Question / Help Several Issues With OBS Capture

[Khaos Strife]

Hello all!

First off I want to say that I have been using OBS for a few years now so I do have some pretty good understanding of how the software works however, I am no where near an expert on it which is what brings me here today.

Currently I am having three major issues.

Issue number one is with my Blue Snowball Microphone. It works fine with OBS as long as I am not using Team Speak at the same time. As soon as they are both running the mic disconnects and reconnects within the hardware manager in windows about ever 3 seconds rendering the mic useless. This dose not happen with any other microphone I connect to the system, this is only with my Blue Microphone and I suspect it is a Windows 10 quark. (I will list my full system specs at the end)

Issue number two is with video capture with some games. The issue being that no matter what settings I use (higher quality over all or lower quality, difference codecs, etc) I get horrendous frame-rates. Case and point: Call of Duty Black Ops III, while recording/streaming I get maybe 43 FPS, when I am not recording/streaming I am getting over 150 FPS. I have noticed it as well on games like Titanfall and Deadspace 3. I have also noticed that any Origin based games lose the ability to use the Origin overlay when OBS is running which removes the ability to do anything on line (sounds like a overlay conflict which may be related to the crappy framerates).

Now for the issue number three, I recently picked up a Black Magic Intensity Shuttle which I finally got a chance to toy around with last night. After 5 hours I could not get it to work right. So far all I have been able to get to come up in OBS is audio that is very broken and has a 2 second delay on it. I get no video at all with the exception of an neon red box where the video output is suppose to be in OBS. I can get video through the Black Magic Recording software and audio as well so I know the device is working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Full System Specs:

Motherboard - ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition X79
CPU - Intel i7 3960X (Stock Clocks)
RAM - 64 GB DDR3 CL8 1866MHz (Underclocked from 2400MHz CL10)
SSD - 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA 6
HDD - 5TB Toshiba 128 MB Cache 7200 RPM SATA 6
GPU - 2x EVGA TITAN X (Stock Clocks)
Mic - Blue Snowball
Camera - Logitech C920 HD
Monitor 1 - ASUS ROG SWIFT GSYNC
Monitor 2 - LG IPS 236 V

 

[dping]

Hello all!

First off I want to say that I have been using OBS for a few years now so I do have some pretty good understanding of how the software works however, I am no where near an expert on it which is what brings me here today.

Currently I am having three major issues.

Issue number one is with my Blue Snowball Microphone. It works fine with OBS as long as I am not using Team Speak at the same time. As soon as they are both running the mic disconnects and reconnects within the hardware manager in windows about ever 3 seconds rendering the mic useless. This dose not happen with any other microphone I connect to the system, this is only with my Blue Microphone and I suspect it is a Windows 10 quark. (I will list my full system specs at the end)

Issue number two is with video capture with some games. The issue being that no matter what settings I use (higher quality over all or lower quality, difference codecs, etc) I get horrendous frame-rates. Case and point: Call of Duty Black Ops III, while recording/streaming I get maybe 43 FPS, when I am not recording/streaming I am getting over 150 FPS. I have noticed it as well on games like Titanfall and Deadspace 3. I have also noticed that any Origin based games lose the ability to use the Origin overlay when OBS is running which removes the ability to do anything on line (sounds like a overlay conflict which may be related to the crappy framerates).

Now for the issue number three, I recently picked up a Black Magic Intensity Shuttle which I finally got a chance to toy around with last night. After 5 hours I could not get it to work right. So far all I have been able to get to come up in OBS is audio that is very broken and has a 2 second delay on it. I get no video at all with the exception of an neon red box where the video output is suppose to be in OBS. I can get video through the Black Magic Recording software and audio as well so I know the device is working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Full System Specs:

Motherboard - ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition X79
CPU - Intel i7 3960X (Stock Clocks)
RAM - 64 GB DDR3 CL8 1866MHz (Underclocked from 2400MHz CL10)
SSD - 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA 6
HDD - 5TB Toshiba 128 MB Cache 7200 RPM SATA 6
GPU - 2x EVGA TITAN X (Stock Clocks)
Mic - Blue Snowball
Camera - Logitech C920 HD
Monitor 1 - ASUS ROG SWIFT GSYNC
Monitor 2 - LG IPS 236 V

post your logfile but just by looking this issue could be 1. Disable SLI. only OBS MP works decently with multi GPU. this is due to an added fix in the game capture properties called "multi gpu" or something.

Second, the Black Magic Intensity Shuttle is made for use witha dedicated streaming PC not a single PC. something still has to encode the stream. the capture card just captures it from a gaming PC to be used on a streaming PC.

 

[Khaos Strife]

post your logfile but just by looking this issue could be 1. Disable SLI. only OBS MP works decently with multi GPU. this is due to an added fix in the game capture properties called "multi gpu" or something.

Second, the Black Magic Intensity Shuttle is made for use witha dedicated streaming PC not a single PC. something still has to encode the stream. the capture card just captures it from a gaming PC to be used on a streaming PC.

Where would I find this OBS MP? I will recreate the issue with the mic tonight if I get two seconds and put up the log file.

As for the BM device, are you sure about the encoding? The device is specifically designed for capture and streaming. Like I said, with the BM suite software I can get it to work but that is not a good option for what I am trying to do. The device is suppose to work with OBS, XSplit, and pretty much any other piece of software that supports a video capture device. It's a config issue, that much I do know because I have found some people that have gotten to work but their setups were different (different OS for example). I will see about posting the log file that might contain the information about this which might make this easier to nail down.

 

[dping]

https://obsproject.com/download#mp

Also, you might try using VAC or a virtual cable to either connect your mic to OBS then use the normal snowball to use with team speak.

VAC creates channels to virtually create different audio channels to be separated. This probably isn't a perminant fix but an answer. you are the first person I've heard this issue with.

 

[Khaos Strife]

Thanks, I might give VAC a go on that. I can tell you it is something about my setup because I have never had this issue on any of my previous builds nor does anyone else I know. If I had to guess it would have something do with Windows 10 being a clown.