Stuttering and Lag ONLY while streaming?

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    Strange occurrence going on for me with Sea of Thieves.

    When I play off-stream, I can have settings at Mythical with uncapped frames and run into no issues. No lag, no stutter, nothing.

    However, when I stream Sea of Thieves, I get horrible lag/stutter when I get near outposts or during the 'introduction' of islands. This is often represented by the steering wheel getting a mind of it's own; at least, the sounds and sights in-game give that impression; once the lag/stutter ends, the wheel is pretty much where it was before the event happened. This happens enough to be quite frustrating while streaming.

    This happens regardless of whatever settings I use in Sea of Thieves (save vsync, which is the only one I have not tried) or in OBS or Streamlabs OBS (30 vs. 60fps, 1080 or 720p, etc.). I experience no issues of this kind streaming any other game with OBS or Streamlabs OBS. This makes me think there's some sort of strange interaction between Sea of Thieves and streaming going on, yet I don't have a high technical knowledge of things.

    I am at work, and not in front of my computer, so I don't have all the technical specs, but I do know it's an i5-something, a Nvidia GTX 1070, and 16GB of RAM. Also, Windows 10, if that makes a difference. If there's other information that is needed to help solve this conundrum, please let me know! I enjoy this game, and enjoy streaming my time solo and with others in game, but this stuttering and lag is making it very hard to do so.

    Thanks!

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  • TheJellydonut78
    Marauder

    @gulox2 streaming get really intensive. It could be your computer specs but I doubt it. More likely that you have a slower internet upload speed and streaming is using a large portion of it.

  • Kashaarafall

    Streaming is processor focused. When you use OBS you use around 6% to 17% depending on stream settings of your processor and granted that is with my settings and I use an I7 7700k 4.2, so you just have to see if you're using more than your processor can take. Open a monitor or task manager and watch the CPU usage.

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    When I have looked at task manager while streaming and playing, if often shows SoT usign the most memory and CPU.

    OBS is usually at 15% or below, from memory.

    I suppose that it only happens in certain situations in-game, and not consistently, is what it most confusing; I wonder if there was an option to turn off island/outpost 'introductions', if it would make a difference. Those seem to be the most common factor with all my lags and stutters.

  • WarmedxMints
    Marauder
    Insider

    Try turning you shadows down to cursed. Best guess is your cpu is bottlenecking at that point due to load. Lowering the shadows to cursed should reduce the load a fair bit.

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    @warmedxmints Thanks I will take a look at that for sure!

  • Zalavaaris
    Marauder

    Streaming on an i5 can be rough. The i7s are really more ideal for that so you may have a cpu bottleneck.

  • Elexio
    Marauder

    @gulox2 Its been happening to me on console where I'll be walking and jump a foot ahead of where I was. Can't explain the lag because I'm hardwired and this is the only game I have issues in. :/

  • Elexio
    Marauder

    @elexio oh and I'm not streaming*

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    @zalavaaris Good to know as well. Just strange that this is the only game I've ever had an issue with. Easily do 720p with 60fps streams with any other game.

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    @elexio I also have a hardwire connection. it's so confusing! haha.

  • ERaaam
    Marauder
    Founder

    @gulox2 Everyones settings will be different but im streaming on a single pc with an i5 6600k -16gb ddr4ram and gtx 1070. My OBS settings are rescale output to 720p @30fps 2600bit rate using the x264 encoder. I'm playing @ 2560x1080 with a locked 72fps on a mix of mythical and legendary settings. My streams are pretty smooth and it still gives me overhead to run my chat, bots etc just fine. Maybe worth checking all your settings.

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    @eraaam Yeah, bitrate might be something for me to look at, hmmm. thanks for the other good idea!

  • ERaaam
    Marauder
    Founder

    @gulox2 also dont run chrome or any other web browsers when streaming, it can take like 20%+ cpu if you have a few tabs open. Try to keep it just to the game, obs and whatever bots you use.

  • gulox2
    Sailor

    @eraaam yeah, that's one of the reasons i'm seriously considering moving to Streamlabs OBS over OBS, because it has the alert dashboard and chat in the OBS program window. Should hopefully decrease the memory load known as Chrome from the mix. :D

  • ERaaam
    Marauder
    Founder

    @gulox2 yeah that's 1 way to do it. I'm personally using player.me for overlays and alerts and adding that as source but Streamlabs is great too. Good luck, happy streaming. :D

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