Notifications-High CPU Usage/Dropped frames

[KBZ]

S.E.Live/OBS Multi-stream setup
Not sure what all is going on, but since the update of OBS, I have been getting this consistently.
I'm not using any CPU for encoding it's all set up for my GPU.
According to OBS Logs
My stream is currently experiencing massive performance issues because
my encoder is severely overloaded.
The stats window shows i' am losing a massive 61.0% of your frames due to encoding lag, causing your stream's output framerate to drop to an unwatchable 17.42 FPS (instead of your target 60 FPS).
I' am running AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU paired with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU. However, my log indicates that I' am likely forcing OBS to use x264 (CPU encoding) on an overly intensive preset, (which I' am not) or your encoder settings are misconfigured,( They are not) choking the video thread before it can render or output.
This has started since an update and
My GPU Encoder I use is set to see images.
Please help me with this issue. It just seems to be getting worse on each start up live stream.

 

[qhobbes]

1. The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature added in Windows is currently known to cause performance and capture issues with OBS, games and overlay tools. If you are having issues with performance or OBS freezing, we recommend disabling it via this screen or these instructions as a troubleshooting step. Be sure to restart your PC after disabling it.
2. One of your audio devices has a sample rate that doesn't match the rest. This can result in audio drift over time or sound distortion. Check your audio devices in Windows settings (both Playback and Recording) and ensure the Default Format (under Advanced) is consistent. 48000 Hz is recommended.
OBS Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Microphone (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Gaming (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 96000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Chat (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Stream (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
3. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render scenes (21.1%) and encode frames (51.1%) fast enough. It shows texture-amf-h264
and fallback-amf-h264 as the encoders, not x264.
Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene.

Enable Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit (60) that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage.

If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use.

Set the refresh rate on all your monitors to 60.

Please check our guide for ideas why this may be happening, and steps you can take to correct it: GPU Overload Issues.

4. Your log contains streaming sessions with dropped frames (0.8%). This can only be caused by a failure in your internet connection or your networking hardware. It is not caused by OBS. Follow the troubleshooting steps at: Dropped Frames and General Connection Issues. You can try enabling dynamic bit rate (Settings, Advanced, Network) but that may not work with your plugin.
5. Make sure all of your plugins are compatible with OBS 33.0.1 and are up-to-date.

Provide a new log if still having issues.

 

[KBZ]

1. The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature added in Windows is currently known to cause performance and capture issues with OBS, games and overlay tools. If you are having issues with performance or OBS freezing, we recommend disabling it via this screen or these instructions as a troubleshooting step. Be sure to restart your PC after disabling it.
2. One of your audio devices has a sample rate that doesn't match the rest. This can result in audio drift over time or sound distortion. Check your audio devices in Windows settings (both Playback and Recording) and ensure the Default Format (under Advanced) is consistent. 48000 Hz is recommended.
OBS Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Microphone (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Gaming (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 96000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Chat (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
SteelSeries Sonar - Stream (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 48000 Hz
3. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render scenes (21.1%) and encode frames (51.1%) fast enough. It shows texture-amf-h264
and fallback-amf-h264 as the encoders, not x264.
Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene.

Enable Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit (60) that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage.

If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use.

Set the refresh rate on all your monitors to 60.

Please check our guide for ideas why this may be happening, and steps you can take to correct it: GPU Overload Issues.

4. Your log contains streaming sessions with dropped frames (0.8%). This can only be caused by a failure in your internet connection or your networking hardware. It is not caused by OBS. Follow the troubleshooting steps at: Dropped Frames and General Connection Issues. You can try enabling dynamic bit rate (Settings, Advanced, Network) but that may not work with your plugin.
5. Make sure all of your plugins are compatible with OBS 33.0.1 and are up-to-date.

Provide a new log if still having issues.

