Question / Help Sudden Encoding Overload issue. (Good PC Specs)

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xkurbyxx

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Suddenly, I am getting an 'Encoding Overload! Consider lowering your presets or try a different encoder.' error from OBS which I have never encountered before. I have not changed any settings, they have all stayed the same. I have been able to stream over a year with these settings without problems and now all of a sudden this is happening. My PC specs are fine for the games I am playing (OverWatch, League of Legends, FFXIV, WoW, etc.)

INTEL i7 3770K 3.50GHZ
16 GB Ram
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660
Windows 10 10 x64 bit

Bitrate: 3000
Base Resolution: 1440x900 per my monitors highest
Downscaled Output Resolution: 1280x720
Downscale Filter: Bilinear FPS: 30

Encoder: x264
Rate Control: CBR
Keyframe: 0 (I also tried 2, no difference)
CPU Preset: Veryfast (not too keen on lowering this due to quality loss, also, its been fine at veryfast until now, so...)

Internet Down Speed: 100mbps Internet Up Spead: 200mbps

I also did update OBS Studio to 18.0.2 with no positive result, it still gives me the error


If anyone could help me with this that would be awesome! Ive been at this for 4 days trying different things and I just wanna rip my hair out. Thank you!

OBS Studio 18.0.2 Log:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f88026cba5afe44833bfc8262a070642
 
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Bmber

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Could you disable Game Mode in windows 10 if it's not done yet. Also, as per previous forum post, Some AV have trouble recently with new windows 10 update and creating fps drop or similar issue.

You could also try to set a compatibility mode in you game.
Ex:
Go in your steam folder steamapps/common/csgo.
right-click on csgo.exe - properties - compatibility - Check Disable Fullscreen optimisation. This is a new feature and it create trouble at the moment. (This allowed me to stream at 60fps again)

You could do it with every game.
 
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xkurbyxx

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I turned off Windows 10 Game Mode (didnt even know that existed). I disabled my Avast! AV and ran OverWatch on compatablitly mode with Windows 7. Its still giving me an encoding overload.....
 
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xkurbyxx

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So far, that did the trick! Thank you! However, I only tested that in a Recording ONLY. I will be testing it by streaming a little later on and will post the end result. Thanks again!
 
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Luke77

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I could finally fix this annoying issue. Well, it worked for me.
I was having the same issue, i used to do my recordings just fine with NVENC NEW, but suddenlly i started to get overloaded warnings but my CPU was just 25/30% of usage, also the GPU was around 60/70% of usage, it wans't making any sense to me. The video that i had just recorded looking like much more a slideshow than a video, but the stream was working perfecly. I'd been through a week facing that issue.
So, here is the thing. I didn't know what to do anymore because i had read all of the forums that i could find on google but for a miracle I dicided to check out the CCleaner, it showed a update of NVIDIA USB Type-c Port Policy Controller, then I say "Well, why not?" and I let it updated it. And guess what... Done... I have no issues ever since...
Such a coincidence huh.
I'm not native english speaker, so i hope you guys can understand what i tried to say. I hope it can help someone.

Specs
NVidia RTX 2060 Super
Asus Rog Z-390 Strix
i9 9900k 3.6Ghz
16Gb HyperX 3200Mhz 2x8
 
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Luke77

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Well, nevermind. I've got the issue back...

But I've done one more thing and it seems to be working so far.
Go to Obs studio > Advanced > Sources, and uncheck the box which says "Enable Browser Source Hardware Acceleration"

I did that, and didn't get the error, when i checked it back, I got the error, so I unckecked again and it seems to be working so far. But let see.
 
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