OBS lags me

[Compliant]

Requesting assistance. I'm getting visual lag when using OBS over twitch while playing. Anyone out there experienced that can suggest a change in settings or a different program? Thank you.

[alt]

I stream pretty much all my gameplay. What is your setup? When I get visual lag while OBS is running, 99% of the time it is because Shadow Play is running in the background. Shadow Play is a recording software for NVIDIA GPU's. Aside from that, I haven't had any issues.

I run : Open Broadcast Software (Not the Studio Version) 32 bit.

My setup : Intel i7-4790k , ASUS GTX 970 Strix, 16gb DDR3 Memory.

[Schoop]

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Requesting assistance. I'm getting visual lag when using OBS over twitch while playing. Anyone out there experienced that can suggest a change in settings or a different program? Thank you.

That's on your end with OBS.

[DuskTheViking]

I Also run OBS and i have to run some pretty tight settings due to massive limitations.
1st: i suggest you use OBS studio, it seems to run better.
2nd: could you define "visual lag" im not 100% sure what you mean.

[FerretBomb]

Define 'lag'. People use that word to describe a METRIC ****ING CRAPTON of things.

Video delayed in the preview? Input latency in-game? Hell, some people think that the 9-12 second processing and buffering delay inherent in an HLS livestream is 'lag'.

720p@30fps, 2000kbps, x264 Veryfast encoder. Use a Game Capture source for the game.

[Compliant]

Ummm I mean it gets really choppy visually, people skip around, gets really hard to play. I assume it was putting too much work on CPU/GPU.

NVIDIA GTX 970, i5-3570k 3.40ghz, 16gig ram.

[Compliant]

Originally posted by twitch/Dusk_youtube:

I Also run OBS and i have to run some pretty tight settings due to massive limitations.
1st: i suggest you use OBS studio, it seems to run better.
2nd: could you define "visual lag" im not 100% sure what you mean.

Is OBS studio something you have to pay for? Do you suggest pirating it or just buying it?

[Compliant]

Originally posted by FerretBomb:

Define 'lag'. People use that word to describe a METRIC ****ING CRAPTON of things.

Video delayed in the preview? Input latency in-game? Hell, some people think that the 9-12 second processing and buffering delay inherent in an HLS livestream is 'lag'.

720p@30fps, 2000kbps, x264 Veryfast encoder. Use a Game Capture source for the game.

Do you have any tricks for getting game capture to capture DBD? I just get a black screen unless I use monitor capture.

[FerretBomb]

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Ummm I mean it gets really choppy visually, people skip around, gets really hard to play. I assume it was putting too much work on CPU/GPU.

NVIDIA GTX 970, i5-3570k 3.40ghz, 16gig ram.

In-game or out of game in the OBS preview window?

Enable vsync in-game; most commonly that's caused by a game pegging the GPU, assuming nothing else will be using it, and OBS does. It's less than 1% load hit, for scaling/compositing and a few other features like colorspace conversion, but that can make some games freak out.

Otherwise, the most common cause is lazy people using Monitor Capture under Windows 7 (which is terribad and slow and should never be used), or turning Aero off for some idiotic reason.


Past that, would need to see a logfile from a live session. Help menu, then Upload and paste the link. Could also open a thread in the OBS Q&H forum, since most who hang out there to assist will likely have a better grasp on OBS than a random game forum.

[Compliant]

Originally posted by FerretBomb:

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Ummm I mean it gets really choppy visually, people skip around, gets really hard to play. I assume it was putting too much work on CPU/GPU.

NVIDIA GTX 970, i5-3570k 3.40ghz, 16gig ram.

In-game or out of game in the OBS preview window?

Enable vsync in-game; most commonly that's caused by a game pegging the GPU, assuming nothing else will be using it, and OBS does. It's less than 1% load hit, for scaling/compositing and a few other features like colorspace conversion, but that can make some games freak out.

Otherwise, the most common cause is lazy people using Monitor Capture under Windows 7 (which is terribad and slow and should never be used), or turning Aero off for some idiotic reason.