Thanks so much for responding. As far as the SteelSeries Sonar - Gaming (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device): 96000 Hz, I'm not able to change it to 48000 Hz like the rest. It's so weird, but I don't have the option anywhere to change it to match the rest. I have spent hours trying to figure this one out, couldn't never find how to, So i just left it. here are my options in both setting in my audio.
Regarding the Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature, I will try this option and see if it fixes my issue.
I should have enabled Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit due to it being a demo I was playing when I got a lot of these notifications today.
As far as my log that contains streaming sessions with dropped frames (0.8%).
That this can only be caused by a failure in my internet connection or your networking hardware, Well I do a cmd before stream and I check my hardware. Here are my images for cmd runs and internet speeds, hardware is always consistent.
My internet I have to say has always been rock solid and consistent.
My plugins (S.E.Live) is my only plugin I use with my OBS is compatible with OBS 33.0.1 and currently up-to-date.

 

[qhobbes]

While your internet speed may test as fast with speedtest.net, this does not mean that it is stable/consistent with twitch and YouTube.

A Windows ping uses 32 bytes. That's a lot less than than what your streams are configured to use.

Use TwitchTest to make sure that you are connecting to the best server for your location.

 

[KBZ]

Thanks for responds, I really appreciate you trying to help.
A lot of these things you have suggested I have already tried, I even went back in and verified that is what I have.
I did go in and toggled off my Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature in windows.
But even in the past I have also done that as well.
Also made sure I set my IP Family to IPv4 Only, because I know it had cause issues when set to default.
I had to change my main primary platform to Kick,
Because Twitch being my primary issues were worse. I had been using the twitch API test and the closest server was Ohio to me which was always stable, low ping, quality was always 100%.
But streaming told a different story in OBS logs and on the stats tabs.
I had even tried other servers, thinking it had maybe been that server, nope all the same results.
After a while i began to think OBS had a bug of false positives, due to all the issues it was saying I have, and it was just something with twitch causing the issues and not so much OBS.
But soon realize that wasn't the case so much after making Kick my primary, Still getting the same issues reoccurring.
When i tell you I have reconfigured OBS completely so many times, would be an understatement.
I had spent 52hrs trying to get a stream with no issues warnings, flags or dropped frames. without success.
I at that point thought surely it had to be S.E.Live the only other thing that could maybe cause issues.
So I spent 8hrs downloading OBS portable to my desktop, reset it up, no S.E.Live plugin at all, Twitch my primary live streamed same outcome. Dropped frames, freezes, disconnects/reconnects, and lag. warning of wrong encoder config, which was not right as I know how to config my settings. I know what my GPU was doing and how it runs.
So i did a clean 1 clean stream after that and it went back to same reoccurring logs findings.
So when i tell you I have been down more rabbit holes and videos at this point, I really mean I have.
I know I'm not the only one having these issues, I see them everywhere after i started looking for a resolution/alternative to my consistent reoccurring problem.
I could see this happening with someone with several plugins, or heavy co dependent software running in OBS.
But I don't have that issue, I have only 1 plugin and that is SELive.

 

[qhobbes]

1. Duplicate your existing Profile. Name it RESTREAM. Create a new Scene Collection (also named RESTREAM) with just one Game Capture source; nothing else.
2. Disable the S.E.Live plugin and restart OBS.
3. Go to Tools > Auto-Configuration Wizard > Optimize for streaming, recording is secondary [Next] and complete the process. Once it is done, do not change anything, close and restart OBS.
4. Go to restream.io and sign up for a free account. Connect your twitch and YouTube accounts to your Restream account.
5. OBS > Settings > Stream > Service > Restream.io; Connect with account or stream key.
6. Settings > Output > Recording > set Video and Audio Encoder to (Use stream encoder). [Apply] [OK]

Try doing a test recording of gameplay to see if the streaming settings work.

If still having issues, provide a new log.

@KBZ this method will also allow you to use Dynamic Bitrate since it's built into OBS so you can avoid dropping frames.