Question / Help Two PC Streaming Setup Issues

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Wasn't sure where to put this since I'm not sure it's an OSB issue per say. So. I'm trying to stream Rainbow Six Siege (which uses a lot of CPU on my gaming pc), tried offloading the recording and streaming to my desktop which is much beefier cpu wise (Ryzen 1800x) not to mention all kinds of storage. My gaming PC has the better monitor which has gsync and better gpu but the cpu can't take the encoding while streaming.

If I set through NDI output I get a Encoding Overloaded error every time, well basically unless I set the canvas size to 1080P on stream PC and output 720P from gaming rig.. OBS when setup properly uses about 30% cpu with NDI enabled at full res and combined with the intel bug on Siege I'm thinking it's too much. Any ideras? Can't afford a capture card.

Rig Details
Stream PC
Liquid Cooled AMD Ryzen 1800X
GTX 780 Classified

Gaming PC
Intel i7 7820hk
GTX 1080
120hz Gsync Monitor
 
A Capture card is always recommended for streaming with two pc's.
Thats why i didn't stream with 2 pc's even when i have the possibility to do so.

You could switch your gaming pc to be the streaming pc.
But i don't think your gonna like the fps on a GTX 780 while your playing Rainbow Six Siege.
And i'm sure you have DDR3 in your Stream PC and DDR4 in your Gaming PC.

You could use the gaming pc to be the streaming pc and the gaming pc in one.
That works fine for me.

Rainbow six is a real CPU eater so try to optimize the game so it uses less of your cpu for encoding.

Let me know if one of these things worked.
 
Thought I had it fixed last night but nope. Been using NVENC @ 80k in the mean time. Latest log from just a few minutes ago.
https://obsproject.com/logs/b5beX77Ps3I0FmdB
That is from the gaming pc that is using NDI to output to the stream PC.
https://obsproject.com/logs/_J53BjLOfBvD4cy2
That is from stream/encode PC

I've tried several things from limiting R6 to four threads via affinity, limiting the FPS to 60 (I get 200+ without a limit) and a few others. The combo of affinity and FPS limit looked like it was going to work but nope.
 
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All those recording attempts show you're using the slow cpu preset. Have you tried lowering that to medium or fast? slow is an absolute killer for cycles.
 
Yes tried even on ultrafast which killed me to even try. Shouldn't have been using much of the gaming pc's cpu since I was using NDI out to put it on stream pc for encode.
 
The NDI plugin does not care what CPU preset you have selected.

According to the log, you're overloading the x264 encoder. Use faster, fast or veryfast and upload a log from that.
 
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