TwistedAngel254
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Hey Guys,
Just signed up because I've been racking my brains for days/weeks now trying to figure out whats going on, first I'll explain the issue then list all the technical specs, logs, settings etc. below
I stream a few games (to Twitch), some less intensive than others, for example;
League of Legends (not that intensive)
Counter Strike Global Offensive (not that intensive - maybe minor insensitivity)
Rainbox Six Siege (quite intensive)
The Division (quite intensive)
So, I can play all of the above games without any problems on Ultra graphics, not an issue, no lag, no issues and I play at 144FPS on all of them.
My issue comes down to when I try to stream.
Streaming League of Legends I don't get a single issue, no frame drops, no pauses, no lag. However should I play CSGO I get the frame pausing and lag. One thing I must stress is that it's irrelevant on settings, I tried at 720, 480 and 360p, lowering from 60 to 30 fps also, it made no difference to CSGO, simply put less stress on my CPU and GPU (which were only at 30-40% anyway) and still kept giving me random frame pausing and lag spikes.
The thing that strikes me as odd - is that the client side software of OBS doesn't lag or pause (if I have preview on), it's as smooth as my main monitor that's playing the game.
For Rainbox Six Siege / The Division, essentially the same thing happens, although Rainbox Six Siege / The Divison are bareable (to a degree) if they're on 360p - my CPU/GPU aren't being maxed out so it makes no sense why I see the pauses, especially as CSGO is not intensive in the slightest - won't even push me to 50% CPU yet I get the frame pauses / OBS lag.
I've tried messing with the x264 CPU preset to see if this helps/alleviates - no joy.
Please feel free to suggest anything you can think of, I've played with the OBS settings alot and haven't managed to fix this problem, I've probably missed out things I've already done - so apologies for that.
Hardware setup:
Upload Speed: Varies between 9-12Mbps
Encoding: x264
Use CBR: Yes
Use CFR: Yes
Max Bitrate: 3500, however I have varied between 2,000 to 7,000 for testing.
Enable CBR padding: Yes
FMS URL: Tried multiple, however is typically set to London.
Resolution Downscale: Yes, tried 720, 480 and 360.
FPS: 60 or 30
No I'm not streaming over Wi-Fi, we got a new hub (Superhub 3.0) a month or two ago and it enhanced our connection fourfold.
No firewall issues, OBS and Games are set as exceptions.
No AV issues - exceptions again.
Graphics drivers have been updated.
Hardware is solid - however I can't see that being an issue anyway if it happens with some games but not league.
Log uploaded - apologies if it's a bit messy, hopefully it provides some insight although I couldn't find much from it, the only thing I did notice was;
WARNING: Another hook is already present while trying to hook d3d9.dll, hook target is unknown. If you experience crashes, try disabling the other hooking application
But I'm pretty certain that's not an issue - as it connects seconds later and I think that's just me starting the stream rather than a continuous thing. Plus when I saw this mentioned on another topic - they simply advised something else is hooking into it - but I've tested with practically nothing else runnings and still the same issue.
Using OBS Studio v0.659b (not multiplatform).
P.S. I have reviewed all of the below in the pinned topics;
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...oads-constantly-for-my-viewers-but-why.18465/
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/dropped-frames-disconnecting-lag-read-this-first.8870/
Thanks for any suggestions/help guys!
- TA
Just signed up because I've been racking my brains for days/weeks now trying to figure out whats going on, first I'll explain the issue then list all the technical specs, logs, settings etc. below
I stream a few games (to Twitch), some less intensive than others, for example;
League of Legends (not that intensive)
Counter Strike Global Offensive (not that intensive - maybe minor insensitivity)
Rainbox Six Siege (quite intensive)
The Division (quite intensive)
So, I can play all of the above games without any problems on Ultra graphics, not an issue, no lag, no issues and I play at 144FPS on all of them.
My issue comes down to when I try to stream.
Streaming League of Legends I don't get a single issue, no frame drops, no pauses, no lag. However should I play CSGO I get the frame pausing and lag. One thing I must stress is that it's irrelevant on settings, I tried at 720, 480 and 360p, lowering from 60 to 30 fps also, it made no difference to CSGO, simply put less stress on my CPU and GPU (which were only at 30-40% anyway) and still kept giving me random frame pausing and lag spikes.
The thing that strikes me as odd - is that the client side software of OBS doesn't lag or pause (if I have preview on), it's as smooth as my main monitor that's playing the game.
For Rainbox Six Siege / The Division, essentially the same thing happens, although Rainbox Six Siege / The Divison are bareable (to a degree) if they're on 360p - my CPU/GPU aren't being maxed out so it makes no sense why I see the pauses, especially as CSGO is not intensive in the slightest - won't even push me to 50% CPU yet I get the frame pauses / OBS lag.
I've tried messing with the x264 CPU preset to see if this helps/alleviates - no joy.
Please feel free to suggest anything you can think of, I've played with the OBS settings alot and haven't managed to fix this problem, I've probably missed out things I've already done - so apologies for that.
Hardware setup:
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K (8 CPUs), 4.00GHz (Goes turbo to 4.4GHz)
- CPU Cooling Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
- Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 3
- RAM: HyperX Savage 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 2400 MHz DDR3
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI)
- Power Supply: Novatech 600W 80PLUS Gold Standard Modular
- OS: Windows 10 Enterprise
Upload Speed: Varies between 9-12Mbps
Encoding: x264
Use CBR: Yes
Use CFR: Yes
Max Bitrate: 3500, however I have varied between 2,000 to 7,000 for testing.
Enable CBR padding: Yes
FMS URL: Tried multiple, however is typically set to London.
Resolution Downscale: Yes, tried 720, 480 and 360.
FPS: 60 or 30
No I'm not streaming over Wi-Fi, we got a new hub (Superhub 3.0) a month or two ago and it enhanced our connection fourfold.
No firewall issues, OBS and Games are set as exceptions.
No AV issues - exceptions again.
Graphics drivers have been updated.
Hardware is solid - however I can't see that being an issue anyway if it happens with some games but not league.
Log uploaded - apologies if it's a bit messy, hopefully it provides some insight although I couldn't find much from it, the only thing I did notice was;
WARNING: Another hook is already present while trying to hook d3d9.dll, hook target is unknown. If you experience crashes, try disabling the other hooking application
But I'm pretty certain that's not an issue - as it connects seconds later and I think that's just me starting the stream rather than a continuous thing. Plus when I saw this mentioned on another topic - they simply advised something else is hooking into it - but I've tested with practically nothing else runnings and still the same issue.
Using OBS Studio v0.659b (not multiplatform).
P.S. I have reviewed all of the below in the pinned topics;
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...oads-constantly-for-my-viewers-but-why.18465/
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/dropped-frames-disconnecting-lag-read-this-first.8870/
Thanks for any suggestions/help guys!
- TA
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