Question / Help Microstutter during watchback; No dropped frames/stutter during stream

Defiasen

Defiasen

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Was streaming with 720@48 w/ Medium preset for casting.

http://www.hitbox.tv/video/209364 - You can see the "microstutter(s) at the beginning. Hitbox is having issues atm, so you might not be able to see the video. I was using my local hard-drive to rewatch also, and saw stuttering in both Windows Media Player and VLC.

LOG: http://pastebin.com/T5jetg8q

A couple things to note;
OBS reported no dropped frames.
OBS isn't reporting "Taking too long to encode.".
My in-game was fine. Noticed no stuttering whatsoever.
I've streamed at 48 FPS before and never noticed this stuttering during watchback.
I was originally using 30 FPS w/ medium and noticed no stuttering during watchback.
I averaged about 84% CPU usage, and peaked at 91%.
 
Defiasen

Defiasen

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An update: I lowered the preset to Fast to see if I still got microstuttering on playback. There was none, but the quality isn't where I'd like it to be and there is still quite a bit of CPU overhang. To be honest, I'm not really looking for a solution to using Medium but rather a reason as to why it's happening in the first place.

Also, are there any custom x264 settings I can use to try and fill up the CPU overhang I have left to try and increase quality?
 
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vbdkv

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You are getting some duplicated frames though, that's probably what you're seeing. Might wanna turn the preset back to veryfast.
 
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vbdkv

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Intel processors choke a hell of a lot easier than AMD FX when you actually wanna do multitasking (playing and recording for instance). So turn that preset down a notch or overclock it. I don't know why people buy unlocked intel processors for more money and don't overclock them.
 
Defiasen

Defiasen

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vbdkv said:
Intel processors choke a hell of a lot easier than AMD FX when you actually wanna do multitasking (playing and recording for instance). So turn that preset down a notch or overclock it. I don't know why people buy unlocked intel processors for more money and don't overclock them.
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Because I bought a heatsink recommended for beast overclocking but even without overclocking I reach 56c easily with this heatsink.

Also, as I stated earlier. If I were choking wouldn't my in-game be lagging or OBS reporting taking too long to encode? I'm not getting either.

EDIT: Also, it is overclocked. 3.8Ghz Minor though.
 
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vbdkv

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56c? That's a good temp when using intel, especially with their god awful Haswell chips.
But um yeah, try lowering that preset.
 
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