Question / Help Micro stuttering/input lag with stream despite great specs

Peweje

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I have been having problems with the stream with multiple monitors. Initially I was streaming with only one monitor present and I was using scenes to manage how the stream was being displayed. I was having issues interacting with chat without a second monitor, So I broke out my old 20" monitor and plugged it in. Immediately after plugging in the monitor I noticed that while playing League of Legends I was getting micro stuttering, my FPS dropped to the mid 70s (when it's normally much higher) and all of these problems were mostly happening while streaming.

Occasionally when I tab in and out of the game it will micro stutter and it will never "refocus" onto my game. It refocuses after a little while and then I experience severe input lag. The input lag effects mouse clicks, typing, and everything. My FPS in league of legends will go back up to normal, but the input lag persists, and I'm unsure why.This isn't dependent on tabbing in and out of the game either. Sometimes when I start a game it stays that way.

I consider myself to be quite tech savvy and I have looked up on various forums and done countless google searches to fix the problem. I've tried everything from lowering the refresh rate on my main monitor, all the way down to setting the scaling on my monitors to be GPU controlled instead of Display controlled. I've disabled aero, enabled it, tried game capture, window capture, monitor capture, no matter what the problem persists.

I'm thinking my issue is that I'm plugged into my GPU using two separate cables. The fix might be as easy as acquiring a Dual Link DVI cable.

My specs are as follows:

Asus 144hz 24" monitor (currently sitting at 144hz) 1920 x 1080 connected to the GPU with a Dual Link DVI cable
Acer 60hz 20" monitor 1600 x 900 connected to the GPU with a DVI-D cable

Windows 7
i7 3930k
EVGA Gtx 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (the gpu is not overheating while streaming, it never breaks ~50-60c)
16gb RAM

https://gist.github.com/0b27d37a2aa20f7c3e8d

Once again. I have disabled and reenabled aero as I stated before.Telling me to disable and restart OBS is likely not going to help because I've tried it once, but I will gladly try it again if you truly think that will fix my issue. I think the different refresh rates and resolution might also be causing an issue, but who knows.

I am going to link my stream here too. I'm almost always streaming and maybe you can see what I'm talking about.

http://www.twitch.tv/peweje
 
1. Run CPU-Z, go to the memory tab and make sure your system is in Dual channel mode.
2. Having Monitors run at different refresh rates can cause weird issues. Try having your main monitor run at 60hz to see if that eliminates the micro-stutter/input lag.
 
It's in Quad channel mode because I'm pretty sure my motherboard and processor support Quad channel. Should I try to change it to dual?

Running the main monitor at 60 doesn't help and seems to make the issue worse for some reason. Might be tearing due to high fps though.
 
If it's a Quad channel MB, then run it in Quad-channel mode.
Either way it most likely means it's the different refresh rate for different monitors issue... or your system has trouble keeping up with doing all that you ask of it at the same time.
 
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