Question / Help Lagging stream, trying to find settings.

[Quanee]

Hello there,

Game I tried streaming is WoW.

I decided to stream for the first time recently and it's been giving me a lot of troubles to set it up. Few friends of mine managed to help me out with certain stuff, although, I still have some issues related to lagging (on stream).

My FPS in game is totally fine, I have no issues playing, stream on the other hand is laggy (I think it's quality issue).

I'm completely clueless when it comes to settings things up, I already tried running suggested settings from OBS, but the quality was terrible.

I ran upload speed test on testmy.net with 6 mb of data, and it came up with 1.1mb/s, which is quite saddenning since my local upload is something around 14,5mb/s.

There's another issue related to my screen, apparently it's something with resolution (I'm at 16:10 instead of 16:9) and I couldn't really find 720p settings or whatnot by reading other threads.

At this moment I'm running at 2000 bitrate with 1.50 downscale and it's not giving me issues, but my stream is unwatchable with such quality. Screen is really blurry and it's barely possible to even read a chat in game.

My question is, would it be possible to stream with higher quality on my current PC/Connection?

Log:

02:16:38: Open Broadcaster Software v0.592b - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
02:16:38: -------------------------------
02:16:38: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
02:16:38: CPU Speed: 3192MHz
02:16:38: Physical Memory:  4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
02:16:38: stepping id: 9, model 58, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 4, total cores 4
02:16:38: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1680, 1050}
02:16:38: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
02:16:38: Aero is Enabled
02:16:38: -------------------------------
02:16:38: OBS Modules:
02:16:38: Base Address     Module
02:16:38: 013D0000         OBS.exe
02:16:38: 6CC30000         OBSApi.dll
02:16:38: 735F0000         DShowPlugin.dll
02:16:38: 71C10000         GraphicsCapture.dll
02:16:38: 71930000         NoiseGate.dll
02:16:38: 70AF0000         PSVPlugin.dll
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Adapter 1
02:16:38:   Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
02:16:38:   Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 1024917504
02:16:38:   Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 3221106688
02:16:38:   Video Adapter Output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1680, 1050}, attached=true
02:16:38: =====Stream Start: 2014-01-03, 02:16:38===============================================
02:16:38:   Multithreaded optimizations: On
02:16:38:   Base resolution: 1680x1050
02:16:38:   Output resolution: 1120x700
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE (Adapter 1)...
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Audio Format: 48000hz
02:16:38: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{82259dc9-d4bb-4624-8898-4ae1b71b0948}
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Using desktop audio input: Głośniki (Realtek High Definition Audio)
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Using auxilary audio input: Mikrofon (2 — Urządzenie audio USB)
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Audio Encoding: AAC
02:16:38:     bitrate: 128
02:16:38: Using graphics capture
02:16:38: Using graphics capture
02:16:38: Scene buffering time set to 700
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: Video Encoding: x264
02:16:38:     fps: 30
02:16:38:     width: 1120, height: 700
02:16:38:     preset: veryfast
02:16:38:     profile: main
02:16:38:     keyint: 60
02:16:38:     CBR: yes
02:16:38:     CFR: yes
02:16:38:     max bitrate: 2000
02:16:38:     buffer size: 2000
02:16:38: ------------------------------------------
02:16:38: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Głośniki (Realtek High Definition Audio)' is 384000, samples per sec is 48000
02:16:38: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Mikrofon (2 — Urządzenie audio USB)' is 176400, samples per sec is 44100
02:16:38: SharedTexCapture hooked
02:16:40: Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
02:16:40:   Server selection: rtmp://live.justin.tv/app
02:16:40:   Interface: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) (ethernet, 1000 mbps)
02:16:40: Completed handshake with rtmp://live.justin.tv/app in 435 ms.
02:16:42: SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
02:16:42: SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
02:16:47: RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Stalled for 1798 ms to write 272383 bytes (buffer: 0 / 272384), unstable connection?
02:23:23: Total frames encoded: 12143, total frames duplicated: 56 (0.46%)
02:23:23: Total frames rendered: 12147, number of late frames: 1 (0.01%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
02:23:24: RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Graceful loop exit
02:23:24: Average send payload: 8745 bytes, average send interval: 34 ms
02:23:24: Number of times waited to send: 4, Waited for a total of 16402 bytes
02:23:24: Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
02:23:24: Number of bytes sent: 100546787
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: Profiler time results:
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: ==============================================================
02:23:24: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.464 ms] [children: 34.8%] [unaccounted: 65.2%]
02:23:24: | scene->Preprocess - [0.137%] [avg time: 0.002 ms]
02:23:24: | GPU download and conversion - [34.7%] [avg time: 0.508 ms] [children: 27%] [unaccounted: 7.65%]
02:23:24: | | flush - [18.6%] [avg time: 0.273 ms]
02:23:24: | | CopyResource - [8.13%] [avg time: 0.119 ms]
02:23:24: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.273%] [avg time: 0.004 ms]
02:23:24: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 0.72 ms] [children: 98.1%] [unaccounted: 1.94%]
02:23:24: | Convert444toNV12 - [98.1%] [avg time: 0.706 ms]
02:23:24: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.559 ms]
02:23:24: ==============================================================
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: Profiler CPU results:
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: ==============================================================
02:23:24: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.323 ms, total 3931.23 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: | GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.041 ms, total 499.203 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: | | flush - [cpu time: avg 0.015 ms, total 187.202 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: | | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0.009 ms, total 109.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0.002 ms, total 31.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.705 ms, total 17097.7 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
02:23:24: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.702 ms, total 17035.3 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
02:23:24: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.963 ms, total 11684.5 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
02:23:24: ==============================================================
02:23:24: 
02:23:24: =====Stream End: 2014-01-03, 02:23:24=================================================

 

[Krazy]

2000 bitrate is pretty low for 720p30fps in a game like WoW, unfortunately. If you can't raise bitrate, there isn't going to be a whole lot you can do, I'm afraid.

 

[Quanee]

I streamed for a bit with 3000 bitrate without bigger issues, had an avarage of 0.90% frame drops which was barely noticable, I guess 2700~ would sort it out. Sadly, resolution won't let me go higher than below 720 so I guess I'm stuck as you mentioned. May I just ask, what exactly would be an issue here? I would love to sort it out in close future.