Question / Help Stream performance has worsened after hardware upgrade

[sam686]

I'm running an FX8350 + R9 285X
hes running i5-6500K and gtx 1060

So, I recently upgraded from an AMD FX-6300 and a Radeon R7 370 to a i5-6600 and GTX 1060, and while trying to stream with all the exact same encoder settings I used to use, the quality of the stream is now worse than it was before.

Both have a few things in common.
1. Can try Nvidia driver update especially on a newer NVidia GTX 1060 graphics.
2. intel i5 only have 4 CPU threads, so running OBS x264 and newer games at the same time can be a problem. If recording and not streaming, try NVENC encoder.
3. Both have Nvidia 1060. As graphics processing unit (GPU) gets a lot faster, and v-sync disabled, GPU starts to idle, waiting for CPU to work on sending more draw commands to GPU. Some games are multi-threaded so this might really max out the CPU. Enabling V-sync can limit frame rate which can help reduce CPU usage.

Can try increasing OBS priority in advanced settings, and/or reduce priority of running game in task manager details tab.

If you have 2 computers, Have the gaming computer just run games, and get a capture card for the other computer to stream/record.

 

[Beardedbob]

Worth check the drivers as the 1060 should be able to run it with those settings. How does it perform if you just stream or just record not both at the same time? I've seen some issues when the GPU Nvnec has issues when being used for both tasks.

One other thing is at 2500 bitrate you also got some bandwidth errors

12:06:49.018: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 679 (3.9%)

Can you confirm your upload speed

 

[Nevan Nedall]

How does it perform if you just stream or just record not both at the same time? I've seen some issues when the GPU Nvnec has issues when being used for both tasks.

I never do both. That one log was me doing one, stopping, and then the other.

One other thing is at 2500 bitrate you also got some bandwidth errors

12:06:49.018: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 679 (3.9%)

Can you confirm your upload speed

Local: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5996507382
Chicago: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5996512372 (My usual Twitch server)

And for good measure in case my ISP is being sneaky with speedtest.net as some like to be.(Though, the local test is consistent, download speed wise, to my experience with steam downloads.)

Twitch Test:

Not sure why the quality shows as 0 across the board.. that isnt really normal. Usually Chicago is 100%, with new york being in the 90s