Question / Help Lag issues in game and on OBS (just recently)

[KissMyGrass]

Hey guys,

I've been streaming for a while and have had no problem doing so. However, recently the last couple of days, I've tried streaming or even pulling up preview stream while playing something makes both obs and the game i'm playing run slower and in less frames. Keep in mind I haven't changed any settings or if anything reduced them and OBS doesn't show any dropped frames or big changes so I'm not sure what to think. I don't know if this is the case but it started pretty much around the time the latest update for obs came out (I didn't think it changed much but I'm using it as a time reference). I decided to check my task manager to see if anything unusual was happening and only saw this. CPU is running pretty low but the memory values for any game and obs seem a little high for some reason. Is this true or are these values normal? If you can help and/ or need any further information, just let me know and I'll be happy to oblige. Thanks.

 

[dping]

Hey guys,

I've been streaming for a while and have had no problem doing so. However, recently the last couple of days, I've tried streaming or even pulling up preview stream while playing something makes both obs and the game i'm playing run slower and in less frames. Keep in mind I haven't changed any settings or if anything reduced them and OBS doesn't show any dropped frames or big changes so I'm not sure what to think. I don't know if this is the case but it started pretty much around the time the latest update for obs came out (I didn't think it changed much but I'm using it as a time reference). I decided to check my task manager to see if anything unusual was happening and only saw this. CPU is running pretty low but the memory values for any game and obs seem a little high for some reason. Is this true or are these values normal? If you can help and/ or need any further information, just let me know and I'll be happy to oblige. Thanks.

Are you using a replay buffer?

 

[KissMyGrass]

Are you using a replay buffer?

Not really sure but I haven't touched it before. I checked and I just have the length at 1 second.

 

[dping]

Not really sure but I haven't touched it before. I checked and I just have the length at 1 second.

I have 24GB so I dont pay much attention. I will check tonight. Monitor the usage from when you start OBS and while streaming. See what happens. Are you having issues or is this just an observation?

 

[KissMyGrass]

I have 24GB so I dont pay much attention. I will check tonight. Monitor the usage from when you start OBS and while streaming. See what happens. Are you having issues or is this just an observation?

I am having visible issues with both my game and obs. Obs does show a couple drops in fps but no dropped frames. Playing any game I usually see no lag or drop in frames and streaming too. When looking at obs without streaming or even previewing it sits around 13,000 K whatever that means. I just don't understand since I just streamed last weekend with no issues and when I tried to even preview and later test stream to twitch I get a drop in fps. I do however notice a slightly better frame rate when obs is minimized but it still doesn't fix the problem since I stream with it on screen as well. I never really monitored the memory it used before but lately it just seems high.

 

[dping]

I am having visible issues with both my game and obs. Obs does show a couple drops in fps but no dropped frames. Playing any game I usually see no lag or drop in frames and streaming too. When looking at obs without streaming or even previewing it sits around 13,000 K whatever that means. I just don't understand since I just streamed last weekend with no issues and when I tried to even preview and later test stream to twitch I get a drop in fps. I do however notice a slightly better frame rate when obs is minimized but it still doesn't fix the problem since I stream with it on screen as well. I never really monitored the memory it used before but lately it just seems high.

Mine went up to about 443MB during a stream preview so I wouldn't say this is abnormal.

 

[KissMyGrass]

Mine went up to about 443MB during a stream preview so I wouldn't say this is abnormal.

What about playing games? Mine like to average around 900,000 to 950,000 K. Is it referring to kilobytes? Like I said, I don't think I really changed anything so would you have any other solutions?

 

[dping]

What about playing games? Mine like to average around 900,000 to 950,000 K. Is it referring to kilobytes? Like I said, I don't think I really changed anything so would you have any other solutions?

post a link to your OBS logfile from the help menu

 

[KissMyGrass]

post a link to your OBS logfile from the help menu

Not sure which one was the one I tried streaming with since I had two that day but here are the last 2.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6861d5f034a5d02b0bae
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f8c09f93b992483b4fa4

*Update* I do have another computer I use sometimes and also stream on that as well. I tested out everything and saw the memory usage was roughly the same for the games I played but OBS was surprisingly taking half of what I have on my main computer that I am having problems with. I had no lag issues or frame drops.

 

[KissMyGrass]

post a link to your OBS logfile from the help menu

Do you have any idea of what's causing the problem? I checked my memory usage and its only at 50% with everything running yet there is still lag and frame loss. I have 8 gbs of ram total and when I have obs closed and everything else running, the memory usage may increase but there's better performance so it has to be a problem with obs

 

[dping]

Do you have any idea of what's causing the problem? I checked my memory usage and its only at 50% with everything running yet there is still lag and frame loss. I have 8 gbs of ram total and when I have obs closed and everything else running, the memory usage may increase but there's better performance so it has to be a problem with obs

Try enable aero (uncheck disable aero in OBS) and make sure you are using a windows aero theme.

If that helps great, if not, lower your elgato to 720@60 and webcam to 720@30. since you are downscaling to 720p anyway, that is USB bandwidth that can cause issues with all sorts of things.

 

[KissMyGrass]

Try enable aero (uncheck disable aero in OBS) and make sure you are using a windows aero theme.

If that helps great, if not, lower your elgato to 720@60 and webcam to 720@30. since you are downscaling to 720p anyway, that is USB bandwidth that can cause issues with all sorts of things.

I had aero on before and tried it after and it still didn't make a difference. Same with the elgato that I recently uninstalled and reinstalled obs and only had PC game capture and there was still lag and frame drop when I played something like csgo.

 

[KissMyGrass]

Try enable aero (uncheck disable aero in OBS) and make sure you are using a windows aero theme.

If that helps great, if not, lower your elgato to 720@60 and webcam to 720@30. since you are downscaling to 720p anyway, that is USB bandwidth that can cause issues with all sorts of things.

So I'm not really sure what I did other than try a clean install but it's working now but the memory usage still hasn't changed at all. Enabled aero again and it seems to help. Thanks for the suggestions and if anything happens I'll keep you posted if you don't mind. Thanks again!