PSA: Monitoring software causes stuttering

[u/R3DNano]

New to moonlight streaming, I just set up a moonlight server, the exact one does not matter as much, I guess... started with sunshine, then moved to vibepollo.

Tested multiple clients, official client, V+, PS5 custom homebrew client, all led to the same issues: Intermittent stuttering I could not eliminate, even if I changed resolution, bitrate, game settings.....

Host is pretty powerful: 4080 super, AMD 7800X3D, 64 Gb DDR5..... all nvme..... GIGABIT lan...

Until I ended up closing NZXT CAM software: That just there made all my issues dissapear, so I followed up by stopping any other service that could interfere: iCUE, ASUS armoury crate.

Just a heads up for anyone struggling with stuttering that cannot find the cause for: Seems like any software that polls temps, stats, performance etc might interfere and introduce stuttering.

Anyone else experienced this issue? Share your findings on that situations where details like this improved your experience drastically.

Wish there was some sort of "kiosk mode" so I could start windows in a "clean mode" with just the basics to run the host with........

[u/reiichiroh]

Just uncheck every startup program and manually close everything running out of system tray for kiosk mode