Livestreaming

[Lays]

I'm streaming in 1080p on twitch.tv  with the "Fast" preset, 9 quality, 4000 bitrate, and a 4500 buffer bitrate. (xsplit)

 

The game I was playing was at 90fps, I was streaming at 60fps. Why was it lagging on the stream? I dont understand :s

 

I have 12~mbps upload, so I can't imagine that's an issue..

[mvitkun]

I'm streaming in 1080p on twitch.tv  with the "Fast" preset, 9 quality, 4000 bitrate, and a 4500 buffer bitrate. (xsplit)

 

The game I was playing was at 90fps, I was streaming at 60fps. Why was it lagging on the stream? I dont understand :s

 

I have 12~mbps upload, so I can't imagine that's an issue..

were you playing online?

[Maskot]

it's not you, it's twitch.

[Lays]

were you playing online?

 

 

I tried playing cod 4+ crysis 3, both were laggy as hell.. I don't understand why. even with crysis 3 on LOWEST settings.. And it seemed as if my second graphics card wasn't kicking in. (SLI is enabled, I double checked, but one card was like 55 celsius and the other was only 38)

 

But yesterday w/o livestreaming I was playing crysis 3 5760x1080 at absolute max settings, with 60 + fps so I don't get what the problem is lol

[mvitkun]

I tried playing cod 4+ crysis 3, both were laggy as hell.. I don't understand why. even with crysis 3 on LOWEST settings.. And it seemed as if my second graphics card wasn't kicking in. (SLI is enabled, I double checked, but one card was like 55 celsius and the other was only 38)

 

But yesterday w/o livestreaming I was playing crysis 3 5760x1080 at absolute max settings, with 60 + fps so I don't get what the problem is lol

did you try allocating only the hyperthreaded cores to xsplit?

the game and xsplit could be fighting over the physical cores.

[Maskot]

it's your CPU then, it has to process the video and game.

 

I tried playing cod 4+ crysis 3, both were laggy as hell.. I don't understand why. even with crysis 3 on LOWEST settings.. And it seemed as if my second graphics card wasn't kicking in. (SLI is enabled, I double checked, but one card was like 55 celsius and the other was only 38)

 

But yesterday w/o livestreaming I was playing crysis 3 5760x1080 at absolute max settings, with 60 + fps so I don't get what the problem is lol

[Lays]

did you try allocating only the hyperthreaded cores to xsplit?

the game and xsplit could be fighting over the physical cores.

Do you know how to do that? Oh here's a link http://www.twitch.tv/darrenlays/b/419795524 Go to like.. 2 Minutes or so.

EDIT: for the cod 4, go to like 8 mins

Also I need to change my mic settings later and get that sorted out when I finally start streaming.

[Lays]

it's your CPU then, it has to process the video and game.

 

 

How is it that a 3930k can't keep up with that? Is that like a SERIOUS amount of stress?

[mvitkun]

Do you know how to do that? Oh here's a link http://www.twitch.tv/darrenlays/b/419795524  Go to like.. 2 Minutes or so. 

 

 

Also I need to change my mic settings later and get that sorted out when I finally start streaming.

ummmm.....don't feel stupid....sit down for this. :P

 

open task manager.

find xsplit in processes.

right click on xsplit.

there should be an option like "set affinity"

and allocate core #4,5,6,7 to xsplit.

then click apply/ok

 

if your on windows 8.

under task manager go to the details tab.

right click the xsplit option or options.

and click set affinity.

and allocate core #4,5,6,7 to xsplit.

then click apply/ok

[Lays]

ummmm.....don't feel stupid....sit down for this. :P

 

open task manager.

find xsplit in processes.

right click on xsplit.

there should be an option like "set affinity"

and allocate core #4,5,6,7 to xsplit.

then click apply/ok

 

if your on windows 8.

under task manager go to the details tab.

right click the xsplit option or options.

and click set affinity.

and allocate core #4,5,6,7 to xsplit.

then click apply/ok

 

Shouldn't their be 6 threads to allocate?  

 

Edit: I've never had to do anything with the hyperthreading before so I'm just trying to figure all this crap out lol

[Kayn]

streaming 1080p at 60 with a fast preset does take a lot of CPU power. Going from very fast to fast is around doubling the encoding the CPU has to do.

[mvitkun]

Shouldn't their be 6 threads to allocate?  

 

Edit: I've never had to do anything with the hyperthreading before so I'm just trying to figure all this crap out lol

there should be 12.

i7 3930K has 6 cores and 12 threads.

games will use 4 cores.

xsplit can use anything.

 

so I'm advising that you allocate 2 physical cores and 2 logical cores to xsplit.

basically allocating a core i3 to streaming only.

 

feel free to allocate more,this just frees you up so that should you need to open more stuff you have the freedom to do so.

[Lays]

there should be 12.

i7 3930K has 6 cores and 12 threads.

games will use 4 cores.

xsplit can use anything.

 

so I'm advising that you allocate 2 physical cores and 2 logical cores to xsplit.

 

o rite

[Lays]

streaming 1080p at 60 with a fast preset does take a lot of CPU power. Going from very fast to fast is around doubling the encoding the CPU has to do.

 

 

Should I use very fast? I'm new to streaming and I really don't know much about the optimal settings lol :s

[Kayn]

you can try very fast and see if it will help which I think I might and try lowering the FPS from 60 to 45 and see if that will help. Try faster since you went from very fast to fast which is a two preset skip and since you have an 3930k it should be able to handle that.

[Lays]

you can try very fast and see if it will help which I think I might and try lowering the FPS from 60 to 45 and see if that will help. Try faster since you went from very fast to fast which is a two preset skip and since you have an 3930k it should be able to handle that.

 

 

I can stream on fast/medium with lower tier games, but the higher ones like crysis 3 it falls behind it seems. on 720p @ 60fps it has no issues, but 1080p it really starts falling behind, so I'll try faster. Thanks :D