Question / Help LOW FPS in game while streaming

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IvyCat

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Hello!

I'm having this issue since 1 month ago I believe, and I thought it could be my old graphic card but now I change it and I still get the same problem: when I'm on League of Legends while streaming, all the fps drops to 40-50 but when i'm not live, I can play with all the settings at Very High with more than 150 fps.


This is the computer I have:

Motherboard ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0

AMD FX-8320 Black Edition

HyperX Fury 8GB 1866 MHz

AMD Radeon™ R7 260X 2GB GDDR5

HDD 2TB WD Purple


My internet speed is 15 mbs download and 2mb upload. I have the recommended setting for Twitch.tv with a bitrate of 1000 kb/s and the resolution at 1366x768. I have either window and game capture. I had this issue with my old graphic card that used to be a GeForce 9800 GT and now I'm still having it with my new one.


EDIT:

HERE'S THE LOG: http://pastebin.com/RSsxmZwE


Best regards!
 
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IvyCat

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Hi, Sapiens!

Yes, I know, I'll be uploading the log as soon as I can, I thought that in the meantime I could get any advice :-)

Thank you :-)
 
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IvyCat

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Btw, have you ever heard about that program I mentioned before? The one that allows you to exclude services in order to not be shown while you stream with monitor capture?
 
D2ultima

D2ultima

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Ok. Borderlands... I don't know. You should have enough CPU power on your other cores for it, as you have 8. But it looks like you're running out of CPU power a bit.

League of Legends... do me a favour and force OBS to the last 6 cores in task manager.
It should look something like this:
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See if that fixes it for League of Legends. As far as I know, LoL is a low-power DX9 game, but it might want its cores untouched to get the FPS you need. I know other streamers who have HUGE FPS drops in LoL when using AMD CPUs to stream.

Next, what is your CPU speed at? Is it stock? If you are comfortable with it, you should look into overclocking it. Try to get somewhere between 4.4 and 4.8GHz on the CPU. It's a drastic measure, but AMD CPUs are extremely weak today, and to have them perform optimally when single-threaded performance is necessary (like in DX9 games and streaming) they require a boost in clockspeed.

Let me know if the first method works, and if you try the second, let me know if that works too.
 
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IvyCat

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Thank you very much for your reply! I didn't know that of forcing OBS to use the others cores, i'll try it right now, I didn't unlock the 8 cores for nothing :P (they were parked when I bought the pc).

Yes, I've seen that all the streamers use Intel instead of AMD and those who use it, have problems with it :/

So, I did what you told me with the Cores and OBS in Task Manager and I did a test on Twitch.tv creating a custom and adding bots and all seems to work fine, on lane I get 75-80 fps and when it's more action, 60-65 fps. I didn't tried with a teamfight for example but I think that it'll work fine. l also changed the resolution on the OBS video settings to 1.50 (910x512) and Lanczos. It's not the best quality while live but I saw it and it doesn't hurt your eyes, you can watch it and it seems to work fine combined with the OBS change at core usage.

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Also I tried with closing and opening OBS again and I found out that it went again to the default settings, is there a way to set it up to always use from core 2 to 7 without doing it manually?

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And for the CPU speed, it says 3.50 GHz on System Properties.
 
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IvyCat

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Also, can it be that the web cam is using to much resources? I saw this footage that I recorded with my old GeForce 9800GT, without the web cam on it, and look at the quality and fps in game, it's flawless (at least for me): http://www.twitch.tv/ivy_cat/c/6221143
And here I didn't try with changing the resolution or anything, I just clicked on the "Optimize" option that OBS gives you to use with Twitch and then clicked on the "Start Streaming" button and ouala!

It's quite odd because I started with this fps problem from a day to another, I thought that it was the graphic card on it's lasts days but it's seems to not be that :(
 
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D2ultima

D2ultima

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There is no way that I know of to automatically set its affinity. But glad that it worked for you. Webcam can eat a little processing power to use, I believe, but not much.
 
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