OBS Making whole system slow

[Farmer Giles]

So, Ive tried to back insto streaming again, but its been stopped by a bug. 

Whenever i press preview or start to stream on OBS my whole computers starts to run slow, even windows starts to run slow, Now you might say my CPU is bad, but ive streamed fine before so it should stream good now, also only 30% of my CPU is being used. Also my internet is good enough as i used shadow play to test it  

I have my logs, but you can have them through private message!

My Specs are:

AMD 8350

EVGA 970 SC

16gb 2133 Mhz Ram

Just wondering, when i stream with shadow play, it dosent have any affect at all, im guessing it used part of the graphics card? Is there anyway i can get OBS to use that? 

 

[lionel]

Try using the NVENC encoder option in OBS 

 

[Vladic Ka]

What Lionel said. 

 

[Farmer Giles]

Okay So i started to use the NVEC Encoder, and anything on my second monitor starts to lag. But when its any program on the other monitor it works fine!

To add on to this, it is any monitor i am capturing starts to lag alot!

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[Farmer Giles]

Seems to be monitor capture lags my computer out so ill just use game capture from now on! 

 

[lionel]

I will keep looking into this for the moment though.

Or if you want to keep Aero enabled, use Window capture instead of Monitor capture. Whatever you do, never use Monitor capture with Aero enabled or it will be slow.

This is from the OBS board, but you cannot disable aero in Win10 
Source

You could alternativley set it to capture a specified area, i cant remember the exact setting name, but you can specify which part of the desktop you want to capture, great for capturing when playing on 3 screens in windowed fullscreen mode.

 

[Farmer Giles]

I will keep looking into this for the moment though.

This is from the OBS board, but you cannot disable aero in Win10 
Source

You could alternativley set it to capture a specified area, i cant remember the exact setting name, but you can specify which part of the desktop you want to capture, great for capturing when playing on 3 screens in windowed fullscreen mode.

I always play in windowed fullscreen so ill try it! 

 

[Vladic Ka]

Just switched to OBS studio and I'm loving it. 

Edit: The thing I love about studio is you can have all your games on one scene. IE whichever game is fullscreen. In normal OBS you needed multiple scenes which was a pain.

https://obsproject.com/estimator

This is a very good tool to work out bitrate and whatnot for stream optimisation. 

Look at me! Doing tech support and shit!

 

[Farmer Giles]

Just switched to OBS studio and I'm loving it. 

Edit: The thing I love about studio is you can have all your games on one scene. IE whichever game is fullscreen. In normal OBS you needed multiple scenes which was a pain.

https://obsproject.com/estimator

This is a very good tool to work out bitrate and whatnot for stream optimisation. 

Look at me! Doing tech support and shit!

Would you choose OBS studio over the normal OBS? 

5000 posts too Vlad!

 

[Vladic Ka]

Would you choose OBS studio over the normal OBS? 

Already completely swapped over. I have less stream lag now after watching them back. Before the video would jitter randomly. Studio mode is cool as well as you can live edit without viewers seeing it.

 

[Farmer Giles]

Already completely swapped over. I have less stream lag now after watching them back. Before the video would jitter randomly. Studio mode is cool as well as you can live edit without viewers seeing it.

Ill be switching over then  

 

[Farmer Giles]

So i downloaded OBS studio, and i tired to monitor capture, and it did in fact make my computer lag again. I remember upgrading my windows 10 the other day. Could this be something to do with it? 

 

[lionel]

So i downloaded OBS studio, and i tired to monitor capture, and it did in fact make my computer lag again. I remember upgrading my windows 10 the other day. Could this be something to do with it? 

I will keep looking into this for the moment though.

Or if you want to keep Aero enabled, use Window capture instead of Monitor capture. Whatever you do, never use Monitor capture with Aero enabled or it will be slow.

This is from the OBS board, but you cannot disable aero in Win10 
Source

You could alternativley set it to capture a specified area, i cant remember the exact setting name, but you can specify which part of the desktop you want to capture, great for capturing when playing on 3 screens in windowed fullscreen mode.

Why do I bother?

 

[Farmer Giles]

Why do I bother?

I was just stating! Ive been using the game capture source and it seems to be working pretty well!