Past that, would need to see a logfile from a live session. Help menu, then Upload and paste the link. Could also open a thread in the OBS Q&H forum, since most who hang out there to assist will likely have a better grasp on OBS than a random game forum.

My play is choppy ingame (making me lose when people are watching sadface).

VSync in DBD or VSync in OBS?

I'm using monitor capture because I couldn't get game capture to work, figuring that out is probably what I should be doing.

[Aletheia]

In my case, streaming Dead by Daylight lead me to a 30 fps game. I don't know why. Sometimes if I alt-tab a lot while on stream, it comes back to 60, but 90% of the time, it's 30 fps. And this happens only when i'm streaming (OBS).
If i'm playing normally without broadcasting anything, I'm playing at 60fps.

[ch1pset]

Problems usually occur when you tax your cpu too hard. Believe it or not, games rely heavily on the cpu as DX11- and OGL have a lot of overhead. Once DX12 and Vulkan are released and adopted, that overhead will be gone. The most you can do now is to lower the streaming resolution to 720p and if you need to, lower framerate to 30fps. You could also try the Quick Sync encoder if your cpu has an intel integrated gpu. It takes some of the load off the main cpu threads. This is actually what I use and I lose almost no performance in-game. The Quick Sync encoder doesn't look as good as the x264 encoding though, so you need a little higher bitrate.

[FerretBomb]

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Originally posted by twitch/Dusk_youtube:

I Also run OBS and i have to run some pretty tight settings due to massive limitations.
1st: i suggest you use OBS studio, it seems to run better.
2nd: could you define "visual lag" im not 100% sure what you mean.

Is OBS studio something you have to pay for? Do you suggest pirating it or just buying it?

Studio is the new multiplatform codebase. It's still free. It's not at feature-parity with Classic, and most serious streamers avoid it at present as it's clunky and has severe UI/workflow problems. A lot of the overhaul was more aimed at making it newbie-friendly, instead of functional.

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Originally posted by FerretBomb:

Define 'lag'. People use that word to describe a METRIC ****ING CRAPTON of things.

Video delayed in the preview? Input latency in-game? Hell, some people think that the 9-12 second processing and buffering delay inherent in an HLS livestream is 'lag'.

720p@30fps, 2000kbps, x264 Veryfast encoder. Use a Game Capture source for the game.

Do you have any tricks for getting game capture to capture DBD? I just get a black screen unless I use monitor capture.

You may have to run OBS and the game as Administrator in some cases. You can also enable 'Anti-cheat compatibility hooking' in the Game Capture source properties. I do both by default, and GameCap grabs it just fine.

If you're on Win7, NEVER EVER USE MONITOR CAPTURE. If you have to, use a Game Capture of the DWM process, with Aero enabled.

[Compliant]

Figured out why game capture wasn't working! Had to go into the game capture options and enable anti cheat.

[FerretBomb]

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Originally posted by FerretBomb:

In-game or out of game in the OBS preview window?

Enable vsync in-game; most commonly that's caused by a game pegging the GPU, assuming nothing else will be using it, and OBS does. It's less than 1% load hit, for scaling/compositing and a few other features like colorspace conversion, but that can make some games freak out.

Otherwise, the most common cause is lazy people using Monitor Capture under Windows 7 (which is terribad and slow and should never be used), or turning Aero off for some idiotic reason.


Past that, would need to see a logfile from a live session. Help menu, then Upload and paste the link. Could also open a thread in the OBS Q&H forum, since most who hang out there to assist will likely have a better grasp on OBS than a random game forum.

My play is choppy ingame (making me lose when people are watching sadface).

VSync in DBD or VSync in OBS?

I'm using monitor capture because I couldn't get game capture to work, figuring that out is probably what I should be doing.

You can't turn vsync on in OBS. Well, you can through the GPU driver control panel I guess, but no. The game is the one using up the GPU, and vsync will help limit that. It sounds like it's probably the monitor capture though that's causing the problem. Stop using it. Turn VSync on too if it's not, but yeah.

[FerretBomb]

Originally posted by Corrupted:

Figured out why game capture wasn't working! Had to go into the game capture options and enable anti cheat.

Cheers, glad to hear it. :)