Rendering and encoding lag with better hardware than I had before when all was good...

[tensai]

Hi!

So I used to stream with the same settings I've had for 3 years without any encoding or render lag: x264, 720p60fps, lanczos, preset: medium, 6000 bits, using a 3900x and a gtx 1070, 32 gb ram. Actually 99 out of 100 logs would show 0 lagged frames on both counts.

Recently I switched to an rtx 4080 with the cpu still 3900x. I've noticed logs are telling me I'm experiencing lagged frames even when I'm streaming a game like apex legends with game settings at 1080p all graphical settings low as usual. How could this happen with a superior videocard and gpu load never even close to maxxing out according to HWINFO whilst only 4GB vram of the available 16GB vram was in use?

I have included two logs at 1080p60fps output setting of which one where I switched to nvenc h.264 to see if things would change if I used the gpu to stream. Hopefully someone knows what's wrong. I have also had lagged frames reported in logs where I used the old 720p60fps output setting, but the logs were too old so have been auto-deleted I guess.

Thanks.

 

[JohnPee]

Looking at the log of 16th Feb

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

There are some clues about how to address some of the issues you have.

 

[tensai]

Looking at the log of 16th Feb

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

There are some clues about how to address some of the issues you have.

None of these has fixed the render lag problem. The only thing that has changed since when I was problem free was the update to a 4080 and the update of obs.

 

[tensai]

So I wanted to see if tabbing in and out of apex, which I do alot during downtime in lobby/queueing up would cause those lost frames render lag. And yep, just starting obs-> capturing apex -> tab out and back in -> stop stream -> render lag frame loss according to log.

Still need to test where I don't tab out ever in a session and see if that was the only problem or render lag happens in game as well.