Question / Help [PLEASE RESPOND] OBS Lag, I have had this problem for over a month now!

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ItsMoonless

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So about a month and a half ago, I was about to stream with OBS, but when I loaded up Minecraft it went from 1000+ FPS to 30 FPS. Ever since I haven't been able to figure out this problem. I have been looking all over the forums, but nobody has helped anyone with this issue. For example, the following posts:

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/frame-rate-drop-when-obs-open.77245/

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/minecraft-slows-down.77383/

The thing is when I load up Minecraft it lags, but Overwatch on max settings is just fine with a smooth 100+ FPS

Specs
Intel i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60Ghz, ~3.6GHz
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 3GB

I will follow-up on this post soon with a log file.
Thank you so much for your help, I really need it.
 
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BornDownUnder

Member
Game DVR is Windows' own recording utility, if you don't use it turn it off in Windows Settings. It is taxing resources by running in the background automatically when it detects you playing a game.
04:12:54.951: Game DVR: On

The below colour format is not available by NVENC encoder, h264 encoders only use NV12 colour format, x264 encoders can use others.
04:12:55.558: format: RGBA
04:12:55.558: GPU conversion not available for format: 6

The below capture methods in the scene 'Recording' are conflicting, you should use Game Capture as it is the most efficient method to grab frames for recording/streaming.
04:12:56.676: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture)
04:12:56.676: - source: 'Game Capture 2' (game_capture)
04:12:56.676: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)

Lastly:
Your bitrate is really low for 1080p60fps, try 6k (For Twitch) or 8-9k (For YouTube)
For recording only, use CQ rate control method, try for 15-23 (Lower number is higher quality)
You should use High profile for recording, main for streaming (Compatibility for low spec viewers to help with buffering issues, such as mobile device users)
You should use High Performance mode, try High Quality mode if you don't have any rendering lag, as stated in your logfile by the line below:
Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls:

Can you do another recording test and upload the associated logfile for that recording please, we'll go from there.

- Also for streaming, you should take a look at my post in the previous thread as it should help you:
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...h-cpu-usage-low-frame-rate.77354/#post-326967
 
BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

Active Member
ItsMoonless said:
So about a month and a half ago, I was about to stream with OBS, but when I loaded up Minecraft it went from 1000+ FPS to 30 FPS[...]
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Limit your ingame FPS, so you don't choke CPU/GPU.
Don't use Monitor Capture+Game Capture+Window Capture at the same time.
Turn Off Windows Game DVR and make sure Nvidia Shadowplay (share feature in Geforce Experience) is off.

btw: 1080p60fps will look horrible when you move around in the game, unless you use ~10.000kbit/s bitrate.
 
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PlantRadionics

New Member
You are not alone. I was streaming perfectly fine, having OBS open while not even broadcasting was perfectly fine YESTERDAY the ram usage when NOT BROADCASTING was only around 600 mb. Then all of a sudden, despite having Windows Updates service completely disabled, a Windows Update forced its way onto my computer and all of a sudden OBS running while not even broadcasting decided to look like this:
upload_2018-2-18_6-35-9.png


Now keep in mind I didn't touch anything. I have read both this and HAZMAT's thread and nothing anyone stated has helped. Everything is disabled from GeForce streaming to the Windows DVR thing. This is weird. I'm going to update my graphics driver right now and then reinstall OBS completely and see what happens.
 
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PlantRadionics

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After multiple restarts, I noticed SOMETIMES OBS is running at only 900 MB usage! And then next reboot its back at nearly 4k all over again. I am now without a choice and will attempt a full reinstallation of OBS.
 
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PlantRadionics

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It's completely random whether it decides to look like this:
upload_2018-2-19_7-13-4.png

or randomly after multiple times restarting the pc or the program ifI'm lucky enough it might look ideal like this:
unknown.png

notice how it's running better while broadcasting a game than it does not even live or with anything else running? completely random I can't figure this crap out. OBS is all of a sudden fucked out of nowhere.... It was fine for YEARS
 
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SatisfiedJake

New Member
I'm having this same type of issue. When I'm not even live my OBS and csgo take up a huge amount of my CPU and GPU usage. The other day it used a lot of memory to. This all happened out of no where as well. I don't know if it's an update or what's happening but I am unable to stream currently because of this issue.
 
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PlantRadionics

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PlantRadionics said:
how? where are the log files located? incredibly helpful of you to point out the obvious without any actual attempts of guidance. can we get a better moderator in here?
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hold on. what log files? all of them? when OBS was working perfectly yesterday and the ones from today which i haven't even been able to broadcast yet?
 
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PlantRadionics

New Member
at the expense of what little left-brain i was hoping to use for gaming this morning, here you go. sorry for being rude.

