Question / Help WARNING: High Enconding + FPS drop

[dping]

I'm not at my computer so I can't screenshot it. But, oddly enough seeing as I live in England and London is much closer, it says France is the best server for streaming. But even when using it I still get the FPS drop after roughly 15 minutes. I don't think connection is the issue otherwise I'd have had the same problem with my last processor in my old house.

Unless new location is throttling you after 15 minutes...

Whatever the lowest speed you see on the list, take that number and use 80% of it for your buffer and bitrate.

i.e. it says your worse ingest is 2989kbps then set bitrate to 2391.

you can also set your test duration to 5 minutes, Watch your bitrate with Resource Monitor built into windows. right click taskbar and select task manager, to go the performance tab and at the bottom, you'll see "open resource monitor".

This way you can watch it when it drops.


After that all you can really do it call your ISP and tell them the issue.

 

[Neero]

Except I can't really call my ISP because me and my girlfriend are living in her father's house at the moment. I can't really do anything with the router or anything like that... Besides, I don't see why, with a 5mbps upload speed, streaming at 2.5 mbps would cause an issue

 

[Neero]

I just had an interesting devolpment. I was playing Final Fantasy 14 A realm Reborn while downloading Assassin's Creed Unity using Origin, about 15 minutes later that problem started again. I closed Origin completely and about 5 minutes later everything went back to normal. I didn't expect it to happen so I have no logs to show or anything... But still.

 

[alpinlol]

somewhat sounds like your hdd was used by updates/installations and didnt have enough speed left to provide stable fps due to loading problems with ingame surroundings

but at the same time i doubt that this is the problem since it had to be always happening which is pretty unlikely

 

[Neero]

I have been working on this problem with a friend who thinks my hdd is giving up the ghost. He had me perform a test on it which found no damage or errors.

 

[D2ultima]

Your whole PC is giving me a headache dude.

Last try: can you check if you have a paging file on the drive? If you have a second monitor up, you should probably check with Task Manager and see if your hard drives or anything are getting heavily utilized after those 15 minutes... SOMETHING is messing with your PC, and not just your stream (which was my original train of thought).

 

[Neero]

I'm gonna need more detailed instructions. I'm not as good with software as I am with hardware xD What exactly am I looking for?

 

[D2ultima]

Right click "computer" or "my computer" or "This PC".
Select "Properties"
On the side, select "advanced system settings".
In the new window, go to the advanced tab and under the "performance" box, select "settings".
Go again to the "advanced" tab and under virtual memory, see what the amount is. This amount should generally be equal to your RAM. So 16GB of RAM = 16384MB, etc etc.
If this number is not set to that, you can try changing this and setting it as "system managed" on an internal hard drive (if you have more than one drive, select the drive that is most likely to not be in use while gaming/downloading/streaming).
Slay Origin with the fire of 3000 suns and if you need to run a game like BF4, use the program "outcome".

As for monitoring your PC's usage, that should be self-explanatory. You're looking to see if your disks are being used up at the same time that your "lag" begins.

 

[Neero]

Ok, so during all that do I need to be testing my stream or is it not necessary. And something I should've mentioned ages ago, when the lag starts my CPU usage at the bottom of Task Manager goes up and stays at around 90-100%.

Also I don't have a second monitor. Is it worth not recording while I stream because I have OBS set to both.

 

[Neero]

Also I don't have Origin running unless I'm downloading a game I couldn't find on steam or running Dragon Age Inquisition because it wont run otherwise.

 

[Neero]

And I just checked, following all the steps, the virtual memory thing is set to use all 8gb of my RAM like I imagine it should.

 

[D2ultima]

.... Yes, please kill your stream recording. Try just streaming and see. Your HDD is probably being maxed out with the writes, causing your paging file to screw up and stutter stuff for you. It used to happen to me when I was rendering videos on my HDD and I had my paging file set to that instead of my SSD, so I changed it back to my SSD.

 

[Neero]

I tried streaming without recording and I had no change. It didn't even wait 15 minutes this time. I think we're running out of ideas xD

 

[D2ultima]

I... I... I don't even know. I think I'll need to actually check out a system like that firsthand.

 

[Neero]

Well then thank you sooooo much for all your effort :) if you come up with anything else just let me know. When me and my girlfriend get our own place I'll try streaming again but if anyone else has any ideas, your input is welcome :)