CallMeMysterious

First off, sorry if I posted this in the wrong topic. I figured since it's somewhat relevant to CPUs, it should be fine. Also sorry for any formatting issues, I'm posting from my phone. So I was looking into getting an external capture card (probably an Elgato HD60S) because when I try to game at over 60fps while streaming from the same computer, OBS has problems rendering frames. I'm pretty sure it's because the GPU is working really hard to render the game then process some of those frames and encode them. Either way, processing the frames on a different computer will allow me to run the game at over 60fps and offload the encoding and rendering to another computer, in this case I'm thinking about my laptop. Before I decide wether or not to buy a capture card, I'd want to know if my laptop's CPU could handle rendering and encoding the data. As you probably guessed, the CPU in my laptop is an i5 8250u. It's a quad core eight thread CPU but it's a mobile chip and I think its limited to 15 watts. Its base clock is 1.6 GHz with a turbo of 3.4 GHz but I usually see it around the mid to high 2 GHz range during heavier tasks like rendering a video in Vegas Pro 15. So given that info (I really don't have a way to test it because it doesn't have dedicated graphics) do you all think I could stream with a capture card using my laptop to encode? I'd probably use H.264 because I've had bad experiences with QuickSync (Intel HD encoder)

Ok, I was able to fix it and I understand why it wasn't working (probably, correct me if I'm wrong) The main issue was the GPU afterall. It was being hit too hard by the game itself to render the frames for OBS to encode. I was able to solve it by capping my framerate. First off, I game on a 144hz monitor and I can push out 120 ish on medium settings in R6S. I previously tried that while I was using NVENC and it didn't work. I switched the game to borderless so I could easily tweak OBS settings and that's where the problem arose. The vsync option doesn't always work in borderless. I was actually running at 120 ish FPS and therefore straining my GPU just with that task (pushing as high a framerate as possible) and it left very little for OBS to use to render before encoding. I switched back to exclusive fullscreen and capped my FPS to 60 and boom, it worked. Almost flawlessly. I still dropped a few frames when loading into games but it still worked beautifully. TL;DR I had to switch to exclusive fullscreen to enable a framerate limit. That limit freed up GPU resources to OBS and then it worked flawlessly. Now I am testing encoding profiles to see how far I can push it. I can do ultrafast, superfast, and veryfast just fine with a 90fps cap in game. I'm gonna see if I can do "faster." **EDIT 1** here is a link to the stats window with x.264 ultrafast with a 90fps cap. All but a few of the frames missed due to render lag were encountered while loading into a match. Pretty damn good. **EDIT 2** faster was too much, framedrops in game and here are the stats for it

NVENC (stream constantly at ~20FPS) x.264 (stream also ran at 20FPS constantly, no more lock-ups because I reset the task to normal priority)

I should have enough time to try it before I have to head out. Hold on

Wouldn't downscaling just add more strain on the CPU?

Lately I've been wanting to get into streaming R6S to twitch but I've been having a whole host of problems. I've tried using both OBS Studio and Shadow Play but both have similar results (surprisingly) I started off just googling a bunch of stuff related to my issues and stumbled across this gem, but even that didn't help. In that thread, a person mentions a stats tab in OBS and according to it, I'm having problems with "Frames missed due to rendering lag" so my stream is only outputting close to 30fps when my game itself runs at up to 100fps with medium settings. My specs are: Ryzen 5 1600, 16gb Corsair LPX @ 3000mhz,and a GTX 1060 6GB. In terms of network, I get 200 ish mbps down and 11 up. Note: I was using a bandwidth test so no one could watch the stream. For x.264 I used these settings For NVENC I used these settings This is what video was set to the whole time This is what advanced was set to the whole time This is what the stats tab looked like for x.264 This is what the stats tab looked like for NVENC (both of the stats were taken doing a hostage rescue terrorist hunt on house) With x.264 I noticed that my computer basically locked up multiple times, as in it stopped registering inputs but the video was still displaying too. Also the LED effects on my keyboard stopped moving. It also seems that this time there was a really high encoding lag. NVENC was much better in that regard but had more render lag than encoding lag. It sounds like a lot of people are having that problem, too. In terms of Shadow Play, I use custom settings. 1080p60 @ 6000kbps. That's really all it lets you customize. Gameplay was relatively smooth but the stream looked blocky and the framerate was choppy. Like OBS but less choppy framerate. I'm heading out in a bit so I won't be on right away to try recommended courses of action, but thanks for any help anyways.

Right now I do use a surge protector, but it's an older power strip. I was planning on going with the EVGA one anyway, ordering now.

I'm looking at getting a new power supply because my current one is slowly dying. It's ripple currents have gotten too high. I so far have two in mind, both 550w and 80+ Gold. One is the EVGA SuperNova 550w G3 and the other is the Corsair RM550x. Online, it sounds like both have pretty low ripple currents, but is the Corsair unit really worth the $20 more? The exact reason for the new power supply is on my last post here. Long story short, ripple currents are making my computer unstable.

