FPS drop during OBS

-------I run during stream:

Streamlabs Chatbot. (Tried without, changes nothing)

Spotify. (Tried without, changes nothing)

OBS. (Settings optimized, tried with x264 and with nvenc, tried with lower bitrate and higher, tried with lower fps too. nothing alters the issue)

-------My process and issue path:

I start the game up, 60 fps.

I load in to a server, 55-60 fps.

~10 minutes in to streaming fps starts dropping, about 1fps per minute in lumps of 5-10.

(At this point the issue persists even when I have closed down all programs except the game and Origin)

When I hit about 20-24 I get off the server (official server btw) and in the Home Menu I still have the same fps, only some times I have 5-10 more tops.

I restart the game, still on 20-30 fps.

I restart Origin, still 20-30 fps.

I restart PC alltogether, 60 fps.

TAKE NOTE: FPS DOES NOT DROP INSIDE OF OBS, OBS STATES PERFECT WITHOUT FRAMEDROPS. FPS ONLY DROPS INSIDE THE GAME WHICH YOU CAN SEE USING CONSOLE COMMAND "PERFOVERLAY.DRAWFPS 1"

------These things is what I have tested, none has yielded results:

I have done memtest, no ram issues.

I have done GPU stresstest, no heat nor issues with performance.

I have reinstalled windows 7 and thus made sure drivers are all up to date, it actually made the event happen sooner during gameplay.

I have ofcourse gone through all the google tips.

I have checked with my ISP if they are blocking anything.

I have tried opening TCP ports as suggested.

I have checked bottlenecking on my pc specs.

I have tried running the game on lowest graphics.

I have heat checked.

The issue does not present itself in other games. CSGO, The Forest, Rust, Human Fall Flat, Ark Survival Evolved have been tested on.

------My specs and versions:

Tried with GPU driver 397 (latest) and 391(previous), no change.

OBS 21.1.0 64 bit and 32 bit has been tried with.

DirectX 11

Bios 1.13B0
Benq E2200HD DVI and Benq G2220HD drivers are WDDM 1.1

------Specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate.

MSI z97 Gaming 5 motherboard

Two MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 4GB graphic cards (Tested with and without SLI and only using one, tried that with both)
Intel Core i7-4790K CPU
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 32GB Ram.

Download speed 100Mps

Upload speed 100Mps

battlefield 1

29 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
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Its_Travis_199
Hero+
8 years ago
@Sgt_CHIKUN

Someone with a similar issue figured out that the problem was that DX12 was enabled.

You could check if that's your issue too. 🙂

Otherwise you could try to do a Clean Boot.
How to: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
Anonymous
8 years ago
I run dx11. dx12 has not been an issue.
i dont need to do a clean boot. i have a freshly installed windows and the issue existed previously to it and persists even after.
EA_Atic
DICE Team
8 years ago
Hey, @Sgt_CHIKUN do you have programs such as MSI afterburner installed or anti-virus etc. This is one of the reasons to see if there is program messing with Battlefield 1 hens the question if you can do a clean boot.

Do you only get this issues while streaming?

FPS deteriorating over time is something new, not something I have seen in BF1. Have you overclocked anything of your hardware?

/Atic
Anonymous
8 years ago
Yes I did suspect MSI afterburner for a while and tried without.

I start origin,
Launch game,
Start obs,
Engage stream,
Go in on a server,
Play,
Obs no issues, no frame loss,
Game starts getting frame drop starting after 10-15min gaming.
Game reaches 15fps,
I quit obs, frame still 15 in bf1,
I quit server, frame still 15 now on homescreen of bf1,
Quit game and start game up, still 15.
Quit game and origin, start all up still 15.
Restart pc all together, back on 60.

If I start any other game up during the status of 15 that other game is on normal 60 fps, thus not internet (isp) related.

No it's not overclocked.
EA_Atic
DICE Team
8 years ago
Hey @Sgt_CHIKUN Thanks for the brake down on what is happening!

So when its stuck in 15 FPS mode, how are temps and performance(usage), in other words how is the health of the PC?

This is a really odd issue. trying think on what you can do.

/Atic
Anonymous
8 years ago
I too was curious about that and it was one of the earlier checks I did. The temperatures, memory and CPU was as out always been. There were no anomalies. That's when I decided to stress test ram, gpu and thus also CPU.

After this I switched the gpus placement, tested with same result.
Tried with one GPU and then the other, tested with same result.

So I have found it is unrelated to hardware.
Hence my suspicion on game being the cause or if killer networking it's causing it. Though all my attempts have yielded the same 15fps over and over again. The only thing that has not been altered is game. Other than settings.
Carbonic
Hero+
8 years ago
@Sgt_CHIKUN wrote:

I run dx11. dx12 has not been an issue.

i dont need to do a clean boot. i have a freshly installed windows and the issue existed previously to it and persists even after.

The argument that you don't need to try a clean boot because Windows is newly installed doesn't work for me. If you have installed other software than Origin and Battlefield besides Windows you still need to do it to rule out all other applications and services that might be running in the background.

Besides that, you should probably also make sure it's not a memory leak. If the leak is in sections like the non pages pool area the memory can't get released again until you reboot the computer. I personally use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rammap for that.
Anonymous
8 years ago
Youre deliberately misunderstanding. You assume I didn't try by only having the issue showing thing installed. I did try with only the necessities. Let's not argue.
Carbonic
Hero+
8 years ago
Didn't misunderstand on purpose, you just wrote it a bit confusing so I genuinely misunderstood. I'm also a bit confused as to what "You assume I didn't try by only having the issue showing thing installed" means.

If you tried the clean boot did you check for the memory leak? A screenshot of the memory when the issue is occurring might help.