Stuttering While Streaming

[Rosminn]

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF 3.40 GHz

GPU: RTX 4070

RAM: 32 GB DDR5

I've been experiencing frame drops only when streaming on Discord. Warhammer 3 is the only game affected by these issues. My frames will be at a consistent 60 FPS with no stuttering issues prior to streaming on Discord but will suddenly jump to 90 FPS and be practically unplayable when streaming due to constant stuttering on both the campaign and battle map. The stream watchers only experience frame drops every second whereas mine are constant. Strangely, the free look camera when the middle mouse button is held down doesn't experience any issues.

I've exhausted basically every option I can find online for a resolution in the settings for both Discord and Warhammer 3. Both programs have been reinstalled. Issue is experienced both with and without mods. While the issues were first experienced when Thrones of Decay dropped, the issue persists when going back to previous builds of the game.

Any help or insight would be appreciated since I enjoy streaming this game to friends when playing. It's just not nearly as enjoyable when I can't share my gameplay with the boys.

[Tommytools]

Have you tried capping your FPS?

I believe you can even cap FPS for individual games if you use the nvidia bloatware.

[Rosminn]

Originally posted by Tommytools:

Have you tried capping your FPS?

I believe you can even cap FPS for individual games if you use the nvidia bloatware.

I had tried capping the FPS in the game settings but couldn't find an option for it. I ended up going into the Nvidia settings to cap it globally. The game no longer has egregious stuttering but still has occasional moments every few seconds. While it's not ideal, it's at least moderately playable now. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Tommytools]

Originally posted by Rosminn:

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Glad it helped a bit.

Might also be worth checking if Steam's broadcast function is active, I've not used it much, but it is also a stream of sorts. If it is on it could be interfering with your stream (or just eating up bandwidth).

Another thing that occasionally causes issues: steam in game overlay, could be worth testing to see if turning it off for TW:WH3 makes the stream smoother.


Considering this situation is affected by TW:WH, Steam, Discord, your connection to your modem (if wifi, try wired) and your connection to the discord server getting the stream to be stable could be tricky, there's just too many factors involved (many of which folks like us have no influence over).

It might be worth signing on to the TW:WH discord (or discord's own fora/discord servers) and see if there are any folks on there with more experience streaming on discord, I'm more a tech support guy than a streamer.