Question / Help When streaming, my in-game FPS drops to 30, although it should be 60; +my latency starts spiking

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ComradeSerge

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First time streamer here, and I have a few issues with my initial stream testing.

I streamed Path of Exile and everything was perfectly fine except 2 issues. Firstly, although my in-game FPS is always 60 (v-sync), it dropped to flat 30 while streaming. Now, this wasn't your sudden FPS drops associated with straining your CPU and/or GPU. It was a constant, flat 30 FPS, as if the fact that I was streaming somehow limited the FPS to 30. I did set the OBS encoder to stream 720p @30 FPS, but that should not change my in-game FPS, right?

Secondly, although I have a 5Mbps upload link, and the max bitrate is set to 3300, my latency changes from a stable 48 to 60 with spikes up to 120. How can it be possible that a 20M download/5M upload link isn't enough to stream in 720p and not have an in-game lag? I used to play Path of Exile with a 0.5M upload link with a stable latency (without streaming, ofc). Is it possible that 4.5M isn't enough to stream at 720p?

Thanks a lot!
 
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ComradeSerge

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Hm, ok, I'll try game capture then, but I'm completely new to all this, not sure if I'll know how...

I've set game capture to "use hotkey" and "f12", hope it works

EDIT: Ok, it works, and my FPS is a flat 60, but my camera isn't shown when using game capture.
 
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