Question / Help Micro-Stuttering when using Fullscreen Preview on Stream PC

ManniG

New Member
Hello Everyone,

My questions below...

I have tried every online-guide to play smooth with 144 Hz and Fps on the Gaming PC / Monitor while capturing the gameplay over to the Streaming PC and none of them works for me without problems. I desperately need help with this!

My Gaming PC
is i7-8700K at 6x 5GHz @ H²0
RTX 2080 TI
64 GB HighSpeed Ram

Streaming Laptop
i7-6700 HQ
GTX 1070
16 GB Ram
Razor Ripsaw Capture Card

The problem is defintiely not the Streaming Laptop. I has absolutely no problems hosting the streams in good quality and saving it locally at the same time, etc. The problem lies in how the game is running for me on my main monitor and PC when I use solution #2...

I tried both Online-Guides:

Solution Nr #1: DOES NOT WORK AT ALL
https://medium.com/@LtRoyalShrimp_3...ato-gaming-capture-card-method-1-f432da4a1e8d
This one is completely out of the question as the Gaming Monitor shows the 144Hz enabled in windows but in the game and even in windows I can immediately see that its running at 60 Hz. The capture card via USB 3.0 has a native resolution of 720p / 60 but can 1080p / 60. But unless I have a capture card that can run 1440p / 144 Hz natively the "Cloning Solution #1" is not working.

Solution Nr #2:
https://rzr-insider-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2016/04/240632_d98acb6d3438943671ad8517d3174f08.jpg
Works better but I have Micro Stutters when playing on the Main Gaming Monitor probably caused by the FullScreen Preview running in the background.
It runs with 144 Hz at 1440p but very often I experience slight frame-drops and stutters that mess up my smooth aiming in fast FPS games.

I tried OBS Studio and OBS Classic (with the option "disable encoding while previewing". But it seems that this preview causes enough strain on the Gaming PC that it suffers some slight frame drops often enough to be a problem for me. How can I make the strain on the PC as low as possible? What settings can you recommend to have the least performance impact? Is it maybe useful to fool around with the process-prioty in windows task manager? Or are there any Nvidia options like "FAST SYNC" or so that will help? Any settings in OBS that will make the game run smooth and still run the preview in the background well.

Greetings and THANKS for your time!
 

ManniG

New Member
Please, everyone,

if you have an idea on how to reduce the strain on the Gaming PC for handling the preview in the background with Solution #2. Please help. Its so frustrating that I cant find a way that works perfectly fine.
 

ManniG

New Member
I noticed yesterday that my problem has something to do with the communication between gaming PC and Monitor when the Preview is running on the Capturecard. When moving windows around in Windows (OS) I can see that the Refresh Rate of the Monitor is high and almost as good as if I am not activating the Fullscreen Preview. But then it somehow randomly switches and while moving the windows it suddenly feels like 60 Hz where moving them has a crazy drag and it makes all text un-readable while the window is moving. And then it switched back to great refresh rate. Its completely random. Why? Whats causing this? That is my real problem. That the refresh rate seems to vary and not be stable at 144 Hz with Solution #2. It has nothing to do with performance it seems since I did not have any programs or games running. Just testing the refresh rate while moving windows around.
 
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