Question / Help Slight lag in CS:GO with OBS up

[Svampsi]

Hi

My computer setup has three minitors. I have csgo in the middle and then I have OBS and the twitch chat open on the left monitor. The reason for this is so I can see who follows/donates me on the stream in real-time.

My problem now is that when OBS is running (I don't even have to have the stream active, just the window open) I can feel a slight lag in CS:GO and it gives me a disadvatage. As soon as I minimize OBS, this is not an issue anymore. Even if it's still running in the background.

Does anyone have a potention fix to this? I need to see OBS while playing, but playing with lag is not an option.

I use OBS studio 32-bit and windows 10. I stream with my graphics card (gtx 970) since my GPU (i5 2500k 3,3GHz) is a bit too weak.

 

[Zzzsosleepy]

I'm getting the same exact issue. My fps drops from around 200 to about 56.

 

[the skinny nerd]

Svampsi,

I only run dual monitors and I have OBS and task manager open on my left monitor while playing half-life 2 to monitor system resources, bit rate of OBS, and the such with no lag.

Do you know what your system resources look like when you are experiencing this latency?

I would also look into what web browser you are using to see if its hogging resources. I know chrome is notorious for eating ram like a fat girl in a cake shop after she got dumped before her wedding.

Without a proper log file I can only speculate. You should try without the web browser and see if that helps

 

[Svampsi]

Thanks for your replies, good to see that i'm not alone.

Sad to tell you though that I tried with a different browser and it's not a difference. I can feel a noticable difference in smoothness when I have OBS minimized. But I really really need it maximized so I can see followers, donations etc when they come in. Any more suggestions to this issue would be most helpful!

Edit: Logfile attached if you wanted. I never started the stream though, only opened OBS and tried some CS:GO deathmatch with OBS both minimized and maximized.


Edit 2: I found a similar thread for the regular OBS from over a year ago. I tried the answer in this thread but it did not resolve my issue.

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/second-monitor-causes-lag-with-obs.23433/