Lots of lag when streaming ark on obs streamlabs

[Dystopia]

My computer definitely can run other high end games while streaming perfectly but whenever i stream ark it freezes and i feel like the program itself is the problem i've lowered the settings on it and even made it windowed mode since fullscreen sometimes ruins it, anyone else who streams this game perfect have some settings i could use for this?

[zerassar]

Change the CPU core affinity for the game and restrict it to a subset of your cores.

Do the same for OBS and set it to the other cores.

Comparing ark to other games is a little silly as you'd be far-fetched to find one similar enough for the comparison. Not saying there isn't a lot of room for improvement though ;-). It's a cpu intensive game.

If you are cpu bound and you do the above it'll help stop each program interfering with each other... But you may still get issues in either obs or ark if it can't process fast enough.

Try also changing the resolution you are streaming at.

[Dystopia]

i'll try switching affinity
i have a 3600x so i shouldn't be seeing problems honestly.
the only reason i say this is because isee people with weaker CPU's streaming it perfectly.

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Dystopia:

i'll try switching affinity
i have a 3600x so i shouldn't be seeing problems honestly.
the only reason i say this is because isee people with weaker CPU's streaming it perfectly.

Hmm they may have tweaked some settings then.

Or have offloaded the OBS processing onto another PC.

I have a 9700k I think it was... 8 core Intel.
Ark and OBS work ok at 720p. But I get frame stutter on OBS if I try 1080p

[Veeshan]

I had this situation after having checked every possible performance problem. It ended up being that I was writing to a drive with only a USB connection (external hard drive). Not enough bandwidth.

[Dystopia]

Originally posted by zerassar:

Originally posted by Dystopia:

i'll try switching affinity
i have a 3600x so i shouldn't be seeing problems honestly.
the only reason i say this is because isee people with weaker CPU's streaming it perfectly.

Hmm they may have tweaked some settings then.

Or have offloaded the OBS processing onto another PC.

I have a 9700k I think it was... 8 core Intel.
Ark and OBS work ok at 720p. But I get frame stutter on OBS if I try 1080p

I'll try playing ark in 720p to see if that works aswell.

[Dystopia]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

I had this situation after having checked every possible performance problem. It ended up being that I was writing to a drive with only a USB connection (external hard drive). Not enough bandwidth.

i have obs running on my ssd and ark is on my HDD i'm not sure if that could be a problem but they're high speed 7200 rpm

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Dystopia:

Originally posted by zerassar:

Hmm they may have tweaked some settings then.

Or have offloaded the OBS processing onto another PC.

I have a 9700k I think it was... 8 core Intel.
Ark and OBS work ok at 720p. But I get frame stutter on OBS if I try 1080p

I'll try playing ark in 720p to see if that works aswell.

Sorry I wasn't clear... That's the streaming resolution not arks.

[Veeshan]

Pretty strange that a thread about streaming performance mentions neither bitrate nor encoding? Surely those would be first to tweak.

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Pretty strange that a thread about streaming performance mentions neither bitrate nor encoding? Surely those would be first to tweak.

Some of several things to try. But for my own purposes I found the defaults to be a good balance of quality to performance.

Since it's only really you and myself active here with the OP ATM, its hardly a big pool to draw experience from ;-)

Did you have specific suggestions on what reconfig options you think might be beneficial?

[Veeshan]

No, your point is well taken about experience. I actually can't tell the difference when I modify bitrate values and so just go based on what I can Google.

Best info I've found is a bitrate of 4400 to 6300 (higher values for faster paced games) for 1080p @ 30fps. But that may be specific to streaming.

Only thing I could glean from the encoding advice was "go with x264."

[Sullen Secret]

I use GPU encoding on a separate GPU from my main one which runs the games. My bitrate for 720p 30 fps is 5000 kbps. I have the key frames set at 2 and the B frames set at 4 to get smooth motion. I never get problems. If you can't see the Twitch chat in OBS, then switch the web content to CPU (though that is the default).