Can't stream Fortnite with 4690k and gtx 1060 3gb?

[pdiz72]

I've been trying to stream Fortnite on YouTube, but I cannot stream with OBS and run Fortnite without some in game lag. At max settings on Fortnite, I get around 90-100 fps, but when I start streaming, I turn the settings down and only run the game at around 20-40 fps.

When I run Fortnite on its own, it uses 80-90% of my CPU usage, and that's after ending all the tasks of the Epic Launchers, but I still run the game fine.

I put my stream at 720p at 60fps, 2500 Bitrate and the CPU Usage Preset is set to faster.

I think it may have to do with that I have only 3gb of VRAM or my CPU which is overclocked. Any ideas to what I can do?

 

[rekiso102]

I would recommend an i7 more for streaming. Along with a better graphics card than a 1060 3GB, I have one and I know it can’t always run games perfectly even while not streaming. I don’t think your systems just good for streaming.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Your CPU is what is taxed with streaming. being that the game alone (which is not well optimized) is hitting 80-90% on your CPU alone it doesn't surprise me that you're getting lag. Not much you can do without a CPU upgrade.

 

[coozie7]

Fortnite is hard on the CPU from the start and streaming is simply overwhelming the current i5: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/game-streaming-encoding-coffee-lake-ryzen,review-34144.html
You could hunt up a used 4790K, it's Hyperthreading will help a bit but realistically most 4 core CPUs are going to really struggle streaming a CPU heavy game like Fortnite.
Personally, I'm not very much in to streaming but what about Shadowplay?

 

[pdiz72]

Fortnite is hard on the CPU from the start and streaming is simply overwhelming the current i5: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/game-streaming-encoding-coffee-lake-ryzen,review-34144.html
You could hunt up a used 4790K, it's Hyperthreading will help a bit but realistically most 4 core CPUs are going to really struggle streaming a CPU heavy game like Fortnite.
Personally, I'm not very much in to streaming but what about Shadowplay?

Shadowplay lets me stream with no problems whatsoever

 

[dontlistentome]

If a game uses 90% of your CPU, that leaves 10% for everything else including streaming.

So my suggestion, if you don't want to spend money, is to approach this from two angles. One, reduce settings in Fortnite for the specific purpose of reducing CPU load. This will take some experimentation. Try to get CPU load as low as you can while maintaining 'good enough' visuals. Some settings are harder on the CPU than others, those are the ones to focus on.

Next, do the same with OBS. Reduce settings and see if you can get CPU load down. Maybe reducing bit rate can buy you some headroom. Maybe using another piece of software, like Shadowplay, will reduce CPU demand.

Let's say you're at 90% Fortnite, 20% OBS CPU load. That's 110% demand which is why you're having problems. If you got Fortnite down to 80% and OBS to 15%, now you're at 95% and probably have a smooth game and stream.

 

[fagetti]

You could always try overclocking your cpu. Im running fortnite on 8 year old cpu just fine. Everything maxed out is no problem but if im on stock speeds 2.9ghz im hitting 99% usage. Overclocked to 4ghz and more im getting 70% usage all settings maxed out

 

[fagetti]

Need more specs. Ram, motherboard, psu, if your interested in overclocking

 

[pdiz72]

You could always try overclocking your cpu. Im running fortnite on 8 year old cpu just fine. Everything maxed out is no problem but if im on stock speeds 2.9ghz im hitting 99% usage. Overclocked to 4ghz and more im getting 70% usage all settings maxed out

I did overclock by CPU to 4.5 but it still uses alot of CPU

 

[Rogue Leader]

You could always try overclocking your cpu. Im running fortnite on 8 year old cpu just fine. Everything maxed out is no problem but if im on stock speeds 2.9ghz im hitting 99% usage. Overclocked to 4ghz and more im getting 70% usage all settings maxed out

But you aren't streaming.

 

[fagetti]

Point taken rogue leader, forgot about streaming . Thats a very nice overclock, i still dont get why your cpu is running at 90% without streaming, it should have better performance than mine. Keep task manager on backround when your playing, is it using all cores evenly or only few?
Go to nvidia control panel then select fortnite, change thread optimatization to enabled and then save.

Edit: when your ingame check task manager how much ram is it using