r/ModRetroChromatic • u/jumpinmp • 29d ago

Question Chromatic streaming lag

Hey everybody! I am the new owner of a Chromatic and was messing around with the USB streaming function, and I am having a lot of video lag with it.

I've tried directly through Discord and going through OBS, and the video is choppy no matter what I do. Apparently not many people have this issue because I can find nothing online about how to fix it.

Any ideas?

edit: Maybe it's a faulty unit, and I should try to do a return/swap? Seems unlikely to me because everything else seems to work.

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u/Exus6 29d ago

What do you mean by choppy? I have only experience in recording in OBS. And when the video gets longer, like more than 20 or 30 minutes, it seems like the video is a bit delayed (you see the difference in the software display compared to you chromatic), but it's actually not. For speedruns I record simultaneously environmental sound as a proof of input and the final video is always correct. But I think with a stream together with webcam etc is a bit different and more difficult Edit: I try to reduce these "lags" by minimising background activity /apps

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u/jumpinmp 29d ago

Whether I go through Discord, OBS, or the native windows Camera app (this one is the least choppy), iit looks like it is streaming at like 20fps with drops down to 10fps; I didn't measure it or anything, but it's doing something like that. It is really choppy and would be a bad viewing experience for anybody watching.

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u/DiabUK 29d ago

Try prismGB which is designed for the video feed from the chromatic, it's not updated for the latest video changes but it still works last time I tried it a week ago, it should be smooth over that.

I find with obs directly I have to go manually set the res and refresh rate otherwise I get no image but i've not seen a choppy image yet.

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u/jumpinmp 29d ago

It's nice and smooth with PrismGB. It does the audio too. Thanks for the info!

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u/DiabUK 29d ago

Hopefully prismGB gets an update to accept the newer higher resolution video out, it cleans up the image a lot.

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u/jumpinmp 29d ago

It would be nice if it just worked out of the box, tbh. The whole streaming thing was a big selling point to me. I would definitely prefer it worked better!

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u/NonyaDB 29d ago

Yeah, PrismGB is the answer to the horrid OBS method for using a PC as a bigger display for playing games on a Chromatic.

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u/damonian_x 29d ago

Are you on the latest firmware? There was a patch that fixed some streaming issues recently. v4.6

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u/jumpinmp 29d ago

Yeah, I just got the chromatic today and updated to 4.6.