Hi, all. I feel like this started happening after the last two or three NVIDIA updates. I've been streaming for around three years and have never had rendering and encoding lag until now. Here's the log from my last stream: https://obsproject.com/logs/ApHY6eeRBo2q737K
My CPU usage during the stream was only like 16% at max, and my GPU usage was around 44%. I was only streaming a game on my SNES, so it's not even anything super taxing on my system. I used to be able to keep everything in OBS at max: preset at slowest, tuning at high quality, multipass mode at two passes, profile at high, look ahead and adaptive quantization on...everything. I never got encoding lag. Now I'm getting it in every single stream and my CPU isn't even overloaded. I keep dropping the quality of things and it doesn't stop the lag. I've lowered the preset to as low as medium, tuning to low latency, profile at main, and turned off look ahead and adaptive quantization, but the lag persists, and I refuse to keep dropping the quality of my streams lower and lower in a vain and apparently useless attempt to stop lag that shouldn't even be happening given that nothing is being overloaded from what I can tell, especially because dropping the quality isn't making any noticeable difference. I don't understand where this is coming from. I'm getting no network lag at all, so it's not my Internet connection. It's just rendering and encoding lag.
I'm a streamer who strongly believes in putting out the best quality I can, so this is really driving me crazy. Please help me. Let me know if you need any more system information from me and I'll provide whatever you require. I'm not very knowledgeable in computer systems, so I might be leaving out info that could be obviously needed to get to the root of this issue; just say the word. Thank you.
My CPU usage during the stream was only like 16% at max, and my GPU usage was around 44%. I was only streaming a game on my SNES, so it's not even anything super taxing on my system. I used to be able to keep everything in OBS at max: preset at slowest, tuning at high quality, multipass mode at two passes, profile at high, look ahead and adaptive quantization on...everything. I never got encoding lag. Now I'm getting it in every single stream and my CPU isn't even overloaded. I keep dropping the quality of things and it doesn't stop the lag. I've lowered the preset to as low as medium, tuning to low latency, profile at main, and turned off look ahead and adaptive quantization, but the lag persists, and I refuse to keep dropping the quality of my streams lower and lower in a vain and apparently useless attempt to stop lag that shouldn't even be happening given that nothing is being overloaded from what I can tell, especially because dropping the quality isn't making any noticeable difference. I don't understand where this is coming from. I'm getting no network lag at all, so it's not my Internet connection. It's just rendering and encoding lag.
I'm a streamer who strongly believes in putting out the best quality I can, so this is really driving me crazy. Please help me. Let me know if you need any more system information from me and I'll provide whatever you require. I'm not very knowledgeable in computer systems, so I might be leaving out info that could be obviously needed to get to the root of this issue; just say the word. Thank you.
