Can't stream this on Discord?

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

I've been googling and trying to fix the issue, but can't figure it out.
It just shows a black screen with the sound playing, or a screen frozen on a single frame with no sound. It does this whether it's fullscreen or windowed.
No idea what the issue is. Any ideas?

Edit: Fixed it. Use DirectX and set to windowed fullscreen, and it streams on discord just fine.

[Decker]

It's not a BG3 issue, this problem exists with a lot of games. Discord streaming is ass.

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

oh really? Dang, it's the first time I've come across this issue at all.

Googling it is still not turning up any solutions that are fixing it. Oh well... guess I just uh... won't stream this.

[Decker]

Yeah, I've had it happen with a number of games. I think the only way to get around it is to share your entire screen but that way you get no sound.

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

yeah, sharing just the screen also wasn't working unless the game was in windowed fullscreen and then, yes. :c no sound. Bit of a deal breaker.

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

I just wanted to comment that I figured out how to get it working in case anyone else needed help with this.
Use DirectX when starting the game and set it to windowed fullscreen(referred to as "fake fullscreen" in the setting).
Streams on discord just fine like that.

[Mosey]

I've both streamed this on Discord and watched other's streams, so I'd guess it's probably a bandwidth issue or just the fact that Discord streaming isn't very good.

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

Originally posted by Mosey:

I've both streamed this on Discord and watched other's streams, so I'd guess it's probably a bandwidth issue or just the fact that Discord streaming isn't very good.

I gotta say I've never had this issue at all before with any other game, but then BG3 seems to stress my computer out way more than anything else I'm playing for some reason too, even though it has similar system requirements to other things I'm playing.

[Mosey]

Yeah, it's got more than a few glitches and isn't very optimized. Streaming it is definitely more resource intensive than not, but it sounds like you figured out the issue either way =)

[Shwin]

Streaming on Discord works fine as long as you optimize your settings for it.

My settings include going into "Voice & Video" and checking both OpenH264 and H.264 Hardware Acceleration, going into "Advanced" and checking Hardware Acceleration, and when streaming, select the game application itself instead of the screen. Sometimes you need to manually add the game you are playing depending on which version and OS you are running on, but these are the settings that worked for me.

Considering how needy the game is in its current state, its better to not stream it unless you have a powerful enough rig to stream it smoothly while playing. I am running on an i9 with 64GB of RAM, but on my 16GB laptop this jitters pretty badly (if its on max settings) without streaming anything. You could lower the graphic settings on the game for a but more smoothness, but that's choices for you to make on your end. Good luck!

[Edgar Allan Hoe]

Originally posted by Shwin:

Streaming on Discord works fine as long as you optimize your settings for it.

It seems to be an issue with Vulkan(at least in my case). I won't pretend to understand why that is.
Still, I appreciate the advice.

[Psychronautron]

"Discord streaming is ass"
LMAO compared to what? Discord's built in streaming is generally reliable and robust in in it's quality and feature set.

Prev comment about issues with Vulkan rendering are correct. Made the swap and it fixed for me. Vulkan is a great bit of software but DirectX has far more edge cases teased out/interoperability due to it's maturity. It's to be expected.

[Escreid]

For everyone who have this audio problem, i've fix it by activated on discord the "experimental recording for streamer" in the audio setting. I hope that help

[LillyFey]

Limit your frame rate to 60. !!!Works!!!