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Macka09
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Hi guys. I’ve never streamed in my life and I’m trying toxins the best way to do it without ruining the gaming experience in terms of performance hits. My brother has been doing it lately but complaining of dropping lots of FPS. We have identical pcs really. Ryzen 5 3600xt, RTX 2070 Super, 32gb of ram with some nvme drives. I don’t believe he’s got a capture card so must be broadcasting some how. He’s decided to buy a Ryzen 7 5800x cpu hoping that helps with FPS whilst streaming? I’m not sure that’s the answer. Any advice or tips you could offer me to get it right would be great. Thanks. 

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A few things.

 

First, make sure you run OBS as administrator. Without this, windows treats it as a red headed step child and doesnt properly allocate resources. 

 

Second, make sure you use NVENC over 264 encoding. This will remove the load off your CPU and put it on dedicated hardware on your GPU that is built onto the GPU itself. 

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7 minutes ago, Macka09 said:

Cheers. Just asked my brother what he uses and he’s using stream labs? Any reason not to use that?

Streamlabs appears to use the Electron framework, which is a notorious CPU resource-hog. It's as bad as, or even worse than, running an entire second instance of Google Chrome for no reason - because that's quite literally what it's doing.

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Steamlabs is custom overlay/addon pack for OBS. Its popular for streamers because of addon collection, automations and overall making starting streaming bit easier.

 

So those things by @pythonmegapixel would be because it might handle stuff using browser source for stuff like follow etc. notifications.

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16 hours ago, Macka09 said:

This is all a bit beyond me I think. Lol

Well, for troubleshooting something like fps drops in game would require further knowing what game, settings and such. As it might not be directly related to streaming software running.

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