Question / Help obs program fps drop

cyraxxwins

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hey, so i've been using OBS for a while now, and I just started back streaming and for some reason my FPS on the OBS program drops.. i have absolutely no idea why.. my ingame ms is 10-12 and FPS is 100+. I've never had a problem streaming before.. also when I check my CPU usage in my task manager, my OBS is always the highest like.. 28-40. any help would be great thank you
 

Krazy

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Downscale to 720p, you're getting a decent amount of late frames which means your system isn't quite keeping up. You should be able to do 720p just fine. Can probably lower your bitrate to under 3000 as well.
 

Lain

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Re: obs program fps drop [appears to be solved]

As indicated by the line:
14:50:27: Number of frames skipped due to encoder lag: 1852 (48.56%)

It would appear that the encoder cannot keep up. Your CPU isn't all that bad, so if I had to guess, I would say that something else is eating up all your CPU (to a rather significant extent as well)
 

cyraxxwins

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Re: obs program fps drop [appears to be solved]

So - when I am just running WoW, its CPU usage is 6-10.. when i open OBS, and start stream or preview stream.. OBS cpu usage hovers around 60, and wow changes to 20-60.. any thoughts..?
 

Lain

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I don't quite know unfortunately -- what I can tell you is that something is eating up all your CPU. OBS itself isn't using that much CPU, because it's only encoding a 720p 25fps video, and you don't even have any other things active like webcams, so OBS is definitely not eating much CPU itself. Something else is eating your CPU. It could be WoW, or something else on your computer doing that.

Alternatively, if you can't figure out what's going on, you could just use a bit more downscale in OBS to reduce CPU usage a bit more if you can't figure out what it is. You could also try "superfast" x264 CPU preset if you don't want to modify the resolution, though that will decrease your quality a bit in exchange for decreasing CPU usage.

Again, your CPU isn't that bad so it shouldn't have too hard of a time handling it, but I don't know how much CPU world of warcraft uses these days so I couldn't say.
 

dodgepong

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bazsee12, your issue is that you're using Monitor capture. Don't use Monitor capture if you can avoid it, and prefer Window capture with Aero enabled, or game capture if you're capturing a game. Or if you really want to continue using Monitor capture, then get Windows 8.
 

Lain

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bazsee12 - That last log was actually a good run. Had no real issues, outside of getting disconnected.
 
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