FPS problems during streaming
FPS problems during streaming
Hey everyone,
I've been streaming on my YouTube channel recently and noticed something interesting: the FPS in OBS often drops significantly, while the in-game FPS stays stable or even improves. Here are my current specs:
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Stock speeds)
- Stock CPU cooler
- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 @ 3000MHz (XMP enabled)
- MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Gaming X Trio (Stock speeds)
- 2x SATA SSD (1x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB – boot drive, OBS installed; 1x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB – game installation)
- Corsair RM750x Modular PSU
Stream settings in OBS (streaming to YouTube):
- Base (Canvas) Resolution: 2560x1440
- Output (Scaled) Resolution: 1920x1080
- Downscale Filter: Lanczos (sharpened scaling, 36 samples)
- FPS: 60
- Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC H.264 (new)
- Rate Control: CBR
- Bitrate: 9000 Kbps (upload speed is 25000 Kbps)
- Keyframe Interval: 2
- Preset: Quality
- Profile: high
- Max B-frames: 2
I use a static webcam overlay, a dynamic donation-ticker, and ofcourse alerts.
Here’s the link to my first livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZq7mEm...l=Giodinho
In this stream I disabled XMP, as it didn’t seem active, and RAM was running at 2133MHz. I initially thought upgrading the CPU would help, but when watching videos on the same processor during streaming, my concern shifted to whether the CPU wasn’t performing optimally. Notably, UserBenchmark shows the CPU is running well below its expected performance, even after enabling XMP.
I’m at a bit of a crossroads. Since I encode with NVENC and my in-game FPS only slightly decreases while streaming, compared to when it’s not streaming, I’m wondering what might be the problem. Thanks for your help!