Hello!I'm currently experiencing issues with streaming Dead Space Remake to Twitch via OBS. When I'm not streaming, I can run the game at 1440p max settings with DLSS set to Quality and experience minimal stuttering and average 80-100 FPS. When I stream, the game stutters a lot more (especially during cutscenes) and I average 30-40 FPS. Most interestingly, there will be periods of time where my framerate will jump back up to that 80 FPS area, but eventually some in game event will tank the framerate and stay at that low range continuously. Adjusting the in game settings, even down to low, does not seem to substantially improve the situation.In OBS, when using NVENC encoding, the encoder will get overloaded and the stream will stutter significantly. Switching to x264 encoding makes the stream run smoother but I'm still experiencing the previously mentioned issues. Lowering the output resolution from 1080p to 720p alleviated the issues a little bit but not substantially.My specs:CPU: i7-8700kRAM: 32 GB DDR4GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra GamingStorage: 1 TB (2 x 500 GB RAID 0) Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSDI was wondering if this is a known issue and/or are there additional steps I can take to improve performance while I'm streaming? I'm thoroughly enjoying the game and really want to stream it, but the significantly reduced and inconsistent performance is making that difficult.Thank you for any and all help!

@d00d00d00m Same here. 19-12900k and a rtx2070S. Frame rates drop to single digits and becomes unplayable when trying to stream.

My problem is alittle different the game does stutter quite a bit, but it get worst when trying to stream and my streaming bitrate drops to 0 and crashes OBS. Other than that it's playable off stream. Playing at 4K usually 70-80 fps, but framerate tanks during cutscenes.PC SpecsCPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 4.9GHzRAM: 32GB DDR4 4000MHz Corsair Vengeance RGB ProGPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GMB: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570Storage: 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVME, 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVME, 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD, 3TB Toshiba HDDPeripherals: Gigabyte M28U 4K 144Hz Monitor, Gigabyte M28U 4K 144Hz Monitor, Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT, Corsair Nightsword RGB Gaming Mouse, Cosair Scimitar RGB ELITE, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro Camera, Logitech C920 Camera, Elgato Stream Deck XL, Elgato 4K60 Pro Capture CardCooler: NZXT Kraken Z73Power: Super Flower 1000W PSU

Likewise: I have an RTX 3060Ti and a 5900x. Without OBS I can play 60fps at 1440p, High settings, DLSS Quality. Although there is still stutter even though there is a shader compilation step when you first start the game.Trying to stream it OBS system usage absolutely cranks and the game has to be put to low settings, DLSS Ultra Performance, at 1080p (seriously) to get anywhere near 60fps. And the performance, even then, is very inconsistent.This is only with the Dead Space remake as well. I tested, just to make sure, with Spider-Man and Doom Eternal (with settings maxed) and OBS's system utilization is far more reasonable and consistent.

@d00d00d00m Yes but ideally you shouldn't have to do any of that! Whatever the problem is, it's something really fundamental about the game. If you look at Task Manager while Dead Space is running (in my experience) GPU usage in OBS shoots up to 60% in OBS which simply doesn't make any sense based on the reasonable, tuned settings I normally use.Some part of the two pieces of software are not talking to each other correctly.

@JumboJenkins @SourceBlood @Ai_X3R0 I was able to review my stream and saw that when stutter was bad it also caused the audio to become desynced from the game temporarily. The cutscene in the morgue with the captain transforming was a stutter fest. I might need to try cutting the stream framerate to 30 instead of 60, and tuning some other OBS settings. I might try locking the framerate in game as well…

Stuttering/low fps when streaming Dead Space Remake

15 Replies

Ai_X3R0
3 years ago
@d00d00d00m Same here. 19-12900k and a rtx2070S. Frame rates drop to single digits and becomes unplayable when trying to stream.
SourceBlood
3 years ago
My problem is alittle different the game does stutter quite a bit, but it get worst when trying to stream and my streaming bitrate drops to 0 and crashes OBS. Other than that it's playable off stream. Playing at 4K usually 70-80 fps, but framerate tanks during cutscenes.
PC Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 4.9GHz
RAM: 32GB DDR4 4000MHz Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro
GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10G
MB: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570
Storage: 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVME, 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVME, 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD, 3TB Toshiba HDD
Peripherals: Gigabyte M28U 4K 144Hz Monitor, Gigabyte M28U 4K 144Hz Monitor, Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT, Corsair Nightsword RGB Gaming Mouse, Cosair Scimitar RGB ELITE, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro Camera, Logitech C920 Camera, Elgato Stream Deck XL, Elgato 4K60 Pro Capture Card
Cooler: NZXT Kraken Z73
Power: Super Flower 1000W PSU
JumboJenkins
3 years ago
Likewise: I have an RTX 3060Ti and a 5900x. Without OBS I can play 60fps at 1440p, High settings, DLSS Quality. Although there is still stutter even though there is a shader compilation step when you first start the game.
Trying to stream it OBS system usage absolutely cranks and the game has to be put to low settings, DLSS Ultra Performance, at 1080p (seriously) to get anywhere near 60fps. And the performance, even then, is very inconsistent.
This is only with the Dead Space remake as well. I tested, just to make sure, with Spider-Man and Doom Eternal (with settings maxed) and OBS's system utilization is far more reasonable and consistent.
d00d00d00m
3 years ago
@JumboJenkins @SourceBlood @Ai_X3R0 I was able to review my stream and saw that when stutter was bad it also caused the audio to become desynced from the game temporarily. The cutscene in the morgue with the captain transforming was a stutter fest.

I might need to try cutting the stream framerate to 30 instead of 60, and tuning some other OBS settings. I might try locking the framerate in game as well…
JumboJenkins
3 years ago
@d00d00d00m Yes but ideally you shouldn't have to do any of that! Whatever the problem is, it's something really fundamental about the game. If you look at Task Manager while Dead Space is running (in my experience) GPU usage in OBS shoots up to 60% in OBS which simply doesn't make any sense based on the reasonable, tuned settings I normally use.

Some part of the two pieces of software are not talking to each other correctly.
S1xthsense
3 years ago
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dead-space-remake-gets-a-25-free-performance-boost-with-resizable-bar/
Extra Performance is always nice, but unfortunately it doesn't fix the traversal stutter. This really needs to be patched out.
SourceBlood
3 years ago
Tried the ReBAR fix, there was some performance gained, but it was immediately lost opening certain doors, and the this time the game crash and locked up the system. So in effect it made it worst.
Trykes
3 years ago
I just wanted to share my experience. Here the problem is NVIDIA Broadcast, I use the noise and echo filter on the mic and also the background removal on the camera, when they are on, the stream turns into chaos, I even had a Blue Screen once, but if I close Broadcast its totally fine even with RTAO, DLSS and everything. My specs are R5 5600, 16 ram, RTX 3060ti
Batrick_Najm
3 years ago
Okay, so this was happening to me as well. For me, the problem was I was trying to run the game in Borderless mode, and I was recording with OBS on my 2nd screen. But that was causing the game to randomly stutter. As soon as I switched to Fullscreen the stuttering was mostly gone.
Also, I went with the settings from this website.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
3 years ago
Hi Everyone,

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