High SPEC pc struggling to stream any game??

[shayaanfacebook]

Hi Guys,

I have an i7-8700k with a 1080ti 11GB, yet I struggle to stream the most simplest and non-graphically intensive games? This makes me really sad as I spent so much on this PC purely to have a smooth stream, but my in-game fps drops a HUGE amount, to the point where it actually looks faster on my stream? Which makes no sense to me.

An example is me yesterday streaming AP reloaded, where I tried streaming this at 60 fps, and got significant in-game lag. Then dropped to 30 fps and still got some in-game fps stuttering etc. With these specs I shouldn't be having problems. I tried both x264 encoding and NVENC, both are slow. The same goes for when I play a youtube video whilst playing, the game just lags an insane amount. Could this be an issue with my CPU, as a six-core processor shouldn't be having these problems??

The stream is absolutely fine, its my in-game FPS which is taking the major hit for some reason.

Thanks!

 

[Rdslw]

Download newest driver. MS driver instead of Intel will do something like that.
how much ram do you have ? and do you live-stream or is it buffored somewhere ?

 

[Boof]

If you are streaming using SOFTWARE, and not hardware, Your CPU will suck the majority of what it need to process the raw data before pushing it out.
The Ingame FPS will take the hit nomatter how many core or how fast Your CPU is.

There is nowai you can get 60FPS and streaming at the same time without hardware.

Get yourself an ELGATO Streaming card, so it can handle the Processing of the game.
Get yourself a second machine, and install the ELGATO in that, and duplicate Your screen image from Your gaming rig to Your other machine.
That way you are not Processing the data on Your gaming machine, and it will not take any FPS hit.

You will though be Limited by the HDMI refresh rate which is 60Hz and 60 FPS will be max you can play at, and stream at since the HDMI will Lock at 60FPS to the Processing right.

For Your stream to be smooth you also need a really fast Internet UPLOAD Connection.

Basically, you should not stream and play on the same machine, if you want to have "lossless" fps while streaming on Your gaming rig.

Please note, the ELGATO Cards can also cowork With Your New Graphics card, and use that as a co-processor to process data before streaming, but you still need the actual card to Control this, and the ELGATO software to Control this.

Boof

 

[jed.r.w]

Change your encoding from slow to fast/veryfast. Slow encoding is too much for your CPU while gaming.

 

[shayaanfacebook]

Download newest driver. MS driver instead of Intel will do something like that.
how much ram do you have ? and do you live-stream or is it buffored somewhere ?

All my drivers are up to date. I have 16GB Ram 3200mhz, and I live-stream. So this shouldn't be an issue.

If you are streaming using SOFTWARE, and not hardware, Your CPU will suck the majority of what it need to process the raw data before pushing it out.
The Ingame FPS will take the hit nomatter how many core or how fast Your CPU is.

There is nowai you can get 60FPS and streaming at the same time without hardware.

Get yourself an ELGATO Streaming card, so it can handle the Processing of the game.
Get yourself a second machine, and install the ELGATO in that, and duplicate Your screen image from Your gaming rig to Your other machine.
That way you are not Processing the data on Your gaming machine, and it will not take any FPS hit.

You will though be Limited by the HDMI refresh rate which is 60Hz and 60 FPS will be max you can play at, and stream at since the HDMI will Lock at 60FPS to the Processing right.

For Your stream to be smooth you also need a really fast Internet UPLOAD Connection.

Basically, you should not stream and play on the same machine, if you want to have "lossless" fps while streaming on Your gaming rig.

Please note, the ELGATO Cards can also cowork With Your New Graphics card, and use that as a co-processor to process data before streaming, but you still need the actual card to Control this, and the ELGATO software to Control this.

Boof

ELGATO cards are used for XBOX / PS4 streaming, with OBS, my system should be fine, there are worse specs im seeing on twitch which are streaming the same game, 60 fps on stream and on their screen they are displaying constant 120 fps for APB Reloaded. I am watching my CPU usage, its not going over the top. Therefore, I literally have no idea whats going on here, I feel even if I used 3 titan X's with an 100 thread CPU, i'd be getting the same issue. Yes in-game FPS should take a hit, but on a low requirement game, I don't see why its not hitting 120fps constantly, it drops as low as 70-80 fps, which I think is ridiculous for a game so old.

 

[shayaanfacebook]

Change your encoding from slow to fast/veryfast. Slow encoding is too much for your CPU while gaming.

I have tried this, its already fast and still slow 🙁

 

[jed.r.w]

Hmmm, that is strange. You should be seeing much better performance with that CPU and GPU pairing IMO. What about windows power settings...?https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/use-maximum-cpu-power-windows-10

 

[superninja12]

Hey sir,

what software are you using to stream?

 

[shayaanfacebook]

Hmmm, that is strange. You should be seeing much better performance with that CPU and GPU pairing IMO. What about windows power settings...?https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/use-maximum-cpu-power-windows-10

It's a desktop device so power settings wouldn't apply here

Hey sir,

what software are you using to stream?

I'm using OBS, I heard its the best for streaming

 

[jed.r.w]

I appreciate that but they have been know to... It's worth a try right?

 

[logainofhades]

If you are streaming using SOFTWARE, and not hardware, Your CPU will suck the majority of what it need to process the raw data before pushing it out.
The Ingame FPS will take the hit nomatter how many core or how fast Your CPU is.

There is nowai you can get 60FPS and streaming at the same time without hardware.

8700k and 2700x are plenty capable of streaming, though the 2700x is better at it.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3287-amd-r7-2700-and-2700x-review-game-streaming-cpu-benchmarks-memory/page-2