After doing some digging and looking on other forums, it sounds like of all things it's a power supply problem. I have an EVGA 600B and it sounds like it has a rep of having problems after a couple years. It has been a few years so I shouldn't say I'm surprised. From what I found, the problem is that when installing a video driver, the card temporarily goes into a P0 power state which is the highest power draw mode, and also explains why the fans ramp up around then too. The problem comes with ripple currents or something similar. Basically, the power supply isn't providing "clean" power and is having slight fluctuations. In my case, it was fluctuating a bit too much and power dropped elsewhere and caused the system to power cycle, force stopping the driver install and corrupting it. I'm looking into buying a new power supply.

But that's the only GPU in the system, I didn't get an APU. Plus if I go into driver details or dxdiag with the Microsoft basic display adapter installed, it shows it's a 1060. I'll try re seating the GPU and it's power cable after I get some sleep.

I forgot to add, Running Windows 10 64 bit, Version 1803 Build 17134.112

The title kind of says it all. I recently upgraded to a Ryzen 5 system and now whenever I try to install my GPU drivers (GTX 1060 6gb) it starts working, then blackscreens.That part is normal, installing drivers has always done that for me. But the problem is that a few seconds after it bluescreens, the computer power cycles. Then when Windows boots (or tries to) it crashes with error code Video Scheduler Internal Error. I know it has to do with only the GPU because I can install other drivers just fine. It always crashes on the GPU driver. So far I've tried multiple versions of the driver as well as running DDU first. Unfortunately whenever the computer crashes due to that problem, it doesn't make a minidump file so I can't upload it to a website to analyze it. Other than that one problem the system is otherwise completely usable. I've also tried using device manager to automatically look for drivers, and when it does grab the GPU driver it does the same thing. Any help is greatly appreciated. If you need any more info just ask.

I just started recording stuff on my switch with an old HDMI capture card I found laying around and it doesn't have a mic input. It's a cheap capture card that just records to a flashdrive, and can't be connected to a PC so I can't use OBS or something to record video and audio so I have to use another device and manually sync the audio (me talking) to the video. The only other mic I have is a studio mic I use for my PC and it would be a pain to set it up in my living room with my phantom power supply (although I have a Behringer U-Phoria UM2 which does phantom power over USB) and my scissor mount. I would set it up in my computer room if I could but my desk is barely big enough for what I use it for. So the idea that popped into my mind is what about a pair of earbuds with a good inline mic? I have Beats Tour 2 Earbuds that I won in a contest awhile back but their inline mic isn't that good. So are there any earbuds or headphones with a good inline mic that won't cost $100? Or would I be able to use my USB C OTG adapter to connect my UM2 to my phone and record my studio mic? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have an older Z97 Motherboard (GA-Z97X-SLI) and it has an M.2 slot. I've been thinking about getting a new SSD since my original one is older and is only 120gb. On the motherboard's website, it says it can do up to 10Gb/s on its M.2 slot. So could I use an NVMe SSD like this one or should I use a slower SATA M.2 Drive like this one? I would like the WD Black simply because it will be faster but I'm not sure if it will work with my motherboard. Also, I bought this motherboard used from Microcenter awhile back and it didn't come with a screw for an M.2 Drive. If I were to buy an M.2 SSD, would it come with a screw?

Looking for a group to play some BO3 Zombies with. I have The Giant and the Zombies Chronicles DLC Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/calamity1911/ Go ahead and add me and let me know if you want to play

i5 4590 16gb DDR3 1600mhz crucial ballistx RAM a Gigabyte Z97X SLI motherboard and a Cryorig H9i. I just don't know how much to sell it for, so what do you all think? I am thinking maybe $200 to $250 or is that too much for my stuff?

Awhile back I won some Beats earbuds in a raffle and they work mostly fine on my LG G5 but only the actual earbuds work on my laptop. They are the Beats Tour 2 (not where I bought them, just a good image) They have an inline mic on the back of the inline controls. Neither the controls or the inline mic work on windows 10, but the mic works just fine on Lubuntu when I dual booted. This is my laptop, and in case you don't want to look, the specs are an i5 8520U, 8Gb DDR4 (not sure of the speed), and a 1tb hard drive. Windows version 1709 build 16299.309 I think that it is the actual layout of the poles. I remember reading awhile back that apple uses a different layout than android and everything else, and beats is owned by apple. If that is the case, why does it work in Lubuntu? Also would there be like an adapter to get it to work (either a USB card or an actual 3.5mm jack with the poles re wired) Any help is greatly appreciated since my laptop has a crappy built in mic

I have a laptop with an Intel core i5 8250U and I was wondering if there are any modded graphics drivers for it. I already checked PHDGD and they don't have it so I don't know where else to look. I game on this laptop every now and then, and it is alright. The Intel UHD 620 iGPU can do 900p medium just fine but some games I need to drop the resolution to 720p or 1024x768 So I don't really need modded drivers, but I want a little bit more performance. And before anyone asks, I already did all the default performance boosts, like setting the power mode in windows to maximum performance when plugged in (which is about half the time) and I did the same in the Intel control panel.