08:21:14.592: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
08:21:14.592: CPU Speed: 3408MHz
08:21:14.592: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
08:21:14.592: Physical Memory: 8144MB Total, 6471MB Free
08:21:14.592: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 16299 (revision: 248; 64-bit)
08:21:14.592: Running as administrator: false
08:21:14.592: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
08:21:14.592: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
08:21:14.592: Game Bar: Off
08:21:14.592: Game DVR: Off
08:21:14.592: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
08:21:14.593: Sec. Software Status:
08:21:14.594: Windows Defender Antivirus: disabled (AV)
08:21:14.595: Windows Firewall: disabled (FW)
08:21:14.595: Windows Defender Antivirus: disabled (ASW)
08:21:14.595: Portable mode: false
08:21:14.607: OBS 21.0.1 (64bit, windows)
08:21:14.607: ---------------------------------
08:21:14.607: ---------------------------------
08:21:14.607: audio settings reset:
08:21:14.607: samples per sec: 44100
08:21:14.607: speakers: 2
08:21:14.608: ---------------------------------
08:21:14.608: Initializing D3D11...
08:21:14.608: Available Video Adapters:
08:21:14.609: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
08:21:14.609: Dedicated VRAM: 4239917056
08:21:14.609: Shared VRAM: 4270034944
08:21:14.609: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1360, 768}, attached=true
08:21:14.611: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (0)
08:21:14.641: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
08:21:15.232: ---------------------------------
08:21:15.232: video settings reset:
08:21:15.232: base resolution: 1360x768
08:21:15.232: output resolution: 1360x768
08:21:15.232: downscale filter: Bicubic
08:21:15.232: fps: 60/1
08:21:15.232: format: NV12
08:21:15.234: Audio monitoring device:
08:21:15.234: name: Default
08:21:15.234: id: default
08:21:15.234: ---------------------------------
08:21:15.235: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll' not found, loading of module failed
08:21:15.236: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
08:21:15.253: [AMF] <obs_module_load> AMF not supported (no AMD graphics)
08:21:15.253: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
08:21:15.261: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll' not found, loading of module failed
08:21:15.261: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not found, loading of module failed
08:21:15.261: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll' not found, loading of module failed
08:21:15.262: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'obs-browser.dll'
08:21:15.262: [browser_source: 'Version: 1.29.0']
08:21:15.263: NVENC supported
08:21:15.288: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
08:21:15.291: No blackmagic support
08:21:15.342: ---------------------------------
08:21:15.342: Loaded Modules:
08:21:15.342: win-wasapi.dll
08:21:15.342: win-mf.dll
08:21:15.342: win-dshow.dll
08:21:15.342: win-decklink.dll
08:21:15.342: win-capture.dll
08:21:15.342: vlc-video.dll
08:21:15.342: text-freetype2.dll
08:21:15.342: rtmp-services.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-x264.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-vst.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-transitions.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-text.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-qsv11.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-outputs.dll
08:21:15.342: obs-filters.dll
08:21:15.343: obs-ffmpeg.dll
08:21:15.343: obs-browser.dll
08:21:15.343: image-source.dll
08:21:15.343: frontend-tools.dll
08:21:15.343: enc-amf.dll
08:21:15.343: coreaudio-encoder.dll
08:21:15.343: ---------------------------------
08:21:15.343: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
08:21:15.346: All scene data cleared
08:21:15.346: ------------------------------------------------
08:21:15.373: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)' initialized
08:21:15.377: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)' initialized
08:21:15.415: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds
08:21:15.510: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
08:21:15.510: executable: chrome.exe
08:21:27.242: gs_image_file_init: Failed to load file ''
08:21:27.246: gs_image_file_init: Failed to load file ''
08:21:27.269: Switched to scene 'Games'
08:21:27.270: ------------------------------------------------
08:21:27.270: Loaded scenes:
08:21:27.270: - scene 'Games':
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Image Mask/Blend' (mask_filter)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'gif slides' (slideshow)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image 7' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image Slide Show' (slideshow)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image 4' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image 2' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'quant' (game_capture)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image 5' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Image 6' (image_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'streamlabs' (browser_source)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Image Mask/Blend' (mask_filter)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'streamlabsfull' (browser_source)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'BrowserSource' (browser_source)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Text (GDI+) 2' (text_gdiplus)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Text (GDI+) 3' (text_gdiplus)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Text (GDI+) 4' (text_gdiplus)
08:21:27.270: - source: 'Text (GDI+)' (text_gdiplus)
08:21:27.270: - filter: 'Scroll' (scroll_filter)
08:21:27.270: - scene 'Scene 2':
08:21:27.270: ------------------------------------------------
 
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