Question / Help Upgrading made my stream slower?

Redin

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So I upgraded my motherboard and my cpu from a AMD 8350 to a i5-4690 and now while i'm streaming it lags and just freezes or its disgusting quality. Any help?
 

Redin

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I was messing around with the bit rate but I normally stream on just 4500 and it is pixely sometimes but for the most part okay and I upgraded because I wanted a nice looking smooth stream.
 

Harold

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4500 is into terms of service violation range. Not to mention the buffering hell that viewers will end up in.
 

alpinlol

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1080p30 + cpu based game engine on an i5 is really hard i'd suggest not going anywhere over 720p30 with a 2k-2.5k bitrate

when you are talking about freezes or laggs be more specific
 

Redin

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Basically the stream is a slide show on time you see a picture of something then it skips forwards then goes fine again and then does it again. Does that make sense lol?
 

Cryonic

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That makes sense. Your CPU is crapping out under load (btw the upgrade didnt gave you anything in terms of raw encoding power, since the 8350 is actually halfway decent at encoding and not really slower than i5 4690. Slight edge for the FX CPU here, it can be overclocked and will be even faster than the i5. In games the i5 is better.

If you dont see the buffering circle in the player, then it is your videofeed. To tell you more, we need a fresh log from OBS.
 

alpinlol

Active Member
fx8350 and everything later than the i5 3570 is about equal when it comes to "encoding" power so theres not really any gain in your case but now you have the option to use qsv which is a really nice have to and advantage, since its taking the load off the cpu and lets the igpu encode it which is pretty much comparable to x264 on veryfast preset.

1080p still needs too mich bitrate for rats like us without being a twitch partner ;(

720p30 with 2500 bitrate will look fine though, recommended max is 3500 everything excessive above this mark is considered a terms of service violation and will get you banned in no time unless you are a partner.


the way you are describing your problem its rather dropping frames due to connectivity issues or just simple buffering issues due to the extremly high bitrate

another point would be changing the keyframe interval to 2 (2seconds) instead of 8 so whenever your encoder would skip a frame it would just be a short skip instead of an 8 second skip
 
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Redin

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So I kept it at 1080p and 30fps turned the bitrate down to 3500 (didn't know about the ToS) and i'm going to try to stream with that later today if everything goes fine I will say so and if no ill downgrade to 720p. I have 2 more questions 1. What is this qsv thingy and 2. What does "Encode in Full Range" do?
 

Redin

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I was streaming for 2 hours and everything was going fine 1080p 30fps and 3500 bitrate then around 2h 10m it started happening and saying cpu encoding or something in the bottom left. Here are my logs.
 

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