Will Graphics Settings on PC Affect Stream Speed?

[coffinzm]

Will lowering the graphic settings on my games improve streaming performance? I've noticed that FPS counts are much higher (around the 60s) during cut scenes, but drop dramatically when gameplay resumes (around 24). Is streaming to the Steam Link sopping up CPU/GPU power? Enough that it should affect my FPS numbers like that?

Thank you!

[UnReal-4-Life]

yes if u wifi maybe not if you hard wire.

[Tucu]

Originally posted by coffinzm:

Will lowering the graphic settings on my games improve streaming performance? I've noticed that FPS counts are much higher (around the 60s) during cut scenes, but drop dramatically when gameplay resumes (around 24). Is streaming to the Steam Link sopping up CPU/GPU power? Enough that it should affect my FPS numbers like that?

Thank you!

It depends on your specs and the games. How many fps are you getting when you play at the same resolution in your PC? How many when you are streaming?

[mymuesli HONIGNUSS]

From my experience the graphics settings have a huge affect at the performance of the stream.
I am currently struggling to get Witcher 3 to streaming decently.
My rig is a i7 860 (afaik 1st gen, no iGPU) and a GTX 770.
It is powerful enough to have Witcher 3 running locally at 1080p with decent graphics.
As soon as I start streaming (wired Gbit Network, iperf measures ca. 700-800 mbit) the only way to get about 60fps and a non stuttery/laggy stream is to set down graphics to 720p and almost everything to low.
I am not yet done trying out the different encoders using this script to switch between NVIFR and NVFBC encoders.

[deemon]

Originally posted by coffinzm:

Will lowering the graphic settings on my games improve streaming performance? I've noticed that FPS counts are much higher (around the 60s) during cut scenes, but drop dramatically when gameplay resumes (around 24). Is streaming to the Steam Link sopping up CPU/GPU power? Enough that it should affect my FPS numbers like that?

Thank you!

Yes. If your GPU works at 100%, it does very poor job on hardware encoding the stream.
So if you can monitor your GPU load somehow (I use nvidia inspector (or GPU-Z from http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ )), it would give you hint to play with settings. For older games that make my GPU spit fire and try to make the PC fly to produce 200-300 fps, I usually just enable v-sync ... gives quite some room for encoding + your link can't show anything above 60 fps anyway. For games that barely manage 40-60 fps at 100% GPU load, I try to play with settings to find the most abusive effect and lower it so the GPU load is ~80-90% without streaming.