Question / Help How to reduce lag in general

[Jkingstan]

I removed background apps
Fire wall/windows 10 defender
I put obs as above normal priority and put my game as high
Also only have one scene (sub alert and my game capture)
I lower my ingame settings and on OBS im streaming at 30fps however i still lag

 

[Narcogen]

Not possible to answer without knowing what you mean by "lag".

Best way to determine would be a logfile from a complete output session that includes the lag you are observing.

 

[Jkingstan]

What i mean by lag is graphical lag

 

[Narcogen]

That's not helpful.

Encoding lag? Rendering lag? Network lag?

 

[Jkingstan]

hmmm encoding lag and rendering lag

 

[Narcogen]

Rendering lag means GPU overload.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues

Encoding lag means CPU overload if you're using x264.

General Performance and Encoding Issues

If you're using NVENC, it either means you've turned on an expensive option you shouldn't (psycho-visual tuning, lookahead) or overriden some other default, or just pushing a frame size/frame rate the encoder can't handle.

 

[Jkingstan]

ok rendering lag i tried everything i could but still get lag spikes in game

 

[Narcogen]

If particularly demanding scenes cause spikes in rendering lag, the workaround is to reduce game GPU usage so those spikes never go high enough to cause frame drops, or to switch to lower frame size or frame rate to reduce overrall load to the point that no spike in activity causes frames to drop.