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Screen freezes for the client some seconds into the game
Right, so i've been to stream to a friend, but we've been running into some issues. Either 1 of 2 things happen:

  • The steam overlay and the stream "overlap", making a mess in his screen, unable to alt-tab untill I shut off the stream.
  • The stream goes along just well for about 3 or 4 seconds, and then freezes. the audio keeps playing, and sometime he can use the keyboard, sometimes not.

To be honest, i have little idea what could cause this. I used the Beta for a short while, and it worked perfectly. My video drivers are up to date, and i believe my connection's working just fine, but i don't know. I checked out the logs and this is what i found:

[2019-11-28 17:36:28] "SessionStats" { "GameNameID" "Cuphead" "appid" "268910" "TimeSubmitted" "1574991388" "ResolutionX" "1920" "ResolutionY" "1080" "CaptureDescriptionID" "Desktop Placeholder + libyuv + NVENC H264" "DecoderDescriptionID" "DXVA2 hardware decoding" "BandwidthLimit" "15000" "FramerateLimit" "0" "Transport" "4" "SlowGamePercent" "0" "SlowCapturePercent" "0" "SlowConvertPercent" "0" "SlowEncodePercent" "0" "SlowNetworkPercent" "0" "SlowDecodePercent" "0" "SlowDisplayPercent" "0" "AvgClientBitrate" "15.825505256652832" "StdDevClientBitrate" "21.3701629638671875" "AvgServerBitrate" "4286.98974609375" "StdDevServerBitrate" "0" "AvgLinkBandwidth" "100000.0078125" "AvgPingMS" "8.99306488037109375" "StdDevPingMS" "0.518862128257751465" "AvgCaptureMS" "1.30133700370788574" "StdDevCaptureMS" "0.227371484041213989" "AvgConvertMS" "1.20670008659362793" "StdDevConvertMS" "0.29388090968132019" "AvgEncodeMS" "5.12564277648925781" "StdDevEncodeMS" "0.507912635803222656" "AvgNetworkMS" "6.26817846298217773" "StdDevNetworkMS" "6.39878702163696289" "AvgDecodeMS" "0.567355334758758545" "StdDevDecodeMS" "1.62930691242218018" "AvgDisplayMS" "9.97683238983154297" "StdDevDisplayMS" "2.40195941925048828" "AvgFrameMS" "26.251708984375" "StdDevFrameMS" "6.07367610931396484" "AvgFPS" "60.5835342407226563" "StdDevFPS" "10.8696203231811523" "BigPicture" "0" "KeyboardMouseInput" "0" "SteamControllerInput" "0" "TouchControllerInput" "0" "GameControllerInput" "0" "XBox360ControllerInput" "0" "XBoxOneControllerInput" "0" "PS3ControllerInput" "0" "PS4ControllerInput" "0" "OtherControllerInput" "0" "WasSpectating" "0" "RemotePlayTogether" "1" }

Far as i can tell, my ping's not too high, so i don't think that's the issue. Something of interest i saw was that this was sscattered all over the logs:

[2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Got control packet k_EStreamControlSetTargetFramerate [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Got control packet k_EStreamControlSetTargetBitrate [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Didn't get keyframe, resending lost data notification [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6902 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6935 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6936 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6937 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6938 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6939 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6940 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6941 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6942 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset [2019-11-28 17:36:34] CLIENT: Marking frame 6943 complete with status k_EStreamFrameResultDroppedReset

I can work out that many frames are being dropped, i think, so it could be a GPU Issue. My GPU is the GTX 1050Ti 3GB.

I've also tweaked with the Host and Client options, enabling and disabling hardware encoding, playing around with the resolution, and so.

Any help is appreciated!
Last edited by Regular Player; Nov 28, 2019 @ 6:22pm
Date Posted: Nov 28, 2019 @ 6:21pm
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