Playing a game and watching a twitch stream - Problem!

[bigcores]

Hey, I've been having this problem for a while now and I'm hoping i can solve it with some help. When I'm play some video games, I like to also have a twitch stream open (i have dual monitors). When i select source quality on a stream whilst playing a game, it tanks my fps down by pretty much half which, depending what game it is, can make it unplayable. I know this probably sounds really picky since i could just turn the quality down and everything would be fine but i want to see if anyone else has this issue and if there are any fixes for it.

My specs are the following:
EVGA GTX 780Ti
Intel i7 4790k
16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengence RAM
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming MOBO

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[mcnumpty23]

i would suspect high cpu usage from flash player

 

[bigcores]

i would suspect high cpu usage from flash player

I doesn't seem to be a problem with CPU usage since I'm sitting at 70% usage with pretty much all of that being the game. Chrome only uses 15% of what the game uses of the CPU.

 

[mcnumpty23]

can you try playing the same game and watching youtube on highest quality and full screen to see if it does the same

 

[bigcores]

can you try playing the same game and watching youtube on highest quality and full screen to see if it does the same

Just played a 1080p 60fps video and although it lowers performance a little bit, its nowhere near as bad as twitch.

 

[mcnumpty23]

never used twitch--so just went and tried it

i have 3 browsers open already all playing stuff that uses flash--adding twitch caused flash player to crash immediately

so dont know what it is but seems specific to that twitch site and flash player

 

[bigcores]

never used twitch--so just went and tried it

i have 3 browsers open already all playing stuff that uses flash--adding twitch caused flash player to crash immediately

so dont know what it is but seems specific to that twitch site and flash player

Damn, that sucks. In the past, there was a way to play twitch steams in a different format by adding /hls to the end of the link but that no longer works. Guess I'll just have to deal with it for now. Thanks for your help any ways

 

[mcnumpty23]

no problem roll on all web sites using html5 and no more flash player

 

[THM01]

It's definitely not the capacity of your CPU or graphics card.

There is a small chance your graphics card is overheating, is it cleaned out with compressed air and/or do you monitor the GPU temps? Speedfan is a free program you can use to see your GPU temps if you want.

If the youtube thing works okay, then I'm not sure.

 

[bigcores]

It's definitely not the capacity of your CPU or graphics card.

There is a small chance your graphics card is overheating, is it cleaned out with compressed air and/or do you monitor the GPU temps? Speedfan is a free program you can use to see your GPU temps if you want.

If the youtube thing works okay, then I'm not sure.

As it happens, i actually just cleaned my entire pc last week with compressed air. I'll download Speedfan to see the GPU temps just in case.

 

[bigcores]

It's definitely not the capacity of your CPU or graphics card.

There is a small chance your graphics card is overheating, is it cleaned out with compressed air and/or do you monitor the GPU temps? Speedfan is a free program you can use to see your GPU temps if you want.

If the youtube thing works okay, then I'm not sure.

Downloaded Speedfan and it shows the GPU temp to be 40C. On another note, i just found out you can use VLC player to play streams using a programme called Livestreamer. I can play it at source quality through VLC with literally no performance cost. Here a link to a tutorial if anyone else is interested http://vaughnwhiskey.tumblr.com/post/105370007601/updatedwatchtwitchvlc

 

[mcnumpty23]

It's definitely not the capacity of your CPU or graphics card.

There is a small chance your graphics card is overheating, is it cleaned out with compressed air and/or do you monitor the GPU temps? Speedfan is a free program you can use to see your GPU temps if you want.

If the youtube thing works okay, then I'm not sure.

Downloaded Speedfan and it shows the GPU temp to be 40C. On another note, i just found out you can use VLC player to play streams using a programme called Livestreamer. I can play it at source quality through VLC with literally no performance cost. Here a link to a tutorial if anyone else is interested http://vaughnwhiskey.tumblr.com/post/105370007601/updatedwatchtwitchvlc

well done you sorted it yourself--never thought it would be your gpu temp--i am under full water here and it crashed my flash player

 

[THM01]

It's definitely not the capacity of your CPU or graphics card.

There is a small chance your graphics card is overheating, is it cleaned out with compressed air and/or do you monitor the GPU temps? Speedfan is a free program you can use to see your GPU temps if you want.

If the youtube thing works okay, then I'm not sure.

Downloaded Speedfan and it shows the GPU temp to be 40C. On another note, i just found out you can use VLC player to play streams using a programme called Livestreamer. I can play it at source quality through VLC with literally no performance cost. Here a link to a tutorial if anyone else is interested http://vaughnwhiskey.tumblr.com/post/105370007601/updatedwatchtwitchvlc

40C is definitely a good temperature for a graphics card. If that's under load, then awesome.

Glad you found something else to work though.