Question / Help Streaming from 2nd Monitor has lower fps

Manosnaruto

New Member
So I just encountered this problem for the first time now. I've been using obs for quite a long time and I kinda know my way around. I stream League and PoE semi-regularly. Anyways onto the issue at hand.

Today I was thinking I would stream some Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning. All is well I setup the new scene add my mumbo jumbo and sit across my 2nd screen which is a TV (not monitor) and switch it to main screen via Nvidia settings so my taskbar and desktop shortcuts etc. are on the TV instead of the monitor. I fire up OBS and the game and go into game. I have the obs and my twitch dashboard open in the monitor to sneak a peek every now and then. After a few moments I see that on the lower right on the "fps meter" it was around 30~ even though my ingame frames were well over 60. (or flat 60 cause of v-sync? whatever) The point is it shouldn't stream lower fps than what I was playing at. I wasn't dropping frames or anything, everything was setup just the way I setup for all other games. Then it occured to me that it's the first time I try to stream something from my "slave" screen. I switch it back to my main monitor and do the same thing but opposite sides. Have the game open in monitor and obs/twitch dashboard in TV and BOOM it works perfectly. Just wanted to point that out. Don't know what the deal is and I don't know if there is a fix. If anyone knows what's up please leave a reply. Thanks.
 
also adding second monitor is asking for a sh*t fit from developing software like this. ..adding unknowns and variables to the party is not cool until the bugs are smashed and polish is applied....more
 

Manosnaruto

New Member
Even without monitor capture it still streamed less than 60 frames. This was just one of the logs. Anyway I just wanted to share this, maybe you can try to recreate the problem I don't know. I will not be using my 2nd monitor to stream now and all is fine.
 

dping

Active Member
Even without monitor capture it still streamed less than 60 frames. This was just one of the logs. Anyway I just wanted to share this, maybe you can try to recreate the problem I don't know. I will not be using my 2nd monitor to stream now and all is fine.
After you've removed monitor capture, don't disable aero from OBS and make sure you use a windows aero enabled theme.
 
side note, not relateed to this yummy sammich i havent made yet...

my option to disable aero is greyed out.. this because im on windows 10 and all fancy asthetics (i used a big word there :D) is not called aero? or it more to it then meets the eye..

i was gonna type bakes the eye, the sh.t am i on?
 

dping

Active Member
side note, not relateed to this yummy sammich i havent made yet...

my option to disable aero is greyed out.. this because im on windows 10 and all fancy asthetics (i used a big word there :D) is not called aero? or it more to it then meets the eye..

i was gonna type bakes the eye, the sh.t am i on?
Aero can only be disabled for windows 7. win8 and 10 is not applicable.
 

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Kittencannon, please make your own thread about your issue. Hijacking Manosnaruto's thread makes debugging the issue more confusing.
 

Manosnaruto

New Member
Ok I still don't know what had happened that day but I cannot recreate this issue. I must admit I did not troubleshoot at all that time and at the moment with or without aero disabled the stream is fine. I guess there was something going on with my computer, sorry to stir up confusion.

Also provided is a log from right now when I tried it.
 

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