Issues Streaming/Recording RE4 Remake

[marvelousdrew]

I'm trying to stream Resident Evil 4 Remake and am having issues with the game lagging and video freezing at points. I was able to stream the game back in March when it released by having GeForce Experience set to Performance settings. Those settings have not changed and yet when I try to play the game now, it can't run smoothly for more than 10 seconds it seems. I've checked the log file, which I'll include here and there are no critical issues. Also, I don't understand the Capture Interference Warning. The only sources I have available in my scene are mic input, game audio capture, game capture and webcam capture.

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/CrxGPDsOCuOWnLRM

Twitch inspector also is not giving me any issues.

I've tried restarting the PC. Running OBS Studio and Steam both in administrator mode. My OBS settings are:

Audio Encoder: FFmpeg AAC

Video Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC H.264

Rate Control: CBR

Bitrate: 6000 Kbps

Keyframe Interval: 2s

Preset: P5: Slow (Good Quality)

Tuning: High Quality

Multipass Mode: Two Passes (Quarter Resolution)

Profile: High

Look ahead: Checked

Pyscho Visual Tuning: Checked

GPU: 0

Max B-frames: 4

My PC Specs are: Ryzen 5 5600x, 3090 and 32gb ram

 

[qhobbes]

Display and Game Capture Sources interfere with each other. Never put them in the same scene (Vertical Gameplay). Avoid Display/Monitor Capture unless you need to record Windows stuff such as Start menu and desktop.

 

[marvelousdrew]

Display and Game Capture Sources interfere with each other. Never put them in the same scene (Vertical Gameplay). Avoid Display/Monitor Capture unless you need to record Windows stuff such as Start menu and desktop.

I don't have a display capture source active in the scene. Why is it giving me this error? Does my Elgato Facecam count as a display source? If so how can I have both it and game capture active?

 

[PaiSand]

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

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At least 2 of the plugins are known to cause issues on OBS. And I said this one too many times. Completely remove streamelements plugin. To do this, please use their uninstaller, then manually delete the leftover files they keep on %appdata%\obs-studio\ and to finish it simple uninstall OBS and reinstall it.
Of course, first backup the scene collections and profiles you have, just in case anything goes bad.
As you have to unisntall and install again OBS, the other plugins are affected, so you may want to uninstall/remove them too. Please do delete any leftover files they left in the same folder mentioned before.

Now, lets make OBS work great before adding anything else.
If the Auto-configuration Wizar didn't start automaticaly when installing, please do run it from the Tools menu.
Apply the settings it gives and do NOT change anything. Restart OBS. Test as is. Do not change anything.
Now look inside Help menu. Upload the current log file and paste the url to the log in here. Click on the Analize button to start troubleshooting common issues if any is present.

Audio filters. There's a way to use them. First goes noise supression/gate, then you can use a compressor followed by EQ and/or gain. So, you end with 3 or 4 filters at most. You may want to look for more in depth information about this online.

In the scene 'PC' you have a display capture and a game capture which interfere with each other. Display capture must be always on it's own scene.

Most alert services gives you the option to set all the alert types in one single browser source. This saves a lot of resources that can be used for other process in the computer. Less is better.
If you're streaming to Twitch you can use their own alert system. It works great.

 

[marvelousdrew]

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

At least 2 of the plugins are known to cause issues on OBS. And I said this one too many times. Completely remove streamelements plugin. To do this, please use their uninstaller, then manually delete the leftover files they keep on %appdata%\obs-studio\ and to finish it simple uninstall OBS and reinstall it.
Of course, first backup the scene collections and profiles you have, just in case anything goes bad.
As you have to unisntall and install again OBS, the other plugins are affected, so you may want to uninstall/remove them too. Please do delete any leftover files they left in the same folder mentioned before.

Now, lets make OBS work great before adding anything else.
If the Auto-configuration Wizar didn't start automaticaly when installing, please do run it from the Tools menu.
Apply the settings it gives and do NOT change anything. Restart OBS. Test as is. Do not change anything.
Now look inside Help menu. Upload the current log file and paste the url to the log in here. Click on the Analize button to start troubleshooting common issues if any is present.

Audio filters. There's a way to use them. First goes noise supression/gate, then you can use a compressor followed by EQ and/or gain. So, you end with 3 or 4 filters at most. You may want to look for more in depth information about this online.

In the scene 'PC' you have a display capture and a game capture which interfere with each other. Display capture must be always on it's own scene.

Most alert services gives you the option to set all the alert types in one single browser source. This saves a lot of resources that can be used for other process in the computer. Less is better.
If you're streaming to Twitch you can use their own alert system. It works great.

Thank you very much. After uninstalling the streamelements plugin as well as uninstalling and reinstalling OBS I ran a test stream and everything worked great.

 

[marvelousdrew]

Well I guess I spoke too soon. When I ran the test stream I had Enable Bandwith Test Mode checked. Everything worked fine. I stopped the test stream and then unchecked Enable Bandwith Test Mode. I went live and as soon as I started to play the game, it began to freeze up during a cutscene.

Here is the log: https://obsproject.com/logs/CyWNqW6kllNQ8hlw

 

[PaiSand]

The only thing I can think of affecting the game itself is Norton.
But it could be the network driver affecting the stream. Make sure is updated (look in the MoBos support page site)
Once updated you can use this tool to optimize or set to default the network connection: R1TCPOptimizer
Also, you may want to use the Twitch test to actualy test the quality of your internet connection against Twitch servers:

TwitchTest | r1ch.net

Test your upload bandwidth and connection quality to Twitch

r1ch.net

Anything bellow 90 quality is bad and probaly an issue on the ISP, or your local network.