Question / Help What can be causing my encoding lags?

[Ernst_Blofield]

I've attached my log file here. One comment is I know of the 317 frames I dropped they're ISP related. What I am curious is why I am getting encoding lag. I can tell you when it happens and my subsequent resources.

It happens in Apex legends, when I'm dropping mostly.

My TOTAL CPU is approximately 55%
My OBS CPU usage is 45-50%
GPU usage is <25%
Memory is <25%

I've attached my log file here. Any help here would be great. I see there is some encoding lag in the file but I can't for the life of me figure out why, I just know when it happens in game and I can see it give me an encoding warning and of course the encoding lag log ticks upward. Its not more than 0.6% of the stream but as a stream quality stickler I'm desperately trying to figure out why this is happening and what I can do to prevent it.

This is on a dedicated stream PC:

Ryzen 1800X standard 3.7ghz clock
GTX 950
32GB ram
Avermedia 4k cap card for game play (set to 1440p144hz)
El Gato hd60pro for camera

 

[Narcogen]

11:24:58.472: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] preset: faster

18:36:22.409: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 9717/1552986 (0.6%)

Total CPU usage is not a useful metric here as not every operation that a game or that OBS needs to perform can be scaled to an arbitrary number of threads. The skipped frame warning means that .6% of the time, OBS tried to encode a frame and could not because it did not have enough CPU resources.

If you absolutely cannot stand that .6% of encoding lag, you can try setting OBS to a higher CPU priority and see if that helps, or drop from faster to fast, or use NVENC instead.

 

[sendblink23]

It seems odd to me that you are getting that encoding lag with Faster on that 8 cores 16 threads Ryzen CPU

Not sure if this would help but I do suggest to disable Game Mode
Looking at Log it says:
11:20:53.038: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
11:20:53.038: Game DVR: On

 

[Narcogen]

Game Mode is not Game DVR, those are separate features.

Game Mode, generally speaking, causes rendering lag, not encoding lag.

 

[DKRecords]

Is Your Ram Dual Channel? Also Have You Enabled Your X.M.P Profile for said ram?