CornWood
New Member
Long post incoming.
I have a AMD 6350 @ 4.5 and a C985 live gamer HD in a separate streaming PC. With .63b I've had nothing but issues with a weird frame stutter at 60fps. It will work absolutely flawless for 3-4 minutes, then I get a weird frame drop that occurs for 1-2 minutes. It looks like the preview image is running at 59fps for a bit. This happens when encoding, and even when not. It will then clear up, and resume perfect 60fps after. I even used fraps to overlay the FPS on the preview image and sure enough, for that small period of time it is dropping from 59 to 60 fps.
I've troubleshot this for over a week. Looking through logs, reading forums... and doing everything I could to clear this up. The logs show less than 1% duplicated frames and very little latency on the CPU cycles even with the avermedia stutter.
Eventually, I tried out OBS Studio 0.7.2 and it completely fixed the issue. I do not get the frame drop no matter how long I run the stream. On top of that, OBS studio resulted in some insane performance gains on this streaming PC. For instance, I am able to run an entire preset lower on x264 (fast on .72 vs faster on .63b) with plenty of headroom left and 0 stutter.
Can anyone shed some light on why this might be? What is so different in .72 that would account for the frame skipping issue being resolved, and the x264 performance being so much better? This is a fresh install of windows 8.1.
Unfortunately, .72 does not support a proper browser plugin with color key or html5 support, so I am unable to use follower alerts at the moment. This is the only thing that is preventing me from being totally happy with my stream setup. Does anyone know an alternate method to get some type of alerts on my stream that would work with the multi platform release of OBS?
Thanks guys,
CornWood
I have a AMD 6350 @ 4.5 and a C985 live gamer HD in a separate streaming PC. With .63b I've had nothing but issues with a weird frame stutter at 60fps. It will work absolutely flawless for 3-4 minutes, then I get a weird frame drop that occurs for 1-2 minutes. It looks like the preview image is running at 59fps for a bit. This happens when encoding, and even when not. It will then clear up, and resume perfect 60fps after. I even used fraps to overlay the FPS on the preview image and sure enough, for that small period of time it is dropping from 59 to 60 fps.
I've troubleshot this for over a week. Looking through logs, reading forums... and doing everything I could to clear this up. The logs show less than 1% duplicated frames and very little latency on the CPU cycles even with the avermedia stutter.
Eventually, I tried out OBS Studio 0.7.2 and it completely fixed the issue. I do not get the frame drop no matter how long I run the stream. On top of that, OBS studio resulted in some insane performance gains on this streaming PC. For instance, I am able to run an entire preset lower on x264 (fast on .72 vs faster on .63b) with plenty of headroom left and 0 stutter.
Can anyone shed some light on why this might be? What is so different in .72 that would account for the frame skipping issue being resolved, and the x264 performance being so much better? This is a fresh install of windows 8.1.
Unfortunately, .72 does not support a proper browser plugin with color key or html5 support, so I am unable to use follower alerts at the moment. This is the only thing that is preventing me from being totally happy with my stream setup. Does anyone know an alternate method to get some type of alerts on my stream that would work with the multi platform release of OBS?
Thanks guys,
CornWood