OBS Lags on YouTube

[oseidwomoh8]

I use obs all the time for gaming and YouTube. And while a little lag in gaming is ok, what's not ok is on YouTube. Even with OBS and Chrome active and nothing else, all of a sudden, it either lowers the quality or studders. This is not what OBS should be like. So I hope the next version has updates to performance. I really hope. Past versions would never lag at all. Thanks

- Osei Dwomoh

PC Info:
Lenovo Yoga 6
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650U 2.1 GHz
8 GB DDR4 Dual Channel 3200 MHz
256 GB SSD
13.3" FHD (1920x1080) Screen
Windows 11 22H2

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

That is a 9 generation old ultra-low power CPU, for real-time video encoding. congrats you had that working ok before.
Upgrading to Win11 was probably a mistake, at least at this point. And if the older versions of OBS Studio worked for you, then I'd advise going back to an older version, or figuring out which setting changed, or new feature you are using that is pushing your computer to be overloaded.
You have an under-powered computer for real-time video encoding, so you need to make sure you are optimizing at the operating system level, and some new features in the newer versions of OBS will be more demanding on the CPU. And newer versions are likely to be more of the same. It is up to you to research/figure out if those newer features are impacting you and adjust accordingly

then again, games assume relatively current CPU and RAM as well, so the games (including updates) themselves maybe what changed your hardware resource utilization

 

[oseidwomoh8]

My CPU has Six Cores and Tweleve Threads.

 

[Vittorio Fedele]

I use obs all the time for gaming and YouTube. And while a little lag in gaming is ok, what's not ok is on YouTube. Even with OBS and Chrome active and nothing else, all of a sudden, it either lowers the quality or studders. This is not what OBS should be like. So I hope the next version has updates to performance. I really hope. Past versions would never lag at all. Thanks

- Osei Dwomoh

PC Info:
Lenovo Yoga 6
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650U 2.1 GHz
8 GB DDR4 Dual Channel 3200 MHz
256 GB SSD
13.3" FHD (1920x1080) Screen
Windows 11 22H2

Welcome to the club. You're not the only one, it's even worse for me. Over the course of this month, it's now much harder for me to record the footage I need: encoding overloads, inconsistent framerate, recordings that sometimes halt for a few instants and then the audio returns, like it's stuttering. This 29.0.2 version seems either heavier or buggier. I first noticed it two weeks after getting my PC sent back from a control to fix a visual issue with lines and white covering the monitor and preventing me to see and use the PC, and the first glimpses of that were on my video editor, VideoPad, when I noticed that the videos I'm using as footage for the video I'm making seemed less fluid and with worse framerate, though perhaps it's just the project I was making for a month and a half, since the preview does tend to look like this. However, recording is now harder and more frustrating as it rarely comes out decent. I tried all i could to fix this via the guides, and nothing worked.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

My CPU has Six Cores and Tweleve Threads.

Oops, my mistake, not 9 generations old. But it is still ultra-low power CPU, designed for thin and light, long battery life; NOT computationally demanding workloads like real-time video encoding. So thermal throttling a high probabilty
Depending on OS activity and OBS settings, you are possibly low on RAM

You have not posted your OBS log per the pinned post, so none of us can review your OBS settings to see if anything obvious.