Question / Help Why Do Emulators Lag My Stream?

[Kearstin]

Assuming that you just using window capture when streaming emulators thru OBS, is there a particular reason it would buffer and lag my stream? It's not like ROMs are big files so what could cause a lag?

Using everything else does not have buffering or a lag.
Whether it's my Blackmagic Thunderbolt for consoles, using Reflector to mirror my iPhone games, or using Steam.

Something about Emulators just chugs my stream. I use OpenEmu to play Emulators.

iMac 27"
24G RAM
i5 Core
NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M graphics

Is it something in my OBS settings?
Is there another way to capture emulators?

 

[Sapiens]

As I understand it window capture performs pretty poorly on Macs. Have you tried using display or syphon capture instead? Or tried using a different emulation package like Libretro/RetroArch?

 

[amsyar ZeRo]

@Kearstin Usually,emulators tax CPU a bit as it needs to "fool" the ROM into thinking it's a retro console,not a Mac,rather than running it on the Mac.I've been there before(playing .exe files on Mac with Winebottler)

 

[Kearstin]

@Kearstin Usually,emulators tax CPU a bit as it needs to "fool" the ROM into thinking it's a retro console,not a Mac,rather than running it on the Mac.I've been there before(playing .exe files on Mac with Winebottler)

That makes sense. That's a bummer, but it makes sense!
I do have older consoles I could hook up but, as we know, all those free roms tho lol

 

[Kearstin]

As I understand it window capture performs pretty poorly on Macs. Have you tried using display or syphon capture instead? Or tried using a different emulation package like Libretro/RetroArch?

I haven't tried that nope! Is it a better option for emulators?

 

[Kearstin]

Is there maybe specific settings I should apply to accommodate?
Bitrate, output, etc?

All I'm trying to say, is the people want Excitebike LOL

 

[Kearstin]

Or is there a better emulator to use on a Mac than OpenEmu?

 

[Kearstin]

Just wanted to share that since I started using the game capture instead of window capture, it's a flawless stream now when using emulators. Thanks everyone!

 

[amsyar ZeRo]

@Kearstin Oh,so that's the problem.Using window capture on a Mac doesn't work really great opposed to Windows due to the Mac's API.Anyways,glad to hear your problem has been fixed.

 

[Kearstin]

@Kearstin Oh,so that's the problem.Using window capture on a Mac doesn't work really great opposed to Windows due to the Mac's API.Anyways,glad to hear your problem has been fixed.

Yeah I guess that was my fault. I assumed window capture for emulator since they aren't large files. Until I learned the CPU part haha.
Game capture wins!

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