Question / Help Please Help, Tried Everything: Low FPS when streaming

[traciawindsor]

I feel like i have tried every combination of encoding, bitrate, and resolution, but I still can not stream.

I have an i5-4690k 3.5GHz processor, 16gig RAM, and a R9-290. this thing should kick some serious butt but it seriously lacks when it comes to streaming.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gKc8wP/by_merchant/

I constantly get single digets FPS when i stream any game. The two main games I tried were H1Z1 and Minecraft. When i streamed H1Z1, my game lagged so bad it was unplayable. Then i tried to mess around with minecraft and when I tried optimal settings based on this site suggestions my game lagged sigificantly thanks to high CPU usage, and when I tweaked it just enough so there was a comprimise of game lag vs stream lag, my viewers told me it was still unwatchable.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I get around 11MPS upload for my internet and my computer should handle it. I dont get what I am doing wrong.

https://gist.github.com/c9c7eb3383cabbd7f951

Please help,
Thank you

 

[sam686]

Try going to your OBS video capture for your USB webcam, and reduce webcam resolution to 640x480 or lower, which can free enough CPU usage.

Or, unplug USB webcam to check if webcam was the cause of too much CPU usage and low FPS.

If CPU usage too high without webcam, then maybe try superfast preset to lower CPU usage at a small cost of quality.

 

[Osiris]

Try checking your CPU temperatures, that amount of skipped frames is not normal on that CPU with that low of a resolution.

 

[traciawindsor]

So I lowered my webcam resolution to 480 which made Minecraft 90% streamable. It still froze every once in a while, but that is most likely the game.

But all other games are really choppy. Not as bad as before, but it freezes for half a second every 3 seconds or so. I tried H1Z1, Stranded Deep, and The Long Dark all on Medium-Low settings.

My temps for all games stayed approx GPU: 45 C and CPU 30 C

I regret now not having my FPS displayed, as I only have one monitor and cant see what OBS says.

I do not have my stream open in another tab.

I am not sure what is what, so here are all my log files from today

https://gist.github.com/cfdebb35759b8d1e677c
https://gist.github.com/c2837467b02c006ec2b4
https://gist.github.com/301d42f4d52dd6718fb1

Thank you for your help

 

[sam686]

Not as bad as before, but it freezes for half a second every 3 seconds or so. I tried H1Z1, Stranded Deep, and The Long Dark all on Medium-Low settings.

My temps for all games stayed approx GPU: 45 C and CPU 30 C

This really sound like some kind of CPU throttling, like something may be overheating, slowing down to prevent damage.

What temperature monitoring you using? I like to use HWMonitor, maybe use HWMonitor as it shows lots of sensors.

Can try intelBurnTest stress testing the cpu, make sure multiple runs are just about the same speed. For my i7-2600, 4 threads, standard (1024 MB), i get between 64 and 65 GFlops for most runs.

 

[dping]

So I lowered my webcam resolution to 480 which made Minecraft 90% streamable. It still froze every once in a while, but that is most likely the game.

But all other games are really choppy. Not as bad as before, but it freezes for half a second every 3 seconds or so. I tried H1Z1, Stranded Deep, and The Long Dark all on Medium-Low settings.

My temps for all games stayed approx GPU: 45 C and CPU 30 C

I regret now not having my FPS displayed, as I only have one monitor and cant see what OBS says.

I do not have my stream open in another tab.

I am not sure what is what, so here are all my log files from today

https://gist.github.com/cfdebb35759b8d1e677c
https://gist.github.com/c2837467b02c006ec2b4
https://gist.github.com/301d42f4d52dd6718fb1

Thank you for your help

set base resolution in OBS to 1920x1080 then downscale to 480p

Next uninstall rivatuner. its is an active hook that is conflicting with OBS

 

[traciawindsor]

I use MSI Afterburner and nothing ever got above those numbers. Is 30C really too hot for a CPU?

I should also add my CPU usage is like 95% and I get alters on OBS saying "High CPU Usage!". Is that still a temperature thing?

And it performs the same with or without MSI running. I know OBS throws up conflict warnings, but I don't notice a difference between when I am and when I am not running it. But I can try another monitor if someone thinks that's it...

 

[sam686]

I use MSI Afterburner and nothing ever got above those numbers. Is 30C really too hot for a CPU?

I use HWMonitor, which shows my CPU is i7-2600, idles at 35 C, and runs at 74 C under load, without throttling slowing down. Try using HWMonitor to check more temperatures. HWMonitor can also show CPU Mhz going down when idling or overheating.

Check task manager to look as what program using up too much CPU usage. if it is something other then OBS using too much CPU usage, close that down.

 

[dping]

I use HWMonitor, which shows my CPU is i7-2600, idles at 35 C, and runs at 74 C under load, without throttling slowing down. Try using HWMonitor to check more temperatures. HWMonitor can also show CPU Mhz going down when idling or overheating.

Check task manager to look as what program using up too much CPU usage. if it is something other then OBS using too much CPU usage, close that down.

TCASE 72.6°C
This is your max CPU IHS temps. the heatspreader temps, not the core temps. you are running hot so you might want to take a look at that.