Question / Help OBS affecting games now but not before

Cursona

New Member
Hey everybody,

I have streamed for a couple months now and everything has gone fine. Games and OBS run smoothly. UNTIL NOW.

When streaming CS:GO last night I noticed the game seem to skip/drop frames. When OBS is not running the game does not do this. I've never had this problem with CS:GO. We did a 4 hour long CS:GO stream a week or so ago in February. But since last night I can't stream the game without the frame drops. I tried many settings in game and on OBS and not much seems to work. I tried Insurgency as well and similar results.

Here is my log report: https://gist.github.com/ea8c2557f51061c393d7

Macbook Pro Specs:
Chipset Model:Intel HD Graphics 4000

Type:GPU

Bus:Built-In

VRAM (Dynamic, Max):1024 MB

Vendor:Intel (0x8086)

Device ID:0x0166

Revision ID:0x0009

This is what it looked like before: http://www.twitch.tv/cursonafun/c/6188015
Now: http://www.twitch.tv/cursonafun/b/635331350

It might not look different stream wise but it looks different in game when OBS is on or off.

If you need anything like log reports from the "good" streams let me know. Cause I have it.
 

RaverX3X

New Member
Are you getting litteral FPS drops in game or just on stream..

If just on stream it could be do to Twitch server load or your connection to twitch it does happen form time to time.. Especially with non partner streams.

If its literal fps drops it could be a update to the game is causing a issue with obs. If its obs frame drops that just happens with twitch...
 

Cursona

New Member
The frames are only dropping in game. But for all my games there is frames dropping when OBS is streaming. But OBS does not drop frames.

I tried again today and no luck. I hope its just twitch servers in my area. Cause I can't seem to figure anything out.
 

RaverX3X

New Member
The frames are only dropping in game. But for all my games there is frames dropping when OBS is streaming. But OBS does not drop frames.

I tried again today and no luck. I hope its just twitch servers in my area. Cause I can't seem to figure anything out.

Ok if obs is not dropping frames.. Your games are then thats a issue on your end not twitch's.

Change your cpu preset from very fast to ultrafast Your cpu is having issue keeping up so your loosing fps in game to compensate for obs overhead.

Why it was working fine and now it doesn't could be a obs regression issue. Could be a update to CS that is using more CPU/ GPU then before.

i did notice your getting

21:17:56: glClear failed, glGetError returned 0x506

21:17:56: device_clear (GL) failed

21:17:56: encoder 'simple_h264' destroyed

21:17:56: glClear failed, glGetError returned 0x506

21:17:56: device_clear (GL) failed

21:17:56: glClear failed, glGetError returned 0x506

21:17:56: device_clear (GL) failed

alot which could be a factor.

Heres my log to demonstrate.

Code:
04:07:39: OBS 0.8.3-58-gb03eae5 (mac)
04:07:39: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4258U CPU @ 2.40GHz
04:07:39: CPU Speed: 2400MHz
04:07:39: Physical Cores: 2, Logical Cores: 4
04:07:39: Physical Memory: 8192MB Total
04:07:39: OS Name: Mac OS X (NSMACHOperatingSystem)
04:07:39: OS Version: Version 10.10.2 (Build 14C1510)
04:07:39: Kernel Version: 14.1.0
04:07:39: audio settings reset:
    samples per sec: 44100
    speakers:        2
    buffering (ms):  1000

04:07:40: video settings reset:
    base resolution:   1280x800
    output resolution: 1280x720
    fps:               30/1
04:07:40: output 'adv_stream' (rtmp_output) created
04:07:40: output 'adv_file_output' (flv_output) created
04:07:40: encoder 'streaming_h264' (obs_x264) created
04:07:40: encoder 'adv_aac0' (libfdk_aac) created
04:07:40: encoder 'adv_aac1' (libfdk_aac) created
04:07:40: encoder 'adv_aac2' (libfdk_aac) created
04:07:40: encoder 'adv_aac3' (libfdk_aac) created
04:07:40: service 'default_service' (rtmp_common) created
04:07:41: coreaudio: device 'Sound Siphon' initialized
04:07:41: source 'Desktop Audio' (coreaudio_output_capture) created
04:07:41: coreaudio: device 'Built-in Microphone' initialized
04:07:41: source 'Mic/Aux' (coreaudio_input_capture) created
04:07:41: source 'Scene' (scene) created
04:07:41: Video Capture Device: Selected device 'FaceTime HD Camera'
04:07:41: Video Capture Device: Using preset 1280x720
04:07:41: source 'Video Capture Device' (av_capture_input) created
04:07:41: source 'camborder' (image_source) created
04:07:41: source 'jamielinux' (text_ft2_source) created
04:07:41: source 'falloutzone' (image_source) created
04:07:41: obs-data.c: [obs_data_create_from_json] Failed reading json string (1): '[' or '{' expected near end of file
04:07:41: source 'Game Capture (Syphon)' (syphon-input) created
04:07:41: Unexpected pixel format: 0 (
04:07:42: Update check: latest version is: 0.6.1
04:20:40: encoder 'streaming_h264' destroyed
04:20:40: encoder 'adv_aac3' destroyed
04:20:40: encoder 'adv_aac2' destroyed
04:20:40: encoder 'adv_aac1' destroyed
04:20:40: encoder 'adv_aac0' destroyed
04:20:40: output 'adv_stream' destroyed
04:20:40: output 'adv_file_output' destroyed
04:20:40: source 'Desktop Audio' destroyed
04:20:40: source 'Mic/Aux' destroyed
04:20:41: Freeing OBS context data
04:20:41:     6 user source(s) were remaining
04:20:41: source 'Scene' destroyed
04:20:41: source 'Game Capture (Syphon)' destroyed
04:20:41: source 'Video Capture Device' destroyed
04:20:41: source 'camborder' destroyed
04:20:41: source 'jamielinux' destroyed
04:20:41: source 'falloutzone' destroyed
04:20:41: service 'default_service' destroyed
04:20:41:     1 service(s) were remaining
04:20:41: Number of memory leaks: 0
 
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