Overlay on Google Drive Cloud is slow

[Boldegg]

Hi, I'm using 2 computers to stream so I need my overlay files to be stored in the cloud. I'm already paying for Google Drive so that's the one I'll be using. Basically it's working but booting OBS is taking a lot of time for unknown reasons.

Google Drive creates a G:/ drive in your computer and you have the possibility to store some files offline and stored on your local disk C:/. I've done that for my overlay folder where are my files in my OBS overlay. The issue is that it's taking a lot of time for OBS to boot. Once it's started everything works flawlessly without slowdowns.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks!

 

[R1CH]

That's somewhat expected - OBS has to load the files on startup, if they are on a remote network drive that will take longer than if they are on your local disk. Even if the virtual drive syncs them locally, there still has to be a version / conflict check on every access. I would not recommend cloud-stored assets for production use.

 

[Boldegg]

That's somewhat expected - OBS has to load the files on startup, if they are on a remote network drive that will take longer than if they are on your local disk. Even if the virtual drive syncs them locally, there still has to be a version / conflict check on every access. I would not recommend cloud-stored assets for production use.

Pretty interesting information here. In the past I've been using OBS on a network drive (my server) and it's been an awful experience. Everytime the server would fail (reboot, lan, crash, etc) it would make OBS crash and not able to close. Also impossible to end task in task manager having you to reboot the computer.

I though having the local offline access on the G:/ (Google virtual drive) would help. As of now the only downside using a virtual drive is longer boot time for OBS. I'll test it for 1 month and come back here and say if it's been stable apart of the boot time.

I also tried to find the local files but Google encrypts them in a cache folder which makes it impossible for OBS to read them.

Path of cache folder on C:/ of the virtual G:/ drive is

C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Google\DriveFS\RandomNumber\content_cache

Thanks for replying.

 

[Boldegg]

I've been using this method for more than a month now and it's working perfectly.

The wait time dissapeared few days after I initially made that post, don't ask me why.

I don't recommend this method but if you need something like this, it works.