hello OBS community, i need some assistance in trying to isolate problems in my last stream(s). I posted a log below of my last stream and i noticed in the video on twitch it was a bit choppy so i went in my log and found
14:27:12.258: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 766/11103 (6.9%)
when im playing and streaming my cpu avgs 60-70 so how could i be having encoding lag? i also cap in game frame rate to monitors refresh if that means anything at all, thanks for the help in advance.
EDIT: ive done another stream with the same weird issue, CPU encoding overall cpu usage avging 60-70% but on stream sometimes it displays "true" 60 fps and sometimes its like a "choppy" version of 60 fps if that makes any sense, ive updated the log to most recent stream with video below, thanks in advance for any assistance on my endeavor
example here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/310066725, to show exactly what i mean it happens at 11:42 where it gets awkwardly choppy, and then at around 12:05 it smooths out and starts displaying real 60 fps. hope someone can understand where im coming from and how this is problematic, that time stamp was just one example but it happened all throughout the stream. during the whole 45 minutes that i streamed the cpu usage didnt top 80% once, nor did my game lag or anything. its just OBS for some reason. Also no skipped frames when i was viewing it via twitch, and 16:02:42.190: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 133 (0.1%) shows that my network was up to speed during stream (relatively with 133 frames lagged it shouldn't be making that big of an impact visual wise and on the contrary, its completely visible and kinda ugly). ALSO, i know my GPU isn't the issue here cause it barely goes passed 35% usage and i dont encode with it (obs)
14:27:12.258: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 766/11103 (6.9%)
when im playing and streaming my cpu avgs 60-70 so how could i be having encoding lag? i also cap in game frame rate to monitors refresh if that means anything at all, thanks for the help in advance.
EDIT: ive done another stream with the same weird issue, CPU encoding overall cpu usage avging 60-70% but on stream sometimes it displays "true" 60 fps and sometimes its like a "choppy" version of 60 fps if that makes any sense, ive updated the log to most recent stream with video below, thanks in advance for any assistance on my endeavor
example here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/310066725, to show exactly what i mean it happens at 11:42 where it gets awkwardly choppy, and then at around 12:05 it smooths out and starts displaying real 60 fps. hope someone can understand where im coming from and how this is problematic, that time stamp was just one example but it happened all throughout the stream. during the whole 45 minutes that i streamed the cpu usage didnt top 80% once, nor did my game lag or anything. its just OBS for some reason. Also no skipped frames when i was viewing it via twitch, and 16:02:42.190: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 133 (0.1%) shows that my network was up to speed during stream (relatively with 133 frames lagged it shouldn't be making that big of an impact visual wise and on the contrary, its completely visible and kinda ugly). ALSO, i know my GPU isn't the issue here cause it barely goes passed 35% usage and i dont encode with it (obs)
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