Question / Help Stream playback feels lower than 60fps {SOLVED}

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CalebPatrikStar

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I recently got a 144hz monitor and decided to try out streaming again. When i'm streaming I put OBS onto my other monitor and I see that i get a stable 60FPS with no frames drops and the green box is green. The video on top is really choppy but when i go check the stream playback its not as choppy but definitely feels lower than 60FPS. I feel as if my settings are good because I get no frame rate issues in-game. Heres a video of the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/290393368

Specs:
GPU: GTX 960 4GB
CPU: i7 7700k 4.2Ghz
Ram: 16GB corsair ddr4

If there's anything else that's needed please tell me and I can add it. Thanks in Advanced.
 
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Update to the latest version of OBS and post a new log with a streaming or recording session, if you're still having issues.
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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Volfield said:
Update to the latest version of OBS and post a new log with a streaming or recording session, if you're still having issues.
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That actually fixed it for the most part. I had the latestversion and it did that so I went to a version lower and now I reinstalled the latest and it works fine. There are a few choppy "frames" but that might be on twitches part. Thanks

**EDIT** the preview is still extremely choppy

Here's a log just in case something is wrong.
 
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Watched the video, I don't see any issues with it on my monitor that has higher refresh rate.

72FPS is an awkward number that might cause some minor issues with smoothness, since it doesn't divide evenly with the most common refresh rates (30/60Hz) on viewer devices. It's a complaint I have received when streaming as well, that something was "off".

Whether this is placebo or not, I don't know but the minor complaints stopped when I switched to 60FPS capture.
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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Volfield said:
Watched the video, I don't see any issues with it on my monitor that has higher refresh rate.

72FPS is an awkward number that might cause some minor issues with smoothness, since it doesn't divide evenly with the most common refresh rates (30/60Hz) on viewer devices. It's a complaint I have received when streaming as well, that something was "off".

Whether this is placebo or not, I don't know but the minor complaints stopped when I switched to 60FPS capture.
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Thanks for the reply, its scarce I've noticed on these forums.

I normally have it at 60FPS but I thought maybe it'd be smoother if i divided 144 / 2. I've seen many other streams and its so smooth then i go on mine and its garbage. The preview is really bad too. I've asked other streamers if their preview is choppy and they say it's fine.
 
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CalebPatrikStar said:
Thanks for the reply, its scarce I've noticed on these forums.

I normally have it at 60FPS but I thought maybe it'd be smoother if i divided 144 / 2. I've seen many other streams and its so smooth then i go on mine and its garbage. The preview is really bad too. I've asked other streamers if their preview is choppy and they say it's fine.
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Do you run only a single monitor at 144Hz?
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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Volfield said:
Do you run only a single monitor at 144Hz?
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I run two monitors. Gaming monitor is 144hz and the monitor where I run OBS is 60hz

**EDIT** I downloaded the video off of twitch and went to details and it said the FPS was 59.83. I'm not sure if that's because it's from twitch or not
 
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There's a known problem with multi monitor systems with different refresh rates. One workaround is to set the faster monitors to a refresh rate that is a multiple of the slowest monitors.

In your case, cap your primary monitor at 120Hz and secondary monitor at 60Hz. If your ingame FPS does stay steady at 120+ FPS, then cap it at 120FPS or turn on VSYNC.
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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Volfield said:
There's a known problem with multi monitor systems with different refresh rates. One workaround is to set the faster monitors to a refresh rate that is a multiple of the slowest monitors.

In your case, cap your primary monitor at 120Hz and secondary monitor at 60Hz. If your ingame FPS does stay steady at 120+ FPS, then cap it at 120FPS or turn on VSYNC.
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From what I can see it didn't make a difference: https://hastebin.com/akivuyuwil
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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I just did a test with Nvidia Shadowplay and the video is the same, if not worse. I'm starting to think it's a computer problem not a software problem. Is it possibly because I have dual monitor?? Ones connected to DVI and the other HDMI
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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I found a fix to the problem, I disconnected my second monitor (the 60hz one) and started the stream up again. It still felt relatively choppy so I put the FPS (in OBS) to 72 (half of my refresh rate) and low and behold it worked.

Is there any reason it does this other than different refresh rates? I'd really like to be able to see OBS while I stream.
 
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I stream with dual monitors as well and the only way to avoid every issue I have found was my early suggestion and this issue affects both AMD and NVIDIA users. if any of your settings aren't synchronized with each other, issues show up like stuttering, spotty smoothness and so on.
 
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CalebPatrikStar

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Volfield said:
I stream with dual monitors as well and the only way to avoid every issue I have found was my early suggestion and this issue affects both AMD and NVIDIA users. if any of your settings aren't synchronized with each other, issues show up like stuttering, spotty smoothness and so on.
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That's too bad. I've customized my computer so much to my liking that I don't know how to synchronize my settings. I'll just have to wait until I get a dual PC setup and just deal with what I have now.

Thanks for all your help, it is really appreciated.
 
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