Fam3mon5ster
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decided to try to give the official build OBS 23.0.1 w/ Nvenc NEW a shot once again after having poor results during beta / pre-release - till this day I still cant for the life of me figure out why I get terrible results - Am I doing something wrong? I followed the guide - gone through the posts - disabled all "extra features" yet still run into encoder problems and surprisingly Skipped frames even though my cpu sits around 30% ?? lagged frames are a given - I push 3440x1440 resolution and all my settings are usually all maxed out - after a stream when using x264 @ medium or nvenc old HQ- log will show some type of lagged frames ill usually sitting at 0.1% over a 5-hour+ stream --yea I can turn down from ultra and go high maybe and eliminate .1 % out of 1 million frames rendered but hey i got high end stuff for a reason.
anyways during the beta though I was one of the ones taking the advice of limiting ur frames and lowering graphics settings and other misc but even then.. results - still terrible performance out of this encoder im baffled. I played BO4 earlier today with limits and lowered graphics to high and still ran into encoder issues - gpu was sitting in the 80% usage range cpu again 30 % even less at times - did some recording tests mimicking my stream settings running gears of war 4 benchmark -- 3 runs on each recording -- ultra everything -- used the "OLD" nvenc for comparison to and u can clearly see the old nvenc " NVENC ENCODER" simply out performs the new Nvenc " JIM-NVENC" -both encoders will hit up to 98-99% although the old for it to hit that i had to put the encoder to max quality or change the b-frames from 2 to 4-- even with the settings upped to a " max" state the old one is clearly handling the recording/stream like a champ even at that usage that's pretty much maxed out vs new nvenc - which BTW I did find out that you can now run it up to about 98% and look smooth on playback until u hit 99% then its a wrap - so kudos on that fix as tit came along way since pre-release.
yes new nvenc hit 99% usage during the recordings and yes I know that could have contributed to the lagged frames but whats odd is thats a benchmark so its pegged to that usage at times compared to a regular multiplayer match in bo4 that was not even close to the 99% usage mark - it was sitting at 78 - 90 % at times ( 10 % below 100 % usage which was recommended in the pre-release discussion & even till this day) in which its why I personally feel like either the new nvenc does not like A. Ultra wide resolutions or B. well crap I dont even know at this point your guess is as good as mine. any suggestions ?
I find it silly that this new nvenc is suppose to be more efficient and optimized and well the "replacement" for the old nvenc from what it looks like yet on certain setups ? maybe - old nvenc simply outshines it. at least technically speaking for my setup because I do hear good things about it but I find myself in weird state where I also too wanna take advantage of these new settings yet i just cant. I even went as far as again disabling all the extra features to reflect the old Nvenc yet i lagged like crazy.
Also anyone notice that "CQP" is on @ 20 by default now? vs 0 on old? whats the deal with that ? is this to "improve quality?"
anyways during the beta though I was one of the ones taking the advice of limiting ur frames and lowering graphics settings and other misc but even then.. results - still terrible performance out of this encoder im baffled. I played BO4 earlier today with limits and lowered graphics to high and still ran into encoder issues - gpu was sitting in the 80% usage range cpu again 30 % even less at times - did some recording tests mimicking my stream settings running gears of war 4 benchmark -- 3 runs on each recording -- ultra everything -- used the "OLD" nvenc for comparison to and u can clearly see the old nvenc " NVENC ENCODER" simply out performs the new Nvenc " JIM-NVENC" -both encoders will hit up to 98-99% although the old for it to hit that i had to put the encoder to max quality or change the b-frames from 2 to 4-- even with the settings upped to a " max" state the old one is clearly handling the recording/stream like a champ even at that usage that's pretty much maxed out vs new nvenc - which BTW I did find out that you can now run it up to about 98% and look smooth on playback until u hit 99% then its a wrap - so kudos on that fix as tit came along way since pre-release.
yes new nvenc hit 99% usage during the recordings and yes I know that could have contributed to the lagged frames but whats odd is thats a benchmark so its pegged to that usage at times compared to a regular multiplayer match in bo4 that was not even close to the 99% usage mark - it was sitting at 78 - 90 % at times ( 10 % below 100 % usage which was recommended in the pre-release discussion & even till this day) in which its why I personally feel like either the new nvenc does not like A. Ultra wide resolutions or B. well crap I dont even know at this point your guess is as good as mine. any suggestions ?
I find it silly that this new nvenc is suppose to be more efficient and optimized and well the "replacement" for the old nvenc from what it looks like yet on certain setups ? maybe - old nvenc simply outshines it. at least technically speaking for my setup because I do hear good things about it but I find myself in weird state where I also too wanna take advantage of these new settings yet i just cant. I even went as far as again disabling all the extra features to reflect the old Nvenc yet i lagged like crazy.
Also anyone notice that "CQP" is on @ 20 by default now? vs 0 on old? whats the deal with that ? is this to "improve quality?"