Question / Help Need Help with OBS settings

[SantonGames]

Hi everyone!

I am new to streaming and OBS and I have been trying to get my stream up and running but I have been having some issues. I was able to solve some of them by following the OBS recommendations on this website but it didn't fix everything. I have a lot of dropped frames when I am in game and playing. When streaming and im sitting in the game menus its fine but when I am playing and especially when animation are happening in game the stream lags pretty badly. I am playing Heartstone which is not a game that puts a lot of pressure on the CPU obviously but its still giving me troubles when streaming. Here is my computer specs:

Processor: AMD A8-5500 APU w/ Radeon HD Graphics 3.20 GHz
Installed Memory(RAM): 6.00 GB (5.40 GB usable)
System Type: 64 bit OS

My Internet specs are 50ish down and 5ish up.

Can someone give me a recommendation on how exactly my setting on OBS should look?

Log: https://gist.github.com/SantonGames/11bc315e7ecccd995babeaef75cbcadd

THANKS!

 

[EBrito]

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

 

[SantonGames]

Okay I have updated the main post with the log

 

[EBrito]

Video settings 1600x900 rescaled to 480p bilinear.

Output, do no rescale again
Preset superfast
bitrate 2000

You should get better than this
20:52:57.199: Output 'adv_stream': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4721 (14.7%)

 

[SantonGames]

Video settings 1600x900 rescaled to 480p bilinear.

Output, do no rescale again
Preset superfast
bitrate 2000

You should get better than this
20:52:57.199: Output 'adv_stream': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4721 (14.7%)

Thanks! Can you give me a short explaination on where to go to change that??

 

[EBrito]

Video settings:

Your case:
Bse 1600x900
Output: 852x480
Downscale filter: Bilinear
FPS 25


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Your case:
Rescale output UNCHECKED

Rate Control CBR
Check custom buffer size and set same as bitrate
Keyframe interval 2
Bitrate 1500 should work. Your log says you use 2000
CPU Usage Preset : Superfast (Ultrafast gives less lag but worse image quality)
Profile: main

 

[SantonGames]

EBrito I used those setting and it was a big improvement for sure! But I still had a little bit of frame drops on twitch while testing. Is there anything else I can try to clean it up further? It was definitely watchable this time which was great.

Heres the most recent log:
https://gist.github.com/SantonGames/256d0c343f1f32ee26de3704bdf7d796

 

[EBrito]

Yes, you still have a little lag:
18:34:32.457: Output 'adv_stream': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 305 (2.2%)
18:34:32.457: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 180 (1.3%)

Try moving encoding preset to Ultrafast.
Less lag, worse image.

After you try this, change in Video settings the rescaling filter from bilinear to bicubic. Maybe this can recover quality to "superfast level" without adding lag (video settings rescaling is done by GPU)