Optimizing source file locations on multiple drives

_AgentCobra

_AgentCobra

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Currently I have OBS and Warzone (game) running on C drive (M2 drive) but have all my video files and transitions on a separate SSD drive.

I'm wondering if these heavy video files, transitions, overlays ect would run more efficiently on the C drive as well. right now I'm bottle necked by the CPU and it can cause transition audio buzzing, would this mitigate it or reduce it's effects, or is a dual pc setup the only viable end game?
 
It's actually recommended NOT to keep them on your OS drive, to avoid system-level read/write interruptions. I have a dedicated SSD just for my OBS sources and other livestream-related assets (sound files for alerts, stingers, promo videos), and a second drive just for local recording.

With the advent and progress of NVENC, 2PC setups are effectively pointless outside of some very specific edge-cases, and only add complexity to a setup.

The real trick is to ensure your system's PCIe bus isn't being flooded or split, to maximize throughput to the GPU so assets can be transferred there as quickly as possible for color conversion, scaling, and compositing. It's one reason that SLI setups are strongly advised-against (splitting the x16 bus into x8/x8) along with making sure your BIOS is configured to give full bandwidth.

Warzone is a known problem-game though. Dedicated fixes for it are planned for the v27 update, and included in the current release candidate. Warzone is not coded well, and causes problems.
 
Depending on how much spare RAM you have, you could store some files on a RAM Disk (such as text files that are constantly being updated and images) I think the min size for FAT RAM disk is 65 KB so it can be really small. Let me know if this not a good idea. I used ImDisk.
 
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qhobbes said:
Depending on how much spare RAM you have, you could store some files on a RAM Disk (such as text files that are constantly being updated and images) I think the min size for FAT RAM disk is 65 KB so it can be really small. Let me know if this not a good idea. I used ImDisk.
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I'm speaking to larger video files, webm and lossless avi, alpha based transitions and or full hd loop background videos, sometimes being activated at the same time. File sizes range between 10mb and 2gb.
 
FerretBomb said:
It's actually recommended NOT to keep them on your OS drive, to avoid system-level read/write interruptions. I have a dedicated SSD just for my OBS sources and other livestream-related assets (sound files for alerts, stingers, promo videos), and a second drive just for local recording.

With the advent and progress of NVENC, 2PC setups are effectively pointless outside of some very specific edge-cases, and only add complexity to a setup.

The real trick is to ensure your system's PCIe bus isn't being flooded or split, to maximize throughput to the GPU so assets can be transferred there as quickly as possible for color conversion, scaling, and compositing. It's one reason that SLI setups are strongly advised-against (splitting the x16 bus into x8/x8) along with making sure your BIOS is configured to give full bandwidth.

Warzone is a known problem-game though. Dedicated fixes for it are planned for the v27 update, and included in the current release candidate. Warzone is not coded well, and causes problems.
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Thank you, very informative answer! Really appreciated!
 
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