Streaming pc, but input lag

[Hi im Aurora]

hi everyone. i have fps drops and input lag when streaming pubg on the following PC. Any Advice would be appreciated. im playing the game on 1080p resolution everything on very low settings. 

 

Firstly this is my pc spec.

Ryzen 5 1600 oc 3.9ghz 1.325v stable

Msi b350 PC MATE

2x8gig 2400mhz ram (g-Skill Flare X)

Palit geforce gtx 1060 6gb

windows 10 pro

Asus Rog 180hz monitor 1080p , but using 144hz because of my GPU and Pubg is capped at 144fps.

 

Using obs studio for broadcasting. Here is my settings. Please be aware that i did set my affinity to using my last 6 threads(not sure its its the best but i set it to that)

 

Output Tab+

Encoder - X264

enforce streaming service encoder setting- !TICKED!

Rescale output- !Unticked!

Rate control- CBR

bitrate- 2400 due to internet limitation.

use custom buffer size - !Unchecked!

Keyframe interval- 2

CPU usage preset - Veryfast

profile -Main

 

Video+

Base Canvas-  1920 x 1080

output scaled- 1096 x 616

downscale- Lancoz

FPS- 60

 

Advanced+

Process priority -Normal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Blebekblebek]

Use NVENC instead x264

 

[Hi im Aurora]

14 minutes ago, Blebekblebek said:

Use NVENC instead x264

 

i do understand your opinion, but why ? 

NVENC quality isn't that good compared to X264.

 

I will try NVENC but i would like to know the cause of this issue. is it my CPU or my GPU? what is your opinion?

Thank you for feedback.

[Mattias Edeslatt]

26 minutes ago, Hi im Aurora said:

i do understand your opinion, but why ? 

NVENC quality isn't that good compared to X264.

 

Because PUBG and x264 both utilize many cores and my guess is that they fight each other. Put the load for encoding to the GPU would free upp processing power from the CPU.

 

You could try to set a fixed number of cores to PUBG and se if that solves the problem.

[Hi im Aurora]

5 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

 

Because PUBG and x264 both utilize many cores and my guess is that they fight each other. Put the load for encoding to the GPU would free upp processing power from the CPU.

 

You could try to set a fixed number of cores to PUBG and se if that solves the problem.

Thank you for responding.

 

So how much fps would i lose when i use NVENC? and do you mean i have to set an affinity like obs for pubg?

Also would this problem be fixed if i had to upgrade my CPU to ryzen 7 1700?

 

Your feedback is appreciated =)

[wildgg]

settings seem oke,

 

make sure you start up OBS as admin,

downscale to 1280x720p instead of 1096x616

do not use affinity

make sure you use Game capture! and not monitor capture for example

 

if this doesn't work try a older version of OBS, 

 

About NVENC, you get less quality but it is easier to stream with if your cpu can't handle encoding but this is not the case for you. 1600 should be fine with x264

R7 1700 can help you out for encoding and you can up the cpu preset if you want but i'd say it's not worth upgrading because 1. 1600 is fine, 2. with 2400 bitrate you won't see much quality gains if you upgrade the cpu.

 

[Blebekblebek]

It's not about the quality, even if you insist x264 will deliver better quality, with 2400 kbps bitrate I don't think your viewer will notice the differences (if there's any to begin with)

GPU encoding is far more superior than CPU encoding if it have the option, I don't see any point trying to use CPU for encoding (again, if the option are there)

 

The issue here is not the setting with obs, but rather the game it self, if you are running it without vsync and try to achieve 144fps while delivering 60fps stream, you are expecting too much even with ryzen, also it's PUBG, maybe with fortnite or any game with better optimization might do just fine.