Twitch skipped frames
Author: r | 2025-04-25
When i watch twitch on my primary monitor, no frames are skipped When i watch twitch on my secondary monitor, frames are occasionally skipped (like 3-5 a second) I think this is
Twitch skipping frames. : r/Twitch - Reddit
#1 Hello guys. I recently bought a whole new system, and I have a question: is it normal that a Ryzen 3700X not being able to handle 900p@60 x264 slow preset?When I try to stream in 720p@60 x264 slow preset, it goes fine, no frame skippings. But when I try 1600x900 or 1920x1080, I get many skipped frames message in the Stats window, the "Skipped frames due to encoding lag", but CPU usage is not reaching not even 30% usage, according to the OBS Stats window. Very strange.I have a very capable M.2 SSD (signature for full PC specs), so I don't think it's the issue. I tried to record locally, same thing happens.In summary:720p@60 x264 slow preset = fine900p@60 x264 slow preset = skipped frames due to encoding lag1080p@60 x264 slow preset = skipped frames due to encoding lag1080p@60 x264 medium preset = fineNone of the above configuration reach 30% CPU usage.Is it a CPU limitation? Twitch limitation? Or OBS limitation? 2019-12-17 19-21-02.txt 31.6 KB · Views: 187 #2 Most likely a limit of how many threads FFMpeg can utilize for encoding. Your CPU has plenty of threads left over, but there's only so many that can be practically used for encoding. So the CPU utilization graph is not a complete metric for figuring out how slow a preset a CPU can use. #3 What you're seeing is correct for your CPU. I would not trust the OBS cpu usage report -- you'll find a much more telling view using Task Manager's performance tab.The 3700x cannot realistically do slow on anything above 720p60. You would need to jump up to the 3900x if you want that, and even then you'll encounter the occasional bit of encoding lag, even though it doesn't ever go above 70%.EposVox has a really good set of comparison videos specifically talking about the Ryzen 3000 series encoding capabilities for OBS, if you want to look those up. #4 Thanks for the responses, guys.I kinda managed it to stream at 1080p@60 slow preset by adding the x264 option "threads=16". But it has peaks of 80% CPU When i watch twitch on my primary monitor, no frames are skipped When i watch twitch on my secondary monitor, frames are occasionally skipped (like 3-5 a second) I think this is A PTZ camera and one or two iPhone cameras, plus screen capture from my external Macbook pro that's serving Keynote presentations to the sanctuary.And streaming at 1080p30 #9 I was getting skipped frames every time I launched internet browser with many tabs on version 27 in Windows 10. Changed to version 26 and did same with no skipped frames at all. #10 Spent the afternoon troubleshooting my situation (TERRIBLE CPU usage, skipped frames in rendering and encoding) and after downgrading to 26.1.2 (or whatever the last 26 version was) from 27.0.1 OMG the difference is insanely better. Upgrading to 27 was the root of all my problems confirmed. The difference in CPU usage, skipped frames rendering & encoding was like night and day. No idea what they did in 27 but boy I will not be going back up until they fix that. Admittedly my OBS scene set ups are v busy with a lot of scenes and media sources etc - but I would just say if you are having any issues on 27 relating to CPU usage stuff just roll it back to 26 - will save serious headaches. Thank god that's over.Comments
#1 Hello guys. I recently bought a whole new system, and I have a question: is it normal that a Ryzen 3700X not being able to handle 900p@60 x264 slow preset?When I try to stream in 720p@60 x264 slow preset, it goes fine, no frame skippings. But when I try 1600x900 or 1920x1080, I get many skipped frames message in the Stats window, the "Skipped frames due to encoding lag", but CPU usage is not reaching not even 30% usage, according to the OBS Stats window. Very strange.I have a very capable M.2 SSD (signature for full PC specs), so I don't think it's the issue. I tried to record locally, same thing happens.In summary:720p@60 x264 slow preset = fine900p@60 x264 slow preset = skipped frames due to encoding lag1080p@60 x264 slow preset = skipped frames due to encoding lag1080p@60 x264 medium preset = fineNone of the above configuration reach 30% CPU usage.Is it a CPU limitation? Twitch limitation? Or OBS limitation? 2019-12-17 19-21-02.txt 31.6 KB · Views: 187 #2 Most likely a limit of how many threads FFMpeg can utilize for encoding. Your CPU has plenty of threads left over, but there's only so many that can be practically used for encoding. So the CPU utilization graph is not a complete metric for figuring out how slow a preset a CPU can use. #3 What you're seeing is correct for your CPU. I would not trust the OBS cpu usage report -- you'll find a much more telling view using Task Manager's performance tab.The 3700x cannot realistically do slow on anything above 720p60. You would need to jump up to the 3900x if you want that, and even then you'll encounter the occasional bit of encoding lag, even though it doesn't ever go above 70%.EposVox has a really good set of comparison videos specifically talking about the Ryzen 3000 series encoding capabilities for OBS, if you want to look those up. #4 Thanks for the responses, guys.I kinda managed it to stream at 1080p@60 slow preset by adding the x264 option "threads=16". But it has peaks of 80% CPU
2025-04-19A PTZ camera and one or two iPhone cameras, plus screen capture from my external Macbook pro that's serving Keynote presentations to the sanctuary.And streaming at 1080p30 #9 I was getting skipped frames every time I launched internet browser with many tabs on version 27 in Windows 10. Changed to version 26 and did same with no skipped frames at all. #10 Spent the afternoon troubleshooting my situation (TERRIBLE CPU usage, skipped frames in rendering and encoding) and after downgrading to 26.1.2 (or whatever the last 26 version was) from 27.0.1 OMG the difference is insanely better. Upgrading to 27 was the root of all my problems confirmed. The difference in CPU usage, skipped frames rendering & encoding was like night and day. No idea what they did in 27 but boy I will not be going back up until they fix that. Admittedly my OBS scene set ups are v busy with a lot of scenes and media sources etc - but I would just say if you are having any issues on 27 relating to CPU usage stuff just roll it back to 26 - will save serious headaches. Thank god that's over.
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