Question / Help (Solved) Extremely low FPS and quality with i7-5960x

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Hi OBS forum,

I seem to have a huge problem whenever I try to run OBS on my new computer. What ever I do the quality and the FPS are extremely low, especially considering the results my previous computer could manage to do.

Can anyone please help me out? I am sure there is a good reason behind the low performance I am experiencing.

Yes I have tried:
- Lowering my FPS
- Lowering my Encoding
- Downscaling the resolution
- Uninstalling and re-installing OBS
- Using 32-bit and 64-bit versions
- Deactived Aero

Here is my log file: https://gist.github.com/cbf1d9278738b9d7f977

Any help is appreciated.
 
Please tell me something is clearly wrong when I have a i7-5960x CPU and I can barely achieve 30 FPS when having a single window or monitor capture running.
 
You're trying to run 1080p at 60fps on Faster, at 3500kbps. That's going to be... extremely heavy. And look bad, as 3500kbps isn't anywhere near enough to support that properly. You also don't have a keyint set, which is going to trip up Twitch.

Turn Aero back on. It speeds up Window and Game capture. Only reason to turn Aero off is if you have to use Monitor Capture for some reason under Win7. Even then, you should be using Game Capture on the DWM process instead, at this point.

For now, *for testing purposes*:
-Turn Aero back on
-Set your framerate to 30
-Set resolution to 720p either through the native resolution, or the downscale dropdown.
-Set your keyint to 2 in Advanced
-Set your encoder preset to Veryfast
-Test using something simple, like a Notepad window instead of Chrome (Chrome can misbehave badly in some cases with recent updates, due to how the GPU acceleration has been messed with)
-MONITOR YOUR TEMPS. Also your core throttling. If you're cooking the CPU due to bad paste or something, that'd do it. Make sure, even if you're certain.
-Test-stream for at least 5 minutes to allow things to 'bed in' and get a good sample data size.

All of this is to establish a baseline best-case scenario, to make sure something isn't fundamentally messed up with the OS install. We can turn the settings up again later, once we've confirmed that OBS is working right with your system, and that the problem isn't being caused by the rather steep settings from your logfile.
 
Hi FerretBomb,

Thanks a bunch for all the advice!

I tried downscaling to 1280x720 and set my encoder preset to "VeryFast". This did not fix the problem, since I still only got around 18-23 FPS with very low quality (we are talking below 500kpbs).

However I tried turning Aero back on, and now I can easily run 60 FPS at 3500kbps!

TL;DR For some reason de-activating Aero HEAVILY lowered the quality, FPS and also created over-all stuttering while trying to use the computer.
 
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