Question / Help Stream is lagging, but my gameplay, OBS and task manager are fine?

[jackeryz]

Hiya, attached the log below because I'm not too sure how to read it, but recently I've been having major issues with my stream on twitch.tv lagging for viewers but when I'm actually playing the game, I don't see any of the lag.

To note, my stream before I load up the game is completely fine, but when I tab into the game to start playing it, it becomes a fiesta. Any help would be appreciated :) xoxo hugs and kisses

 

[RytoEX]

Your primary problem seems to be GPU overload. If you have not capped your game frame rate, do that, and then try again. If you are still having problems, please post a new log so that we can see if any different issues have appeared.

 

[jackeryz]

Your primary problem seems to be GPU overload. If you have not capped your game frame rate, do that, and then try again. If you are still having problems, please post a new log so that we can see if any different issues have appeared.

The game I'm trying to stream (Roblox) has a preset frame rate cap of 60, the main confusion I have is, the stream was working just fine a few days ago and now whenever I tab into Roblox, the stream lags like crazy but my gameplay on my screen is fine.

Could the amount of scenes I use have something to do with it ? One of the few differences that has happened now since last streams was I added a few more scenes for funny gags.

Another thing that changed was my brother is in my house again, could he be causing this unintentionally by more internet being used at the same time?

 

[RytoEX]

More scenes can definitely cause extra resource usage and system load. Are your monitors the same refresh rate? Are they high refresh rate (higher than 60Hz)? Have you tried to fully uninstall and reinstall your graphics drivers, with or without DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller)?

More information on DDU can be found here and here.

 

[jackeryz]

More scenes can definitely cause extra resource usage and system load. Are your monitors the same refresh rate? Are they high refresh rate (higher than 60Hz)? Have you tried to fully uninstall and reinstall your graphics drivers, with or without DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller)?

More information on DDU can be found here and here.

Is there a way to check if that is so (in regards to monitors) ? I'm not too smart on the technological side of monitors, I did recently get a second one to have dual monitors and had some FPS issue there but I managed to fix that by having OBS and my gameplay on the same monitor.

I think I finally figured my issue out though, I always have a looping video on the background of my main gameplay scene which acts as an 'intermission' screen for when I'm switching games and whatnot; after hiding that (by clicking the eye) my stream seems perfectly fine now. Although I'm mostly confused as to why this is only a recent occurrence ? I've streamed ages before with it like this with no issue.

 

[RytoEX]

You can check your display refresh rate in Windows advanced display settings (Windows Settings > System > Display > Advanced display settings) or in your GPU's control panel app (NVIDIA Control Panel).

If a looping video is causing this behavior, I'd need to have a lot more info (and probably the file itself) to really look into it further. What kind of video is it? How long is it? How big is it? What is the video's frame rate? Does it have an alpha channel (transparency)? What kind of source are you using to play it?

If it only started happening after you updated OBS, Windows, a graphics driver, or some software (like VLC, if this is a VLC source), then it's possible one of those things changed a behavior related to video playback, but it's difficult to tell.