Question / Help stream FPS drop (not in game)

[inverses]

Currently having some issues regarding streaming -- seems like i'm getting FPS drops on the stream; however my in-game FPS is completely fine.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3758024936.png

http://www.twitch.tv/versecity/b/568258702

I believe about 30% of the frames are being dropped for some reason.

If it IS due to my GPU -- would a 770 GTX suffice?

Also -- I had aero enabled to test it out real quick with it. It's really the same with/without it.

 

[Lain]

Your GPU is severely underpowered. the 2xx series have been known to have issues with OBS. 5xx nvidias and above usually perform without issue, but the 4xx and especially the 2xx and below have issues compositing. 2xx is particularly bad for some reasno. It's right there in the log on the profiler, it's getting stalled when trying to transfer the composite from GPU to RAM. In future versions we may have this alleviated significantly but right now that video card just does not really cut it for the current version.

Even though we will reduce the issue in future versions I would recommend upgrading regardless. Just my opinion though.

 

[inverses]

Thanks for the information Jim. I thought so too that it would probably be the GPU -- just wanted a confirmation from one of the developers before making a purchase for a 7xx gpu. I'll let you know if I have any more problems.

Forgot to mention: Is there a reason why it fails to hook onto the GTX 295? I'm guessing it's what you mentioned with the compatibility issues on 2xx cards or 4xx cards.

15:21:37: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 (Adapter 1)...
15:21:38: D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain1: Failed on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295: 0x80004002. Trying compatibility mode

 

[Lain]

It just means your adapter doesn't fully support D3D10 capabilities, and it had to revert to a D3D9 compatibility mode.