Streaming slower in Windows 10?

[Gumbie]

I've noticed every since I upgraded my host computer to windows 10 the streaming shows a much worse frame rate and added choppiness to games. I rolled back to an image I took of Windows 8.1 when everything was fine and streaming went right back to being smooth. It was really noticeable in the Witcher 3 which ran great when I was streaming from windows 8.1 but really bad in windows 10. Has anyone else experienced this? If so were you able to fix it?

[NoSkillJones]

Were you using Quicksync for hardware enconding on the Host Machine? I suspect the Quicksync is not working well because of the drivers on Windows 10. For me DAI and GTA V are working great, much better than Windows 7 and on Windows 7 I was using Quick Sync. Maybe the Streaming through Software works better on Windows 10 for those two games. Maybe Intel will release a full compatible driver for Windows 10. I am not sure how the QuickSync works, but following the tutorial I should extend the videos to make it work fine, but on Windows 10 the system does not allow me to extend the videos. On Windows 7 I had no problems doing it. That's why I am not sure if it's really working fine and the Steam is ignoring the Hardware encoding and is using Software Encoding instead. Let's wait a couple of weeks to see if Intel releases a new driver. Sorry for my bad english.

[Thugnificent]

Yes streaming seems much slower (coming from windows 7 where it was perfect). Also it seems to lock up mouse and keyboard when on desktop via notepad or some other method.

[Thugnificent]

Ok try this. There was a bug in the latest nvidia drivers which didn't allow Steam to actually use hardware to stream. This was the reason the streaming seemed slow. There was a workaround back then which i think is still working with the latest drivers.

Open Nvidia experience and enable Shadowplay (you can set it to manual mode so that it doesn't interfere or starts recording games etc). Do this, and restart steam, it should be back to full speed like before. Seems to have fixed my problem for now. Only problem remains is that sometimes the mouse and keyboard locks up and have to restart the stream in order to fix but sometimes it doesn't get locked up. No idea why this is happening.

[Gumbie]

ill try it first thing tomorrow. thank you!

[alison]

This ShadowPlay thing didn't work for me. I have the opposite problem - my server is still Windows 8 and my client is now Windows 10. The graphics seem to stream okay, but the audio stutters so badly that games are unplayable. I've tried the audio stuttering fixes posted here (changing rate to match on client and server etc), and i've tried every combination of hardware encoding or not. Since the NVidia drivers updated on the server at exactly the same time as my client got Windows 10, i don't know who's to blame here. Anyone got any other tips? This really sucks, because up until last week i had was doing all my gaming streamed.

[Sampsonite]

Just thought I'd share my experience.
I have a tablet that had windows 8.1, and a host machine that is still windows 8.1; Steam Streaming worked amazingly.
Upgraded the tablet to Windows 10, and I have major lag that seems to build up, almost like it can only let so much data through at a time and then tries to play catchup.
I have no idea why this is, but will be looking for a solution and keeping an eye on this thread.

Good luck all.

[alison]

Ok, i fixed the problem on my 11" tablet. Here was the sequence of events, not sure which one was the silver bullet.

* set both server and client audio to 48k @ 16 bit
* enabled ShadowPlay on my server (manual mode)
* turned on hardware acceleration on both server and client
* moved my router wifi to channel 11 instead of channel 1
* set my router to only listen to 802.11n instead of b/g/n
* set my router to "performance mode" so the wired port that my server is on gets 1GigE instead of 100Mbit/s
* went to advanced windows update settings and disabled peer-to-peer/torrent updates
* waited for my 8" tablet to finish its window 10 update before trying again

My wifi on both tablets is consistently connecting to the router around 100-140Mbps now, and streaming is working better than it did before (no more occasional disconnects). In the end i think the trick was disabling peer-to-peer updates and waiting for the other tablet to finish its Windows 10 download, since that seemed to be spamming the wifi. Good luck!

Side note, Windows 10 really sucks on an 8" tablet. Desperately wanting my swipe gestures back. I wouldn't recommend the update till they fix tablet mode. Desktop mode on my work laptop is great, though.

[Gumbie]

Has anyone tried the new nvidia 355.60 drivers to see if the streaming is any better?