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WristyTheMod

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I need help with settings, I have messed around and I can't find nothing that works because it either lags, doesn't work, or looks like complete crap. I'm trying to stream a high motion game (BioShock Infinite) and it's not working out. On my monitors it looks fine and runs smooth but looks horrible on stream.

Specs:

R7 360
8 GB DDR4
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz
Upload: 4.22 Mbps
I have 2 1080p Monitors if that makes a difference.

I'm currently streaming at a downscale of 1.5 (720p) at 30 fps and it lags. Bit rate 2500 with 2500 buffer size, using CBR. (advanced settings in png)

Can anyone help with the best settings for me to use?
 

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dping

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WristyTheMod said:
I need help with settings, I have messed around and I can't find nothing that works because it either lags, doesn't work, or looks like complete crap. I'm trying to stream a high motion game (BioShock Infinite) and it's not working out. On my monitors it looks fine and runs smooth but looks horrible on stream.

Specs:

R7 360
8 GB DDR4
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz
Upload: 4.22 Mbps
I have 2 1080p Monitors if that makes a difference.

I'm currently streaming at a downscale of 1.5 (720p) at 30 fps and it lags. Bit rate 2500 with 2500 buffer size, using CBR. (advanced settings in png)

Can anyone help with the best settings for me to use?
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don't watch your own stream on your ecoding/gaming PC. your 6 core AMD is doing enough as it is. be very weary about what you have open as well as package temps for that CPU as well. anything peaking over 65C will throttle.


post your logfile
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dping

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WristyTheMod said:
https://gist.github.com/1960d65ec055eff19160
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Thanks for the log. are you monitoring temps while you encode? either your package temps or your VRM temps could be getting high as I said before. your main lag is in the encoder which means something is eating your CPU usage or throttling it.

your settings are fine but I just want to validate that you only have 1 webcam and 1 game capture in your scene. it almost looked like you had 3 webcam capture sources in that first scene in the log.
 
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WristyTheMod

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dping said:
Thanks for the log. are you monitoring temps while you encode? either your package temps or your VRM temps could be getting high as I said before. your main lag is in the encoder which means something is eating your CPU usage or throttling it.

your settings are fine but I just want to validate that you only have 1 webcam and 1 game capture in your scene. it almost looked like you had 3 webcam capture sources in that first scene in the log.
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Sorry for the late reply, but in my only scene I have 3 sources, windows capture (Twitch alert follow alert), web cam, and game capture. I keep open my twitch stream (for chat), the game, obs, and google chrome window (for the twitch alert)

I usually get around 5-10 active chatters (getting in over my head) but for the last few streams no one has even wrote a message and I was wondering why so I viewed my stream (usually I have it paused) and it was lagging bad.
 
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dping

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WristyTheMod said:
Sorry for the late reply, but in my only scene I have 3 sources, windows capture (Twitch alert follow alert), web cam, and game capture. I keep open my twitch stream (for chat), the game, obs, and google chrome window (for the twitch alert)

I usually get around 5-10 active chatters (getting in over my head) but for the last few streams no one has even wrote a message and I was wondering why so I viewed my stream (usually I have it paused) and it was lagging bad.
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switch your browser to internet explorer or edge. both those browsers use considerably lower CPU usage when using twitch. and dont watch your stream even paused. if you wish not to use one of the above browsers then JUST use a popoutchat. not the twitch dashboard.
 
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WristyTheMod

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dping said:
switch your browser to internet explorer or edge. both those browsers use considerably lower CPU usage when using twitch. and dont watch your stream even paused. if you wish not to use one of the above browsers then JUST use a popoutchat. not the twitch dashboard.
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So just use a popout chat with chrome OR switch to edge and use the dashboard?
 
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dping

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I personally wouldn't use dashboard but I can see why you'd want to. yes.
you can always run old internet explorer from the start menu, just type iexplore, both are fine.
 
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WristyTheMod

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dping said:
I personally wouldn't use dashboard but I can see why you'd want to. yes.
you can always run old internet explorer from the start menu, just type iexplore, both are fine.
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Okay so I just streamed for 7 hours and most of the time it worked and had no lag, but it ran at around 25 fps, any way to change that so It can run smooth?
 
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dping

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WristyTheMod said:
https://gist.github.com/bb7e06dc72b8383df167
It shows dropped frames (within a minute of stream) and 25 fps and lower.
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the best measurement is at 5 minute time frame. if its below 1% duplicated frames, you're fine. you are sitting at exactly 0.15% duplicated frames which is really good. your initial duplicated frames was probably from alt tabbing or changing, in-game settings. I would raise to 30fps

I will point out that your main issue is your CPU thread frame but it is not that bad, but it will be your barrier depending on the game. basically either your CPU is thermal throttling (could be even VRMs) or you might check what else you have running. as I said, stick with edge browser for now and dont have extra tabs you dont need, open.
 
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WristyTheMod

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dping said:
the best measurement is at 5 minute time frame. if its below 1% duplicated frames, you're fine. you are sitting at exactly 0.15% duplicated frames which is really good. your initial duplicated frames was probably from alt tabbing or changing, in-game settings. I would raise to 30fps

I will point out that your main issue is your CPU thread frame but it is not that bad, but it will be your barrier depending on the game. basically either your CPU is thermal throttling (could be even VRMs) or you might check what else you have running. as I said, stick with edge browser for now and dont have extra tabs you dont need, open.
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So I bumped it up to 30fps and I got over 600 frames dropped in 1 minute. https://gist.github.com/ca9098e3ead756710c37 I only had open edge (twitch dashboard), OBS with 2 scenes in 1 source (Monitor 1 ACTIVE, Game capture NOT ACTIVE) and steam library.
 
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dping

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WristyTheMod said:
So I bumped it up to 30fps and I got over 600 frames dropped in 1 minute. https://gist.github.com/ca9098e3ead756710c37 I only had open edge (twitch dashboard), OBS with 2 scenes in 1 source (Monitor 1 ACTIVE, Game capture NOT ACTIVE) and steam library.
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18:12:44: Total frames encoded: 18740, total frames duplicated: 81 (0.43%)

this is your results with game capture with no game, which is good results if you had a game to capture. This was with 30fps, which I think you can do.


Dont use monitor capture if you can avoid it with game capture.




18:05:24: RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Stalled for 2139 ms to write 330639 bytes (buffer: 0 / 331776), unstable connection?

your connection did stall (not CPU related) but it was upload speed related.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/tech-support/478845-twitchtest-twitch-bandwidth-tester run this tool for your region and post a screen shot of the results . Alt+Prtscn should copy the active window if the tool then paste it to imgur.com. When you do this, you should not be doing anything else on your PC.
 
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