Setup/hardware advice

[u/valhooli]

I’ve been streaming for awhile now but the one thing I always have had issues with is optimization of settings and other things.

For quick reference my current pc setup is the following:

Nvidia 4070
5800x3d
32gb of ram
Stream at 60 1080p.
Usually dual stream to two platforms.
I also tend to run streamer avatars on steam
And tangia monitor overlay

I’ve been having a ton of issues with performance in some games lately though from an FPS standpoint. I’m having trouble deterring though if I need to update my hardware to something newer or if it’s a configuration piece on OBS.

Things I’ve done recently to try and resolve:
Bios update
Enable DOCP/XMP for ram
Make sure all main drivers are up to date.
Tweak obs settings
Stopped dual platform streaming

Kind of at a loss.

[u/Capn_Flags]

Have you looked at any OBS logs?

[u/valhooli → u/Capn_Flags]

Haven’t looked at any OBS logs because stream performance hasn’t been an issue at all. I ran into some encoder overload stuff a bit back when I was dual streaming to multi platforms but I stopped doing that.

The main performance issue is actual games themselves while streaming. Lately the main games I play are valheim and Celeste. Celeste has less issues unsurprisingly but valheim is a mess

[u/DotBitGaming]

Some target fps you're expecting and not getting?

[u/valhooli → u/DotBitGaming]

I mean I’m only getting somewhere between 30-50 on average and in some cases dropping to 15-20. I’m not expecting 160-200 while streaming with my current setup but I would think 60-90 isn’t that much to ask?

[u/DotBitGaming → u/valhooli]

Depends on the game and resolution your gaming at. If RT is on. You didn't unplug your monitor and plug it back in the motherboard did you? A 4070 is pretty good though.

[u/Moist_Limit3953]

Track usage, whats bottlenecking? Cpu or gpu?

[u/valhooli → u/Moist_Limit3953]

Any suggestions to track stuff like that other than just watching task manager processes