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ssbm360

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Hi guys, need some assistance with my settings on OBS. Recently got a new pc, and I'm thinking it should easily stream without a noticeable decrease in playability, but that's exactly what's happening. My games are basically unplayable for me, since I'm used to a high fps.

AsRock Z77 Extreme6
CPU: i5 3570k
GPU: EVGA Reference GTX 680
RAM: 16GB 1600
1920x1080
Windows 8, yes, with Aero being unable to be turned off completely
U: 4mbit, D: 25mbit
Would like to stream at 720p with the highest fps possible for both me and my viewers.

is it the i5? has to be an i7? compatibility with my graphics card? could you guys provide me with some generic settings that would be good for my setup?

Thanks
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
What game are you trying to stream? What OBS settings have you been trying to use? Window capture, monitor capture, or game capture?
 
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ssbm360

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A little L4D2 and probably some other stuff in the future, but I guess you could say more FPS than anything. I think it may be monitor capture, which I just read up should not be used with Aero on. And to clarify, unplayable for me means the game "feels like" below 30 fps, even though it is reporting about 150.
 
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ssbm360

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Also, for other settings, I played around with quality from 10-1, all kinds of cpu presets, fps settings, and resolution output. Nothing seemed to help other than making unplayable slightly less unplayable. Is streaming supposed to feel that way?
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
Ok, well L4D2 should work quite well with the game capture option. Grab the test build from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=283

I'd try 720p @60fps. Your CPU should easily be able to handle it. For encoding, set Quality 10. Don't change encoding preset under Advanced for now. For bitrate, start with 2800 and slowly work your way up from there until you find your limit before things get laggy.

edit: Well, using monitor capture with Aero will definitely make things feel super awful. Give game capture a try, $50 says you barely notice the hit on your system from streaming.
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
Oh, my mistake. I thought that thread had the latest build. Yeah, use that one Niamor linked instead.
 
Niamor

Niamor

Member
I actually don't understand why Jim is not updating the link in his thread.
Maybe test3 is more stable.
 
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ssbm360

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Great, I'll try changing it up, testing it out, and I'll post back with anything.

Thank you both for your help

EDIT: I'll check both out
 
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ssbm360

New Member
I got a crash log :(

**** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: c0000005
Fault address: 5EFF2ADF (c:\users\ilya\downloads\openbroadcaster\plugins\graphicscapture.dll)
OBS version: Open Broadcaster Software v0.445a [pre-release 2]
Windows version: 6.2 (Build 8400)

Crashing thread stack trace:
Stack EIP Arg0 Arg1 Arg2 Arg3 Address
0DF9F5EC 5EFF2ADF 3D50E561 7AF19760 00000000 00000000 graphicscapture.dll!0x5eff2adf
0DF9F628 00E40BF5 76D883DB 00000000 0DF9F9E8 77C09A3F obs.exe!0xe40bf5
0DF9F99C 00E40545 00000000 21DA629E 00000000 00000000 obs.exe!0xe40545
0DF9F9AC 77C09A3F 00E40540 00000000 FFFFFFFF 77C8135A ntdll.dll!0x77c09a3f
0DF9F9F0 77C09A12 00E40540 00000000 00000000 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x77c09a12

A minidump was saved to C:\Users\Ilya\AppData\Roaming\OBS\crashDumps\OBSCrashDump2012-11-20_3.dmp.
Please include this file when posting a crash report.

Window capture worked way better than what I had before though!
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
It never is. Really wish Microsoft would just make DirectX updates part of normal windows update
 
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