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[darbstew]

This hits more than one category. I'm educated but not well educated. I am trying to live stream what ever game i am playing to Facebook. i have some shuddering issues. i found out it was due to high CPU usage. Easy solution, i know. but i have a few questions.

First lets get Specs up in the air. 

I7-7700K

MSI z270 Tomahawk

16GB corsair vengence DDR4 -3600

Geforce GTX 1060 6GB

 

Not the best PC out there but until just now i was really happy with it. 

i use my Rebel t6 as my webcam so i use the EOS program and resize a window in OBS to display that. Simple game capture for my games and ETC.

My question is, I have the Elgato HD60S, if i use that as my game capture screen instead will that reduce the amount of encoding OBS has to do? or does the Elgato Program do the encoding and im just going in a circle? 

Is overclocking going to be an option for me? (watercooled-yeah yeah i know but i bought this before Linus was all like actually air is boss) 

if i choose to upgrade to a i7-9700k will that be enough? 

[chowbaaron]

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but i have a few questions.

So what are they?

[darbstew]

Just now, chowbaaron said:

So what are they?

i accidentally hit Tab then Enter and prematurely posted it, its edited now. 

[darbstew]

1 minute ago, NZgamer said:

So what games are you playing?

Right now, APEX and Warzone...and house flipper. 

[LogicalDrm]

What are your streaming settings? Like bitrate, which would be most important. Your CPU shouldn't have any issues with streaming, shouldn't go over 60% I think.

 

So you have Rebel T6 connected with HD60S? Or directly somehow (this was bit hazy)? If you are using HD60S there, and Elgato software, then you are encoding it twice. You shouldn't need to have Elgato software running, as HD60S should be available as video source directly in OBS. So if you are encoding it twice, thats probably your main issue.

[darbstew]

2 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

What are your streaming settings? Like bitrate, which would be most important. Your CPU shouldn't have any issues with streaming, shouldn't go over 60% I think.

 

So you have Rebel T6 connected with HD60S? Or directly somehow (this was bit hazy)? If you are using HD60S there, and Elgato software, then you are encoding it twice. You shouldn't need to have Elgato software running, as HD60S should be available as video source directly in OBS. So if you are encoding it twice, thats probably your main issue.

 

 

I connect my Rebel T6 with the Cannon software. the EOS utility, i do the "live shooting" and then use OBS to capture that window. i am currently not using the elgato. I was wondering if i used the Elgato would it help with reducing CPU load

[LogicalDrm]

56 minutes ago, darbstew said:

 I connect my Rebel T6 with the Cannon software. the EOS utility, i do the "live shooting" and then use OBS to capture that window. i am currently not using the elgato. I was wondering if i used the Elgato would it help with reducing CPU load

No, using Elgato software is pretty pointless. Your CPU is more than enough for encoding even while gaming. And you have option to use NVENC too. So if CPU is at high usage, you have issue somewhere else. I would say try with NVENC too since thats option. Also, those are really low settings. I can run higher setting on much lower laptop CPU without issues. You can easily bump bitrate to 3000kbps for 720p30, 4500kbps for 720p60/1080p30. Probably to all the way too.

[darbstew]

8 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

No, using Elgato software is pretty pointless. Your CPU is more than enough for encoding even while gaming. And you have option to use NVENC too. So if CPU is at high usage, you have issue somewhere else. I would say try with NVENC too since thats option. Also, those are really low settings. I can run higher setting on much lower laptop CPU without issues. You can easily bump bitrate to 3000kbps for 720p30, 4500kbps for 720p60/1080p30. Probably to all the way too.

So, once i got home from work i tried something a friend suggested. he said to try streaming to Twitch to see if that made a difference. and it did. i was getting no shuddering like i was before. i kept my settings the same, however my CPU usage was still up there. it got up to 90% and warzone being a large chunk of it. i have my settings at 1080p settings at 60 FPS. what is causing this problem while trying to stream to facebook? and how can i fix this CPU problem of mine? 

[LogicalDrm]

9 hours ago, darbstew said:

So, once i got home from work i tried something a friend suggested. he said to try streaming to Twitch to see if that made a difference. and it did. i was getting no shuddering like i was before. i kept my settings the same, however my CPU usage was still up there. it got up to 90% and warzone being a large chunk of it. i have my settings at 1080p settings at 60 FPS. what is causing this problem while trying to stream to facebook? and how can i fix this CPU problem of mine? 

Have you checked what actually is using your CPU? Warzone itself could be the issue, it being buggy and poorly optimized. With FB streaming there might be network issues on FB side of things. I don't know more, I only stream to Twitch and lately Youtube only.

[darbstew]

9 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Have you checked what actually is using your CPU? Warzone itself could be the issue, it being buggy and poorly optimized. With FB streaming there might be network issues on FB side of things. I don't know more, I only stream to Twitch and lately Youtube only.

I have another thing to try again tonight. Once I get home from work. I found out a lot of PC users have problems with warzone and I found a video with solutions to that. So once I try it will post another update.