. WARNING: High encoding, maybe turn down your settings....

http://www.twitch.tv/ruuunge --- this is my twitch profile, here you can see my past broadcast.... since i am streaming 60 FPS it causes a little bit of lag in the games for me myself when i play. But otherwise it doesnt seem to be in a decent quality. So i would much rather have a little lag and good quality, then no lags but shit quality on the stream.... maybe you can see my old stream/broadcast and see what you think of them... :)
 
Markus Runge said:
Well thank you a lot, for your answer sir ! :)
Well i do not quite know what you mean about the part with 720@60 is borderling for my CPU.... And i do not watch my own stream.... Yesterday when i streamed it said that i might should turn down my settings.. same error. WARNING: High encoding, maybe turn down your settings....

http://www.twitch.tv/ruuunge --- this is my twitch profile, here you can see my past broadcast.... since i am streaming 60 FPS it causes a little bit of lag in the games for me myself when i play. But otherwise it doesn't seem to be in a decent quality. So i would much rather have a little lag and good quality, then no lags but shit quality on the stream.... maybe you can see my old stream/broadcast and see what you think of them... :)
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What I mean is 720@60 is typically reserved for i7s, not an i5. the K series of i5's can do 720@60 but this is all speaking generally; different games have different CPU usage which will change how much CPU is left for the encoder.
 
Okay thank you a lot. i just get the feeling that my stream is running a bit low in graphics when i play csgo with 30 fps. when i play there is no lag - but when i watch the stream it looks like there is a bit of lag... could just be me though :)

but thank you a lot for your response! very helpful
 
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