Yes, there have been threads on this but I have to get to work and would rather come home to answers right away. Sorry if this is a bother.
Anyway, now that I can stream, that's what I've been trying to do. I can get the quality looking pretty good and consistently smooth for the viewers, but regardless of which options I set it to, I will eventually experience pretty bad FPS drops. In TF2 I'll go from around 400 FPS to around 60-70, maybe lower. Other games this is similar, just at different numbers.
AMD Phenom II x6 1550t
AMD HD Radeon 5770
4GB RAM
Not sure what other specs I have to list for this, but those are what I figured I would need to put. As I said, I've tried various options with the settings. I'm also streaming solely with OBS, at least at the moment unless streaming only with OBS is fine.
I don't mind sacrificing quality if need be, but if possible I'd like to keep it at pretty good quality.
http://stage.results.speedtest.comcast.net/result/270105802.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2784766380.png
Dunno if these are necessary, but here you go.
Yes, there have been threads on this but I have to get to work and would rather come home to answers right away. Sorry if this is a bother.
Anyway, now that I can stream, that's what I've been trying to do. I can get the quality looking pretty good and consistently smooth for the viewers, but regardless of which options I set it to, I will eventually experience pretty bad FPS drops. In TF2 I'll go from around 400 FPS to around 60-70, maybe lower. Other games this is similar, just at different numbers.
AMD Phenom II x6 1550t
AMD HD Radeon 5770
4GB RAM
Not sure what other specs I have to list for this, but those are what I figured I would need to put. As I said, I've tried various options with the settings. I'm also streaming solely with OBS, at least at the moment unless streaming only with OBS is fine.
I don't mind sacrificing quality if need be, but if possible I'd like to keep it at pretty good quality.
[img]http://stage.results.speedtest.comcast.net/result/270105802.png[/img]
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2784766380.png[/img]
Dunno if these are necessary, but here you go.
Lower your in-game resolution. I lowered mine from 1920x1080 to 1600x900 and all the sudden I can stream just fine.
Lower your in-game resolution. I lowered mine from 1920x1080 to 1600x900 and all the sudden I can stream just fine.
I'm at 1280x1024. Should I still lower it?
I'm at 1280x1024. Should I still lower it?
I lowered it and it worked as far as I know. Thanks!
I lowered it and it worked as far as I know. Thanks!
For some reason TF2 takes up a lot of CPU processing power for me regardless of video settings (even the viewport stuff) and entirely because of resolution. I made it 720p and then I could stream fine at 48FPS regardless of my video settings. It's shitty that a game from 2007 is being bottlenecked on a CPU from 2007.
For some reason TF2 takes up a lot of CPU processing power for me regardless of video settings (even the viewport stuff) and entirely because of resolution. I made it 720p and then I could stream fine at 48FPS regardless of my video settings. It's shitty that a game from 2007 is being bottlenecked on a CPU from 2007.
if you're going from 400 to sub-100 erratically, bruteforcing your FPS with graphics changes to never drop that low seems like an unreliable solution. The only thing I can suggest is making sure your computer's clean, closing other programs, and trying to think of anything that could be occasionally demanding CPU load, eg the classic antivirus re-checking TF2's files as they constantly change in-game.
trying to plain squeeze more FPS out of TF2 is a hellhole of patient experimentation and consideration being rewarded with disappointment, confusion, and negligible gains. I don't recommend walking that path.
if you're going from 400 to sub-100 erratically, bruteforcing your FPS with graphics changes to never drop that low seems like an unreliable solution. The only thing I can suggest is making sure your computer's clean, closing other programs, and trying to think of anything that could be occasionally demanding CPU load, eg the classic antivirus re-checking TF2's files as they constantly change in-game.
trying to plain squeeze more FPS out of TF2 is a hellhole of patient experimentation and consideration being rewarded with disappointment, confusion, and negligible gains. I don't recommend walking that path.
i usually try to have any cpu hungry programs/processes closed when gaming in general. next time i stream i'll check more thoroughly, though.
i usually try to have any cpu hungry programs/processes closed when gaming in general. next time i stream i'll check more thoroughly, though.
use cpu affinity. tie 3 cores for tf2, 3 cores for obs. programs like prifinity v2 or process lasso will work well.
use cpu affinity. tie 3 cores for tf2, 3 cores for obs. programs like prifinity v2 or process lasso will work well.
i used process lasso and i thought it worked but a bit after i started getting this fps problem again
i used process lasso and i thought it worked but a bit after i started getting this fps problem again
process lasso expires after a month and disable certain features. Perhaps give prifinitty v2 a try. what settings did you use on process lasso and what was your cpu assigning like?
process lasso expires after a month and disable certain features. Perhaps give prifinitty v2 a try. what settings did you use on process lasso and what was your cpu assigning like?
was i supposed to use certain settings? all i did was tie 3 cores to obs and tf2 each
was i supposed to use certain settings? all i did was tie 3 cores to obs and tf2 each