Question / Help Low Framerate on OBS, game running smoothly

[VenomSWR]

Hey guys,

So, first of all, I think I need to make this clear, this is not a problem caused by the Windows 10 Anniversary update or whatever ! This is a problem I had previously, like, a year or so ago, and I just noticed it was THAT BAD !

So, yeah, I play a lot of games on stream, and I have no problems with most of them (Isaac, Gungeon, games like that are fine). But, then, there's the Bethesda games. I play a lot of Bethesda games (Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Doom, you name it), and I'm used to stream them, and I had a lot of people on my chat saying my framerate was bad. I used to think that was because my Internet is bad (like, very very bad), but the newest OBS version came in, and I downloaded it... And realized my Internet had nothing to do with it.

Fact is that, when I play Oblivion (for example, other Bethesda games have this issue, and some other random games like Unravel or things like that), the game is running 60-70FPS on my PC, but the OBS pickup is between 15 and 22FPS... Without the stream or recording on. Just the game and OBS. I tried to use NVENC, it didn't change anything, and I tried to lower my resolution from 1080P to 720P, but it didn't change anything either. So I'm kind of out of solutions here. If you have an idea, anything, I'd like your take on it, if there's anything that can make my OBS run better of whatever...


My specs are as follows :

Windows 10 Pro 64 bits
Intel i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10 GHz
6GB RAM
nVidia GT730


Thanks for any tip or advice, even if I sound like a noob or anything :)

 

[sheetzy]

i have the exact same issue, with overwatch, i tried here, linustechtips, and reddit to see if anyone knows whats up and no one knows. however i got a idea on what it might be based on our spects, we both have win10, you have a 730, i have a 980 so its not likely to be the graphics card, i have 12 gb of ram so its unlikely that, but we both have a i5. mine being a 6600K so that might be the issue im not sure.

EDIT: ok a little more insight. i made it so OBS was not capturing overwatch so all i was seeing was a black screen, i am tabbed in to obs, i get 60 fps, i tab over to overwatch it drops to 45. i feel like this shows that it really is the cpu just not able to keep up. i think it might have to do with corecount idk im not a expert.

EDIT.V2: turning on v-sync helps a lot, still some frame drops but it really helps

 

[VenomSWR]

V-Sync is turned on in those games, but the problem's not with the games, it's with OBS itself. My PC's decent enough to clearly run Oblivion or Skyrim in High or even Ultra, and with that I can't stream it properly when the game's on 720P Medium. I guess there's a problem somewhere, but I have no idea where, and it kinda pisses me off