Question / Help Not quite sure why the game is lagging.

[Fredrik Ståhl]

Hi, I have a custom built PC that should be able to stream games without much of any issue, but somehow whenever I try to stream my game starts to lag, not so much, but it feels slow and "thick" in some way.

This is my current PC spec:

PSU - Antec PowerSupply High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze

CPU - AMD FX-8350 4GHz Black Edition - Socket AM3+

Motherboard - Asus M5A97 R2.0, AMD 970 Socket AM3+, ATX

GPU - ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB OC (GTX650TI-OC-2GD5)

My bitrate up is currently 10mb/s.

I have set my max bitrate (kb/s) to 3200 as well as buffer size, and my FPS is set to 25.

CBR is enabled as well as CFR, but somehow, it just makes everything slow and unplayable for serious purpose.

However, it doesnt seem to be acting this way using Xsplit free trial of streaming program.



Would appreciate if anyone could tell me what might be wrong.


Thanks,


Karanoz

 

[dodgepong]

Can you post your log? (Here's how)

 

[Fredrik Ståhl]

https://gist.github.com/1b1ac9ba9934b87a0906

Here it is, hope it will help.

 

[Fredrik Ståhl]

https://gist.github.com/06594b35303b579d135e

And here is another set of logs.

 

[dodgepong]

Well, OBS itself seems to be performing just fine...what is the OBS process priority set to?

When you say lag, do you mean high ping? If you're getting high ping, that means your stream and the game are competing too much for your internet connection. First try enabling "Minimize Network Impact" in Broadcast Settings, and if that still doesn't help, try lowering the bit rate that you are streaming at.

 

[Fredrik Ståhl]

It had nothing to do with the ping, just that the game move " sluggish " it feels "thick" as i mentioned in previous post.
The process priority class is set to normal, the x264 cpu preset is: veryfast and changing it to superfast didnt really change much.

 

[dodgepong]

Well, like I said, OBS is doing fine. If it's impacting your performance too much, you can try lowering your OBS settings (reducing downscale, for example). You might be able to get away with lowering the OBS process priority to below normal, but I don't usually recommend that, because then OBS might not perform as well. If you're not able to get things to a way you want them, then perhaps you should consider getting a second PC to do the encoding.

 

[Fredrik Ståhl]

To give an example, Dota 2 is a game where it has smoke animation for example, and while streaming, its not flowing as smoothly as it does when i am not streaming. basically its jerky and sluggish.

 

[Fredrik Ståhl]

Ok, I will try to look around with the settings, but i think that it comes down to my CPU simply not being up to the task, either that, or the PSU.