Question / Help Internet ping dramatically increases while recording?

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Here is my Log:

https://gist.github.com/051141fead28f3b54196

I have all the settings turned ALL THE WAY DOWN to ensure I wasnt going crazy.... And even then, my game never lagged when recording, only my connection?

 

[Pfctink]

Maybe you won't be able to stream? Maybe your ISP isn't providing you with enough speeds to be able to stream?

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

My download speed is over 20 mbs and my upload is over 11 mbs though?

 

[Osiris]

When recording your network obviously isn't used, so the recording can't have anything to do with that.

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

When recording your network obviously isn't used, so the recording can't have anything to do with that.

Which i why I am confused and posted here about it. Because I will get amazing pings before I start recording and 300fps on my custom pc. But as soon as I record, my connection lags out to the point where I can not even connect to any servers on my game, and I KNOW I am not streaming. So I do not understand what is happening?

 

[Harold]

What chipset does your network adapter run on?

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

What chipset does your network adapter run on?

How could I tell that?

 

[Harold]

Device manager usually.

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

It is a D-Link DWA-556 XTreame N PCIe Desktop Adapter?

 

[Harold]

Are you able to try with a wired connection instead of wireless?

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

Are you able to try with a wired connection instead of wireless?

At the moment no :/ I live downstairs while my router is upstairs. I get an amazing connection to my high speed router, and an amazing internet speed. But That should not be the issue at all since obs shouldn't be touching my internet if I have it set up for recording?

 

[Harold]

Your wireless adapter may be heavily cpu-supplemented and streaming is extremely cpu intensive.

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

Your wireless adapter may be heavily cpu-supplemented and streaming is extremely cpu intensive.

Im recording though, not streaming?

 

[Osiris]

It's the same for recording.

 

[BURNED_ICEEE]

Ok, thank you so much for your help. This helped me understand the way OBS works and to realize that it does use internet xD So thank you :D

 

[Harold]

It's not that it uses internet while recording.

It's that your network adapter uses more main processor than it really needs to and struggles to get that cpu when OBS is recording.

 

[VooDoo]

Ok, thank you so much for your help. This helped me understand the way OBS works and to realize that it does use internet xD So thank you :D

No he is saying OBS uses CPU resources, and if the network adapter you have relies heavily on CPU as well then your net would be effected. In essence recording and streaming both drain your cpu as they doing the same thing, the major difference is 1 is outputting to a harddrive and one is outputting to an rtmp url. This causes different scenarios, for instance. (Example 1, when streaming you must not only conform to your cpu's capability, but to your bandwidths capability, which is much lower than your cpu's capability so your bitrate has to be much lower for effective viewing.) (Example 2, when recording you must conform to cpu and hdd/ssd capability, which is in fact more inline with each other and allows for near to lossless recording.)

Obs will use the net to check for an update, and when you are streaming. It doesn't just sit there and glutton the bandwidth needlessly. However you'd need to understand the amount of strain streaming puts on a cpu.

 

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Hey, I am having the same issues again, and I read through this thread about your solutions and such, however, when you are saying it is intensive on my cpu, it still does not make any sense. My CPU is not even at half useage when I am recording AND it happens on fraps too? And i tried it with two different adapters.