Question / Help Spiking fps, but no dropped frames

[Brian laspe]

Hello all,
These past couple days my cpu/fps would randomly drop/spike throughout my stream but it would not result in dropped frames. On my computer when I am watching my stream to interact with viewers they say it is fine on their end but on my monitor it is constantly struggling to watch.

Now I know the first response is most likely going to be that my ISP may not be able to handle the download to view and upload to produce, but this has just started happening as of a couple days ago when I have been streaming for about 3 months now.

Pasted below are the latest log files....any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I also pasted clip of the best my stream has looked with these recent issues and even the best still has multiple lag spots when I am only streaming at 35 fps at a 1650 bitrate...

https://www.twitch.tv/fat_cloud_gaming/manager/clips
https://gist.github.com/7d1a0bedcea79ec8ccf6591fbfd029cc

 

[Harold]

That log doesn't show a streaming attempt.

 

[Brian laspe]

Do I need to be streaming to upload files? I ended the stream clicked upload latest log and copy/pasted that.

 

[Harold]

"Last" log is from the previous launch of obs.

 

[Brian laspe]

https://gist.github.com/ed0346d0dc5791c9041deb436332c2a7 this is a current log file while the stream is still lagging on my internet browser and the fps is still spiking from 14 to 35 back and forth and so on but I still show 0 dropped frames

 

[Harold]

That doesn't show the end of the stream.

 

[Brian laspe]

https://gist.github.com/10cedf5d7662c3e1d34ace3684158376 I clicked end stream and than "upload current log file"
Was that correct? @Harold

 

[Harold]

It's what you're supposed to do, but it's not writing out the log info. After ending the stream, restart obs and upload last log.

 

[Brian laspe]

https://gist.github.com/e65812c767d5b07b1b139a8b2582ca0a

latest log
@Harold

 

[Harold]

You're overloading your video card.

Could you post a screenshot of the first tab of gpu-z and make sure you're running with a framerate limit close to your display's refresh rate?

 

[Brian laspe]

if you could provide the steps on how to do that, it would be greatly appreciated. And would this be while streaming, or not streaming?

 

[Brian laspe]

this was from my task manager @Harold

 

[Harold]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
First tab, Camera icon, upload to free hosting
Link here.

 

[Wesley Vance]

Hi, I wanted to jump on this thread as I have had FPS drops in OBS as well but only when I play certain games. When streaming PUBG I stay at a steady 60fps but when streaming RB6 Siege or Rocket League, as of last few days, the FPS will drop below 30 randomly. Sometimes it will even out but it's just odd that the FPS drops for no apparent reason. Attached is the log file from my stream today. Thank you for any help you can provide!

 

[Brian laspe]

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/17/11/20/jzw.png

@Harold these are the two links it provided me

 

[Harold]

@Brian laspe looks like you're just straight up overloading the video card then. Cap the FPS in your game to near the refresh rate of the display you're using the game on.

 

[Brian laspe]

@Harold would you be able to provide steps on how to do that

 

[BK-Morpheus]

You could google for a tutorial on how to use Riva Tuner Statistics Server to limit fps or use the even easier way:
Google "Name of the Game you play" + "fps limit".

What I found when searching for "battle grounds fps limit" is:

Go to your User folder (C:\users\Username) to
AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\

Open "GameUserSettings.ini" and set
FrameRateLimit= 60
Or change bUseVSync=False to "True" in the same file.

You're welcome.

 

[Brian laspe]

It worked! Yall are awesome

 

[BK-Morpheus]

I'm glad this worked for you.
I think 80% of those "fps problem" threads in here are related to this issue (no frame limit = high GPU load = not enough GPU resources left for rendering the OBS scene).