OBS to stream doom makes game unplayable

[DoomDash]

So I would like to stream my mediocre playing of Ultra-Nightmare, and when using OBS the game only runs at 10-15 fps. I've tried other games like Witcher 3 with everything maxed @ 2560x1440 and I have no problems. It's just Doom I'm struggling with.

Tried lowering a bunch the OBS settings, as well as using NVIDIA NVENC, and nothing has made it any better as far as I can tell.

Anyone who is streaming got some advice?

[®NapalmSunrise®]

System specs ? and are you using the new OBS studio ?

[DoomDash]

Originally posted by NapalmSunrise®ECWC:

System specs ? and are you using the new OBS studio ?

4.4 3930k, 2 980 ti's, 32gb of ram, ssd's.

Using just OBS classic.

[®NapalmSunrise®]

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Originally posted by NapalmSunrise®ECWC:

System specs ? and are you using the new OBS studio ?

4.4 3930k, 2 980 ti's, 32gb of ram, ssd's.

Using just OBS.

Well ive been using the OBS studio with no issues, the preview window gets buggy/laggy at times but thats just due to open gl from what ive read, as far as streaming it has no impact on fps/gameplay. If not you can try running OBS and the game as an admin but you might already of tried that..

[ZigZach]

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Anyone who is streaming got some advice?

I stream using OBS classic with no issues. What framerate are you streaming at? What is your encoding bitrate? Are you downscaling the video resolution?

[DoomDash]

Originally posted by ZigZach:

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Anyone who is streaming got some advice?

I stream using OBS classic with no issues. What framerate are you streaming at? What is your encoding bitrate? Are you downscaling the video resolution?

Video bit rate is 2500, frame rate 30 fps, base res is 2560x1440 but scaled to 720p.


Strangely OBS seems to not be using my CPU much at all when running it, but Doom CPU usage goes way way up.

[ZigZach]

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Video bit rate is 2500, frame rate 30 fps, base res is 2560x1440 but scaled to 720p.


Strangely OBS seems to not be using my CPU much at all when running it, but Doom CPU usage goes way way up.

Hm strange, I run at very similar settings, 2000kb/s, 30FPS, downscaled to 720p. Do you use window or game capture? I'm looking now and I use monitor, which very well could be the reason it works fine for me.

[DoomDash]

Originally posted by ZigZach:

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Video bit rate is 2500, frame rate 30 fps, base res is 2560x1440 but scaled to 720p.


Strangely OBS seems to not be using my CPU much at all when running it, but Doom CPU usage goes way way up.

Hm strange, I run at very similar settings, 2000kb/s, 30FPS, downscaled to 720p. Do you use window or game capture? I'm looking now and I use monitor, which very well could be the reason it works fine for me.

I'm using game capture, typically that's supposed to have the best performance.

Also I turned on the Ultra-Nightmare FPS settings in game, and my cores are not even being fully utilized actually. I will try monitor mode.

[®NapalmSunrise®]

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Originally posted by ZigZach:

Hm strange, I run at very similar settings, 2000kb/s, 30FPS, downscaled to 720p. Do you use window or game capture? I'm looking now and I use monitor, which very well could be the reason it works fine for me.

I'm using game capture, typically that's supposed to have the best performance.

Also I turned on the Ultra-Nightmare FPS settings in game, and my cores are not even being fully utilized actually. I will try monitor mode.

I will add I have mine set to display capture, 2600 bit, 60 fps 720p

[DoomDash]

Originally posted by NapalmSunrise®ECWC:

Originally posted by DoomDash:

I'm using game capture, typically that's supposed to have the best performance.

Also I turned on the Ultra-Nightmare FPS settings in game, and my cores are not even being fully utilized actually. I will try monitor mode.

I will add I have mine set to display capture, 2600 bit, 60 fps 720p

Okay guys I got it working well. I did what ZigZack does and I switched it to record my monitor rather than the application. Works well now! Thanks everyone for the help.

[®NapalmSunrise®]

Originally posted by DoomDash:

Originally posted by NapalmSunrise®ECWC:

I will add I have mine set to display capture, 2600 bit, 60 fps 720p

Okay guys I got it working well. I did what ZigZack does and I switched it to record my monitor rather than the application. Works well now! Thanks everyone for the help.

Good to hear buddy !!!!

[ZigZach]

NP, glad it's working.