OBS frame drops and steam games crash

[Hippykinss]

So as the title says, lately every time when I stream my frames drop within OBS. I first set it to 60 and by the end of the stream it would have dropped down to 19fps. Another issue I'm having is that any steam game I open will crash after about 10 minutes. I played Life is Strange and the issue with that is the scene would freeze and I would have to force close. Now I'm playing The Telltale Batman series and the issue with this game is it'll crash and say "Batman_win8.exe has stopped working" and I'll get frame drops with that too. I feel like these two problems are correlating but I'm not sure how. I have a pretty good computer and I've been updating all the drivers, updating Steam and checking my hardware for corruption. I verified the caches on both games. I'm currently running a memtest. So now every time I stream, I drop a bunch of frames within the OBS client and my Steam game crashes multiple times as well. It's ruining the quality of my stream and I'm not sure how to stop it.

 

[SpeedLynx]

OOO. please give us the specs of your computer so we can have an idea what you're trying to use OBS on.

 

[maxalge]

So as the title says, lately every time when I stream my frames drop within OBS. I first set it to 60 and by the end of the stream it would have dropped down to 19fps. Another issue I'm having is that any steam game I open will crash after about 10 minutes. I played Life is Strange and the issue with that is the scene would freeze and I would have to force close. Now I'm playing The Telltale Batman series and the issue with this game is it'll crash and say "Batman_win8.exe has stopped working" and I'll get frame drops with that too. I feel like these two problems are correlating but I'm not sure how. I have a pretty good computer and I've been updating all the drivers, updating Steam and checking my hardware for corruption. I verified the caches on both games. I'm currently running a memtest. So now every time I stream, I drop a bunch of frames within the OBS client and my Steam game crashes multiple times as well. It's ruining the quality of my stream and I'm not sure how to stop it.

are you trying to record into the same hard drive you have the game installed on?



have you disabled the steam overlay?

 

[veldrane2]

In addition to complete system specs, which drive(s) you run your OS, your game and record to from OBS, can you also post the OBS settings you are using ? Especially the quality ones.

 

[Hippykinss]

OOO. please give us the specs of your computer so we can have an idea what you're trying to use OBS on.

PC specs: https://gyazo.com/ee1f99894403f3c2815efb865f5a2fde

 

[Hippykinss]

So as the title says, lately every time when I stream my frames drop within OBS. I first set it to 60 and by the end of the stream it would have dropped down to 19fps. Another issue I'm having is that any steam game I open will crash after about 10 minutes. I played Life is Strange and the issue with that is the scene would freeze and I would have to force close. Now I'm playing The Telltale Batman series and the issue with this game is it'll crash and say "Batman_win8.exe has stopped working" and I'll get frame drops with that too. I feel like these two problems are correlating but I'm not sure how. I have a pretty good computer and I've been updating all the drivers, updating Steam and checking my hardware for corruption. I verified the caches on both games. I'm currently running a memtest. So now every time I stream, I drop a bunch of frames within the OBS client and my Steam game crashes multiple times as well. It's ruining the quality of my stream and I'm not sure how to stop it.

are you trying to record into the same hard drive you have the game installed on?



have you disabled the steam overlay?

Yes it's on the same drive and and no I didn't disable the overlay.

 

[Hippykinss]

In addition to complete system specs, which drive(s) you run your OS, your game and record to from OBS, can you also post the OBS settings you are using ? Especially the quality ones.

I have an SSD and an HDD, so far everything is on the SSD. My OBS settings are 3000 bitrate, 48 fps, and downscaled 1280x720. System specs: https://gyazo.com/ee1f99894403f3c2815efb865f5a2fde

 

[SpeedLynx]

Take off downscaling, you're taking up CPU by making OBS downscale each frame.

 

[veldrane2]

OK, I also run OBS, but I have it installed on a separate SSD from my Games and OS thus less issues. If your game and OS are installed on your SSD, you may try to record it to teh HD, but not sure if that will help or further slow it down, it is worth trying though.

if you remove video scaling, its true it will actually be better for your CPU, but you will notice your GPU will start chugging, even a GTX 1080, and you'll need to scale down the resolution or texture quality etc. within your game. If you want to use scaled down vid cap, then set it somewhat higher then what you have now, and scale down your game to the same exact resolution as your OBS capture. then in OBS, go to the applicable options and set it to active window, or active full screen app (I forgot exactly which, but its there). that way you record without any scaling issues.

My OBS was also chugging like crazy, but in my case, it turned out to be audio, not video causing all the drama. I can record at max video quality, but as soon as I pass mid range on audio (using built-in HD Audio on Asus ROG mobo), it just goes completely crazy and starts to skip frames and entire segments on the recording.

So go into your settings, and make sure you are not capturing HD audio, lower it very significantly.

Experiment with all of the above until you find a happy, comfortable medium you can live with.

And as stated above, do disable any overlays etc. Bring up your task manager, see what other stuff you don't want you can shut down, it does make a big difference.

 

[Hippykinss]

Take off downscaling, you're taking up CPU by making OBS downscale each frame.

Downscaling is meant to reduce power, streaming at 1920x1080 will hurt the stream.