Question / Help Random single frame freeze every few seconds or minutes

[Raphael Aguilar]

When I play overwatch everything is perfect, no lag or anything, the recording quality and fps has no issues however when I watch it, every few minutes or seconds theres a single frame freeze for like 1 mili second, its very noticeable. then everything comes back to normal, then a few seconds or minutes after that it happens again. I really need this resolved.

 

[BornDownUnder]

It sounds like micro-stutter that you are likely experiencing during recording. Your system specs would greatly help in further diagnosis.

Can you let me know if what you are experiencing is similar to what is in this YouTube upload of mine:

https://youtu.be/7YxFSdJXm6w

For me it is due to my CPU being an older gen. i5 2500 non-k and my GPU being a r9 290x, that and Battlefield 4 being a resource hungry game whilst recording via OBS.

To note: I do not get the micro-stutter issue whilst recording via AMD ReLive software integrated with the Crimson drivers, just I use OBS Studio to record as ReLive has no multiple/customizable hotkeys for audio mic input at present.

 

[Geruhn]

I looked far and wide for a solution and I might've found it yesterday night:
Too many game captures. I had a scene full with game captures (50+) which I embedded into another scene where I got all my overlays sorted. Before deleting every game capture (I deleted the scene and started a new one with only one game capture) I had micro lags every ~2 seconds but never saw any spikes in my task manager. After deleting it my stream is smooth again.

Before I deleted that scene I also had micro lags even without using that scene, like when I was streaming my "just chatting" scene.
I hope this helps.

Hardware:
CPU: Intel i7-4770 @ 3.4GHz Quadcore (Haswell)
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-K, Sockel 1150, ATX, Z87
Grafikkarte: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
RAM: 32 GB DDR3-1600 (4x8GB, PC3-12800), Dual Channel
OS: Windows 10 Professional

 

[sneaky4oe]

Just faced such issue myself. Made a new collection of scenes and the issue was gone. Apparently it's one of the sources (which previously worked fine.... hm....)
Or it's the last streamdeck update. Looks like it broke OBS too. Maybe new scene collection breaks connection and thus fixes OBS?

... or it was voicemeter virtual devices not getting signal from main pc which caused such behavior...