So I bought an Intel Arc B580, and now I can't stream properly...

PaiSand

Active Member
Once again, you need to check on the analyzer and follow its directions and recommendations. From that point on you can try to fix other more complex issues. but the issues present and showed on the analyzer needs to be tackle to reduce the clutter.

Start fixin what it's at hand and easy to do. From there on you can have a better perspective on the situation.
Also, PoE 2 is still in development and may have bugs and optimization issues. Don't rule out hardware issues like the GPU itself.
And definitively you need to test it streaming so the log file is complete and more information is present.
 

Shironatsu

New Member
Once again, you need to check on the analyzer and follow its directions and recommendations. From that point on you can try to fix other more complex issues. but the issues present and showed on the analyzer needs to be tackle to reduce the clutter.

Start fixin what it's at hand and easy to do. From there on you can have a better perspective on the situation.
Also, PoE 2 is still in development and may have bugs and optimization issues. Don't rule out hardware issues like the GPU itself.
And definitively you need to test it streaming so the log file is complete and more information is present.
Yes, I get that PoE 2 has a lot of bugs and issues. But the main problem is, the issues were not present when I was using an older, weaker GPU.

And I was testing it while streaming. I always test it while streaming. If you want, you can check the vod of my stream, though I'm sure that will provide little to no information since the issue is not in the logs. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2426622270

Like I sad, I generated the logs while the stream was running, so I'm not sure if that affected what the contents of the logs were. Or if I should close the stream first before generating the logs. While I've used OBS for years, this is the first time I'm encountering these issues and that's why I'm confused and don't know what to do because I never had to. I've always avoided playing games or doing things in my old GPU that I know won't work.

But I've never had streaming or Encoding Overload issues with running PoE2 while streaming, besides of course the game performance itself, which is expected. Even if the GPU was struggling during more intensive fights where the game drops even to 5FPS, the stream feed was still smooth where I can still talk to whoever is watching properly.

Though of course, like I said, it also works wonderfully with other games and even made me play and stream FF7R smoothly.

It's not that I'm not ruling out other hardware issues, but I'm confused and wondering why a GPU marketed as something good for streaming, is having this much of a harder time streaming the same game than a 7-year old GPU with even less VRAM and performance can do. I'm not mad or anything, just confused, and that's why I started asking around, because I don't even know if the shop will accept replacing an item just because of a single feature not working properly, which may be very well be also a recent driver update issue that I can't confirm because there's little to no information about other users of the GPU online, but there are reports of almost the same issue happening to them as well.

Also, I don't even know which log is required to be provided, that's why I provide both the Current and Previous logs, which when I used the Analyzer, shows the Previous log not having any Output Session while the Current log doesn't have that info message. Though I can just test it again anyway.
 

PaiSand

Active Member
A test imply that you start streaming, do as you normally do for no less than 30 seconds and stop streaming. Now upload the log file.
Every time you change a GPU (even if it's same brand and model) you should use again the Auto-configuration Wizard. Specially on new GPUs. Restart OBS and test.
Encoders from different GPUs brands may work different and the needs for one and what works for this one isn't necessary true for the others no matter the VRAM or how new are.

So, fix what's at hand and easy to do. See if this helps. Each small issues may cause bigger issues as one can top on each other making a pile of troubles. Start doing the easy fixes. Then, once this aren't a issues anymore, focus on the bigger issues if are still present.
 

Shironatsu

New Member
A test imply that you start streaming, do as you normally do for no less than 30 seconds and stop streaming. Now upload the log file.
Every time you change a GPU (even if it's same brand and model) you should use again the Auto-configuration Wizard. Specially on new GPUs. Restart OBS and test.
Encoders from different GPUs brands may work different and the needs for one and what works for this one isn't necessary true for the others no matter the VRAM or how new are.

So, fix what's at hand and easy to do. See if this helps. Each small issues may cause bigger issues as one can top on each other making a pile of troubles. Start doing the easy fixes. Then, once this aren't a issues anymore, focus on the bigger issues if are still present.
Just to make sure, do the things like Multiple Capture sources still affect OBS as a whole even if they're just in a single scene that's not Active? I have removed almost all of them from all of my scenes except one that holds my source "presets" to help me remind which capture method works for some of my use cases/specific programs.

If this issue only affects the current Active scene, then I don't have to worry about the warning.
 

Shironatsu

New Member
Hey everyone.

Thanks for trying to troubleshoot this with me. I really wanted to make the B580 work, but unfortunately, I had to make the tough decision to just replace it with a 4060 TI because I only had a day left to get it replaced, and I was nowhere near figuring out if it's a driver issue or my PC/OBS setup issue. It's tough because I had to pay additional for it, but at least I'm expecting Nvidia Drivers and Encoders to be really reliable.

I appreciate all the help, and I did learn quite a bit from this about OBS.
 

prgmitchell

Forum Moderator
Hey everyone.

Thanks for trying to troubleshoot this with me. I really wanted to make the B580 work, but unfortunately, I had to make the tough decision to just replace it with a 4060 TI because I only had a day left to get it replaced, and I was nowhere near figuring out if it's a driver issue or my PC/OBS setup issue. It's tough because I had to pay additional for it, but at least I'm expecting Nvidia Drivers and Encoders to be really reliable.

I appreciate all the help, and I did learn quite a bit from this about OBS.

Not a bad call, I personally haven't seen too many having a great experience with their arc cards in this regard and the NVENC encoder will be much more performant.
 
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