I think I've had it for 3 years now and I have used it across like 4 builds (minor upgrades besides my finished gaming PC) and I never have had a problem with it. I would recommend it, but for my next build I might get one of their gold rated power supplies like this one Mostly because it's semi-modular but the efficiency boost will be nice

Part list here All of those prices are manual because I bargain hunted for them. It worked out really well if I do say so myself. The motherboard was used, bought from Microcenter for like $65 BUT was missing an I/O shield and the USB 3 header was damaged. I fixed the header by carefully bending back a couple bent pins. The CPU was on sale for $145 at the time (or somewhere around there) I kind of had to buy the case, my old one was micro atx and the Z97X-SLI is an ATX board. Kind of regret not spending more on the case as it was missing a screw and standoff for the upper left corner. I got the SSD from Best Buy ages ago, so I estimated the price The 1TB Western Digital I bought with my own money and the Seagate drive my dad gave me because he said, "It's broken. If you can fix it, you can keep it." so I did just that. (Bad partition) The RAM was in my last build before the prices went up, about $65 a stick (I bought them separately) The GTX 1060 was on sale for $200 ish on amazon but it isnt the FTW+, just the model with an ACX 3 cooler To be honest, I don't remember how much the PSU costed so I estimated based on its current price The monitor was a gift but I added its price anyways I bought the keyboard and mouse with my own money (and a few keycaps broke about 4 months after getting it, the left control key, escape key, and right arrow key) The Samson headphones were given to me from my dad as well. (he didn't like them because they were open back) The Aokeo mic was bought because I had some money in my amazon account with no real reason behind it, but it sounds awesome according to my friends. I also bought a couple more blue LED fans for the front and back mounts because it already came with one blue fan (I would've preferred red LED fans but oh well) All in all, this PC was an awesome deal and performs really well in the games I play. I don't have exact numbers, just what I saw in the framerate counters. Later I might come back with exact numbers Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: around 80fps average at very high with no AA at 1080p League of Legends: 200+fps pre-minions (for whatever reason it drops after they spawn and has low GPU usage) around 100fps after at highest settings with AA at 1080p PUBG: 80 ish FPS average, high/very high settings, medium AA, low post processing, low foliage, ultra view distance

**EDIT** Sorry, initially misunderstood your comment.

I have an i5 4590 and a single GTX 1060 In the future, I plan on making a video of me testing the performance of something like 2x GTX 950s or 760s or whatever I can get my hands on in SLI. Would a M.2 drive come with a mounting screw or should the motherboard have came with one?

I have an older Z97 Motherboard from Gigabyte and it has an M.2 slot. I looked on the product website (look up GA-Z97X-SLI) and it claims it provides PCIe lanes, but not how many it does. "...providing users PCI-Express connectivity for SSD devices..." It rates the max bandwidth of the M.2 port as 10Gb/s so maybe it supports NVMe. I am asking because I am looking into getting a M.2 SSD. (duh.) Specifically a Western Digital Blue/Black (M.2 SATA3/M.2 NVME) 250gb Blue: https://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-250GB-SSD-WDS250G1B0A/dp/B073SBV3XX/ Black: https://www.amazon.com/Black-512GB-Performance-SSD-WDS512G1X0C/dp/B01MS6BYJD/ I see on the black drive's sticker that it uses 4x PCIe 3.0 Lanes and I don't know if my motherboard can give that many lanes to the M.2 Slot So should I get the WD Blue or Black? I could get the 2.5" SSD too... Also, I bought my motherboard used from Microcenter awhile back and it didn't have an M.2 screw so do M.2 Drives come with them or would I have to find another screw to hold it down

I'm just wondering, could having the HDDs being hot swappable cause the issue?

Lately I noticed that my PC has trouble waking from sleep mode. I know this happens a lot with Windows 10, but I want to see if there is a solution. When I go to put it to sleep, it goes down fine and wakes up fine the first time. Then the second time, it kind of bootloops. When I wake it up via wake on lan or by pressing the power button, it tries to boot but fails. The HDD Activity LED starts pulsing and one of my two hard drives (probably my used WD Black 2TB drive from 2014) starts clicking in time with it. Then if I move my mouse or click or anything, its LEDs blink too, but not in time although at a regular rate. Then, if I hold the power button to do a hard reset, (reset button does nothing in this state) it boots up just fine (although not from the state it was at before sleeping). This has never happened before, and I would really like to use Sleep mode to save power while I'm not using the PC. I usually stream games using nvidia's gameshare (and a neat android app called Moonlight Gamestream, link here) in freetime in my classes so sleeping can save on power. It has a Wake on LAN option which works within like 30sec for the first wake, but it goes back into the loop the second time. My current specs are: Intel Core i5 4590 Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI 16gb Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600mhz (downclocked to 1333mhz for stability reasons [don't ask]) EVGA GTX 1060 ACX 3.0 Cooler (no SC or SSC or FTW etc.) SanDisk SSDNow 128gb SSD (boot drive) Western Digital 1tb Blue 7200rpm HDD Western Digital 2tb Black 7200rpm HDD (used, dated 2014) EVGA 600B PSU and if it matters, corsair strafe keyboard (non-rgb) and a corsair sabre rgb mosue NOTE: I also tested hibernation as well as sleep. It went into the loop 1st time when waking to go into hibernate mode.