Livestream Puts Heavy Strain on CPU, FPS Drops to 3.

[Chitanda]

System Specs:
GPU ~ ATI Radeon HD 5770
CPU ~AMD Phenom II X4 955
Ram ~ 8192 MB


Speed Test to NY, NY:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1970149463.png

LiveStream Settings:

Source ~ No Camera
Output Aspect Ratio ~ 1920 x 1080; 16:9
Target Frames ~ 30
Keyframe Intervals ~ 60


Problem:

I can stream "High + Medium + Mobile - 2632 Kbps" just fine with capped FPS (30), but when I attempt to stream "HD + Medium + Mobile - 3196 Kbps", my FPS drops to 3 and the output feed gets very choppy.

I only stream 1280 x 720 .mkv video files.

Please help,
Chitanda.

[ernielive]

Chitanda,

The 3196kbps of HD + Medium + Mobile is about 1mb higher than your upstream bandwidth to NY, which could be why you are experiencing these issues. I'd suggest sticking to the lower multiple bit rate options.

[Chitanda]

How does that explain the heavy CPU usage and the huge FPS drop?

[ernielive]

Which program are you using to play back the video files, and do you have any other software running when you are running Procaster? Also, if you are not using the latest version of Procaster, 20.3, I highly recommend upgrading for improved performance and stability.

[Chitanda]

Steam, Pu.ush, and AVG 2012.

I have the latest version and I use Media Player Classic.

[Cryptico]

I'm having same kinda problem myself, although the only problem is with the CPU usage. I can stream just fine with my settings, problem is that I simply cannot play any game with Procaster on (streaming). It hogs up almost all of my CPU.

CPU: AMD Phenom 2 x6 1090T ~ 3,1GHz
GPU: ASUS ATI Radeon HD 6870
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
RAM: 8GB DDR3

Only programs I'm running same time with Procaster are Steam, MSE and CCC. And yes, I'm using the versio 20.3

[mbaron]

Cryptico,

What quality preset are you attempting to stream with and which game(s) are you playing?

Matt
Livestream Support

[mbaron]

Originally Posted by Chitanda

Steam, Pu.ush, and AVG 2012.

I have the latest version and I use Media Player Classic.

Running each of these programs in additional to Procaster on your current system configuration would not be capable, as game play and live video streaming are both very CPU intensive applications. The maximum encoding preset without any other applications running with your setup would be HD/Med/Mobile.

Matt
Livestream Support

[Cryptico]

Originally Posted by mbaron

Cryptico,

What quality preset are you attempting to stream with and which game(s) are you playing?

Matt
Livestream Support

Games I'm trying to stream are, for example, DOTA 2 and Diablo 3. I've also tried streaming TF2 with same kind of results.


I'm using Custom quality preset with these settings:

VIDEO
Source: No Camera
Input: 16:9
Output Resolution: 1280 x 720 [LOCK RATIO (x)]
Output Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Target frame rate: 29,97 FPS [DEVICE RATE ( )]
Target bitrate: 350kbps
Keyframe intervals: 60


AUDIO
Target bitrate: 96
Sampling rate: 44100
Channels: Stereo

[ernielive]

Cryptico,

I would suggest lowering your resolution. Have you tried using Procaster's optimized gaming quality setting? If that resolution is too small for you, incrementally lower your custom resolution until you reach a number that doesn't put your CPU usage over.