Hello everyone. This has been an ongoing issue that I'v been ignoring for quite some time, but my stream becomes very pixelated when encountering high stress, high cpu usage moments. This only occurs when I am PC gaming and streaming, as my computer is (obviously) using a lot of cpu. Here is a log to my most recent stream:
https://gist.github.com/fd4a2424b43015105883b97ef08fd585
If you take a look at my specs, I'm fairly confident that they are good enough to stream successfully. I've tweaked my settings multiple times to try different scenarios, and followed some advice from those in the community chat. No matter what I've tried, the issue isn't solved. I've decided to address this more recently since my stream is growing a bit, and a few viewers have pointed the issue out to me.
I'm wondering if anyone knows exactly what causes this issue, and if so, what's the fix? Knowing how this streaming stuff works, I know the solution is unfortunately never that simple. I've tried to lower bit rate, lower FPS, adjust different settings, and still no fix. If anyone has a solution, I'd be very appreciative to hear it. For reference, I'm running H1Z1 on medium settings (when I change to low settings, the cpu usage doesn't seem to go down much at all), and during those high stress moments, it's running at about 55% cpu usage. OBS runs about 25%, and there are times where my cpu usage in total gets up to 90%. Though I don't really ever see an encoding failure message unless I raise the cpu preset usage past "very fast". Thanks in advance to all, and if you need any more information from me, post below and I'd be happy to get it for you.
https://gist.github.com/fd4a2424b43015105883b97ef08fd585
If you take a look at my specs, I'm fairly confident that they are good enough to stream successfully. I've tweaked my settings multiple times to try different scenarios, and followed some advice from those in the community chat. No matter what I've tried, the issue isn't solved. I've decided to address this more recently since my stream is growing a bit, and a few viewers have pointed the issue out to me.
I'm wondering if anyone knows exactly what causes this issue, and if so, what's the fix? Knowing how this streaming stuff works, I know the solution is unfortunately never that simple. I've tried to lower bit rate, lower FPS, adjust different settings, and still no fix. If anyone has a solution, I'd be very appreciative to hear it. For reference, I'm running H1Z1 on medium settings (when I change to low settings, the cpu usage doesn't seem to go down much at all), and during those high stress moments, it's running at about 55% cpu usage. OBS runs about 25%, and there are times where my cpu usage in total gets up to 90%. Though I don't really ever see an encoding failure message unless I raise the cpu preset usage past "very fast". Thanks in advance to all, and if you need any more information from me, post below and I'd be happy to get it for you.