I built a new streaming rig a few weeks ago, and it worked flawlessly until last week. I suspect the issue is a diver update, as AMD put out two driver updates since I started getting encoding overload issues in OBS. The rig is an AMD 2700x overclocked to 4.3GHz, 16GB of DDR4 @ 3466MHz, a Radeon 7 overclocked to 2025MHz GPU/1200MHz memory/1154mV. Everything is running on water on an Asus x470 Pro. I have a 560mm rad keeping everything cool; GPU typically runs in the mid 70s °C junction temp/mid 40°C edge temp (the temp every other GPU reads besides an R7), and the CPU is typically in the low 40°C, sometimes spiking into the low 50°C. Typical workload is <10% CPU with EVERYTHING running on my computer, 1% or less in OBS. GPU workload is typically 70%-99% depending on the game, but I still get encoding overload errors even on graphically unintensive games that don't put the GPU past 25% load. I do have 3 monitors, 2 1080p and 1 4k, all run @ 60Hz. I've tried limiting in game frame rates, enabling and disabling Vsync, enabling and disabling freesync, and just about every permutation of settings I could find in these forums to resolve the issue. I highly doubt it's a system issue, since everything worked fine until last week, and it's a moderately beefy system.
Here's where it gets kind of odd. I saw others with this symptom, but didn't find a fix besides getting a better system, which I'm almost positive isn't the case. When I'm not focused on the game, OBS is fine at a solid 60FPS <1% CPU usage. But when I click on the game and start playing, OBS gets errors, sometimes immediately, sometimes later on. It seems to have the most encoding issues/framerate drop during cutscenese, but not always.
I can use xsplit and radeon ReLive just fine without issue, only having problems with OBS since last week when I went from Adrenaline 19.4.1 to 19.4.2 and then to 19.4.3 (which is the current driver). I've been streaming with ReLive until I can resolve the OBS issue, but I prefer OBS because it has so much more power than ReLive. Another oddity I've noticed, is that I tend to get about a 3 second delay on Twitch using ReLive, but about a 4-5 second delay using OBS. I'm honestly surprised, cuz ReLive used to be terrible.
Here's the link for a log I did in DMC 5 that included cutscenes and game play: https://obsproject.com/logs/n0ZJ0r2g4FGDTNZq.
Here's where it gets kind of odd. I saw others with this symptom, but didn't find a fix besides getting a better system, which I'm almost positive isn't the case. When I'm not focused on the game, OBS is fine at a solid 60FPS <1% CPU usage. But when I click on the game and start playing, OBS gets errors, sometimes immediately, sometimes later on. It seems to have the most encoding issues/framerate drop during cutscenese, but not always.
I can use xsplit and radeon ReLive just fine without issue, only having problems with OBS since last week when I went from Adrenaline 19.4.1 to 19.4.2 and then to 19.4.3 (which is the current driver). I've been streaming with ReLive until I can resolve the OBS issue, but I prefer OBS because it has so much more power than ReLive. Another oddity I've noticed, is that I tend to get about a 3 second delay on Twitch using ReLive, but about a 4-5 second delay using OBS. I'm honestly surprised, cuz ReLive used to be terrible.
Here's the link for a log I did in DMC 5 that included cutscenes and game play: https://obsproject.com/logs/n0ZJ0r2g4FGDTNZq.