Hello all,
After reading through a variety of posts on related issues, I've decided it best to start a new one.
Having used OBS on unchanging settings for may months, I am suddenly seeing that when streaming, OBS works fine for an indeterminate amount of time (maybe 5 minutes, maybe an hour) before it starts maxing GPU and dropping frames due to encoding lag. It reports encoder overload at this time; game performance and stream frames tank in accordance.
Example log file.
If I continue streaming, this begins to occur more and more frequently. It also seems to occur more quickly if I stream again without rebooting.
I have walked through and tested after every step listed at General Performance And Encoding Issues and GPU Overload Issues, with no impact. Note, in my example log you will see I do not have Game Mode enabled, and am not running as an admin. I have included these in thorough troubleshooting attempts and have ruled them out as related.
I only encounter the issue when streaming - not when OBS is idle, nor when it is only recording. Recording while streaming, or opting not to, doesn't have a noticeable impact.
As noted above, I had not changed my original settings, which were working for upwards of a year. (I believe the example log may in fact use settings that I found recommended by NVIDIA while going through this process; I've been testing both the original and new profiles with identical results.)
This was not occurring during my Saturday morning stream, but was present during my stream yesterday evening (Tuesday). The following major events occurred between those two times:
- I blindly installed a new "game ready" driver (465.89) as prompted by GeForce Experience. Yes, this was probably a mistake.
- I switched to a faster Internet plan, which increased my upload from 3-5 Mbps, to 10-12 Mbps.
I have since tried reverting to, and reinstalling, older versions of the driver - including attempts using the latest version of DDU to ensure a full cleanup is being performed. I am currently on driver version 461.72, which I believe (due to details of an available system restore point) was the previously installed version.
I have performed a system restore to Monday, which did not address the issue, though it did give my game capture an annoying flicker on stream. I was able to address the flicker by reinstalling the driver after the restore.
At one point there was an older restore point available - 3/22 - but I appear to have clobbered this with restore points created by DDU. Oops.
I also ruled out the (remote) possibility that this was due to mismatched frequencies among audio sources leading to drift and resulting in extra CPU usage, by changing all audio source frequencies to 48k in Windows device settings.
In some of the logs I've noticed a message pertaining to a memory leak, but this seems unlikely to be responsible as the example log has no such mention and the session suffered from the issue.
At this point I have been debugging the issue with no progress for over 24 hours. Any suggestions or insight whatsoever that any of you can provide would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
After reading through a variety of posts on related issues, I've decided it best to start a new one.
Having used OBS on unchanging settings for may months, I am suddenly seeing that when streaming, OBS works fine for an indeterminate amount of time (maybe 5 minutes, maybe an hour) before it starts maxing GPU and dropping frames due to encoding lag. It reports encoder overload at this time; game performance and stream frames tank in accordance.
Example log file.
If I continue streaming, this begins to occur more and more frequently. It also seems to occur more quickly if I stream again without rebooting.
I have walked through and tested after every step listed at General Performance And Encoding Issues and GPU Overload Issues, with no impact. Note, in my example log you will see I do not have Game Mode enabled, and am not running as an admin. I have included these in thorough troubleshooting attempts and have ruled them out as related.
I only encounter the issue when streaming - not when OBS is idle, nor when it is only recording. Recording while streaming, or opting not to, doesn't have a noticeable impact.
As noted above, I had not changed my original settings, which were working for upwards of a year. (I believe the example log may in fact use settings that I found recommended by NVIDIA while going through this process; I've been testing both the original and new profiles with identical results.)
This was not occurring during my Saturday morning stream, but was present during my stream yesterday evening (Tuesday). The following major events occurred between those two times:
- I blindly installed a new "game ready" driver (465.89) as prompted by GeForce Experience. Yes, this was probably a mistake.
- I switched to a faster Internet plan, which increased my upload from 3-5 Mbps, to 10-12 Mbps.
I have since tried reverting to, and reinstalling, older versions of the driver - including attempts using the latest version of DDU to ensure a full cleanup is being performed. I am currently on driver version 461.72, which I believe (due to details of an available system restore point) was the previously installed version.
I have performed a system restore to Monday, which did not address the issue, though it did give my game capture an annoying flicker on stream. I was able to address the flicker by reinstalling the driver after the restore.
At one point there was an older restore point available - 3/22 - but I appear to have clobbered this with restore points created by DDU. Oops.
I also ruled out the (remote) possibility that this was due to mismatched frequencies among audio sources leading to drift and resulting in extra CPU usage, by changing all audio source frequencies to 48k in Windows device settings.
In some of the logs I've noticed a message pertaining to a memory leak, but this seems unlikely to be responsible as the example log has no such mention and the session suffered from the issue.
At this point I have been debugging the issue with no progress for over 24 hours. Any suggestions or insight whatsoever that any of you can provide would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading.