Question / Help Lagging quite a bit when streaming Overwatch (ingame)

[konr]

I'm more or less looking for advice on settings to have a stream that looks good and VERY rarely drops (if at all) under 120 fps ingame.

Processor - i5 6600 3.3GHz
Video Card - nVidia GTX 970
RAM - Corsair 8GB DDR4

Any advice is very much appreciated. I have a 200mbps down and 20mbps up connection fyi and run at 2500 bitrate.

 

[RytoEX]

I'm not sure what you're asking is possible. Overwatch is pretty CPU intensive, and encoding is also CPU intensive - live encoding even more so.

What kind of in-game FPS do you get right now? Have you already streamed while playing? If so, what OBS Studio settings did you use, and how did it affect your in-game FPS?

 

[konr]

I get upwards of around 220-250 average when not streaming, sometimes more than that. My ingame FPS takes quite a hit when streaming, to the point of it dipping to 90-100 quite a bit on my normal good settings. What I'm looking for is some advice on settings that may help but not ruin stream quality so much.

 

[vapeahoy]

From the specs you list, gpu encoding, nvidia is great at it.

 

[konr]

How do I make it use my GPU to encode? Do I try NVENC?

 

[vapeahoy]

yeah nvidia encoder. just push some buttons there and see what happens.

 

[konr]

Will try and report back.

 

[vapeahoy]

Because of your upload speed, you can set your bitrate to 3500, should be good. good luck

 

[konr]

I've tried enabling it and I don't seem to get much of a performance boost ingame. It could potentially be the other settings. Here's my log from my testing:
https://gist.github.com/47c49621949e76f1d07faccfaa9e654d

 

[vapeahoy]

Take a look here, seems similar issue https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/nvidia-nvenc-problem.14832/

You have a superior gfx card from nvidia tho, should be better. I can't really comment on that tho as i havent had any nvidia horse maneoure here for so many years now. Definitively make sure you have your right values for keyframes checked. If u can't make sense of it, please post some screenshots of your settings.

 

[RytoEX]

I've tried enabling it and I don't seem to get much of a performance boost ingame. It could potentially be the other settings. Here's my log from my testing:
https://gist.github.com/47c49621949e76f1d07faccfaa9e654d

How much of a difference did it make? Please provide actual numbers from the in-game FPS counter.

Your log shows some issues.

13:32:30.937: LoadLibrary failed for '../../obs-plugins/64bit/CLRHostPlugin.dll', error: 126
13:32:30.937: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/CLRHostPlugin.dll' not found

The CLR Browser Source plugin is for OBS Classic only. Please remove it from your OBS Studio folders and use the OBS Studio Browser Source instead.

13:32:30.940: LoadLibrary failed for '../../obs-plugins/64bit/d3dcompiler_43.dll', error: 193
13:32:30.940: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/d3dcompiler_43.dll' not found

I'm not sure what this error is about. Maybe related to having CLR Browser Source plugin installed? See above, and uninstall that first.

14:37:27.153: Output 'adv_stream': Total encoded frames: 0

Did this last stream actually show anything?

Try testing Overwatch in a new Scene Collection with only your Overwatch related scene(s) in it.