Dual cores will see little if any benefit, since SC2 will max one core and single threaded XSplit could easily max the other. If anything it might make things worse by having more threads competing for time slices.

Catyoul

France2377 Posts

May 08 2011 23:35 GMT

#25

Great find !

AskJoshy

United States1625 Posts

May 08 2011 23:40 GMT

#26

Woo, thanks for this R1CH. Gonna get testing on it right away, if it shows a great benefit then my stream will look sexier for IPL 2 qualifiers this week. =)

I have a Sandybridge 2600K processor, so this should show quite an improvement if all goes well. =)

Pabi

Germany126 Posts

May 08 2011 23:44 GMT

#27

Just tested it with Portal 2. Dont think will have much impact on SC2 for me, its running fine at 720p30fps. But Portal was really choppy before no it works just fine. really nice find =)

Raelcun

United States3747 Posts

May 08 2011 23:44 GMT

#28

This explains why Xsplit runs like SHIT on my computer I"m going to try this out.

Firkraag8

Sweden1006 Posts

May 08 2011 23:52 GMT

#29

I notice that you mention encoding and vods, is this purely for the offline recording or does this apply for live streaming as well?

LiteralZero

United Kingdom40 Posts

May 08 2011 23:54 GMT

#30

On May 09 2011 08:52 Firkraag8 wrote:
I notice that you mention encoding and vods, is this purely for the offline recording or does this apply for live streaming as well?

I'm going to assume it's for livestreaming too because its all about how it runs...

I think.

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

May 08 2011 23:57 GMT

#31

On May 09 2011 08:52 Firkraag8 wrote:
I notice that you mention encoding and vods, is this purely for the offline recording or does this apply for live streaming as well?

Both.

MrJargon

United Kingdom158 Posts

May 09 2011 00:01 GMT

#32

Just tested it out, 100% runs better however my cpu fan starting going off the charts, and i run an i7 which is fairly capable ive never heard the cpu fan before since it handles everything really well. However this time it went nuts i turned off my stream in fear of burning it out, any comments or ways to stop this?

Phayze

Canada2029 Posts

May 09 2011 00:02 GMT

#33

Nice to see that getting an i7 actually has some use with gaming related tasks. Thanks for this R1CH. Already got it installed. Now how often do you think we will have to replace the file? Do you think it's something that will have to be redone every time xsplit released a patch? I understand it's impossible to tell. I'm going to try setting the file to read only for now.

Pabi

Germany126 Posts

May 09 2011 00:05 GMT

#34

On May 09 2011 09:01 MrJargon wrote:
Just tested it out, 100% runs better however my cpu fan starting going off the charts, and i run an i7 which is fairly capable ive never heard the cpu fan before since it handles everything really well. However this time it went nuts i turned off my stream in fear of burning it out, any comments or ways to stop this?

If you have higher CPU usage it will heat up more and the cooler has more work. So if u have a Stock Cooler(they are most of the times pretty loud at full speed) and are annoyed by the sound just get a better cooler and your fine.

Phayze

Canada2029 Posts

May 09 2011 00:06 GMT

#35

Also probably prudent to mention that the first gen i7's run quite damn hot, and arent rated to as high of temperatures as some of the earlier quad core bins. I'd recommend a Noctua cooler for silence + performance if it ends up getting on your nerves. Perhaps try downloading a program like Coretemp, and monitoring the temperatures. The general rule is that 80 degrees is the worry threshold for first gen i7's.

Destro

Netherlands1206 Posts

May 09 2011 00:08 GMT

#36

rich, your talent is undeniable. Thank you so much, you are an asset to this site, community, and fuck it... the internet in general.

OnYourWifi

United States13 Posts

May 09 2011 00:14 GMT

#37

On May 09 2011 08:34 R1CH wrote:
Dual cores will see little if any benefit, since SC2 will max one core and single threaded XSplit could easily max the other. If anything it might make things worse by having more threads competing for time slices.

If they support hyperthreading (I think core2duos do?) they'll might still see some benefit. A hyperthreaded dual core CPU looks like 4 processors to the OS, though the speed benefit is not nearly as great as a true 4 core processor. And of course the particular algorithms used for video encoding, and their implementation, may not benefit from hyperthreading trickery.

BasementCat

Canada155 Posts

May 09 2011 00:14 GMT

#38

Dear R1CH,

Since I started casting/streaming games, I've been on an endless odyssey to find a x264 CUDA/OpenCL encoder. I asked the xSplit guys a while a ago and they said:

This is not currently something we can do right now. Currently there only few implementations of GPU based encoders and none of them seem to have good results. Currently we are using the x264 library for encoding. If x264 may at some point in time in the future support GPU based encoding this is something that we could redily provide support for.

Sauce: http://www.xsplit.com/requestDetails.php?requestID=2111&page_name=requests

Since they missed the new x264 encoder, maybe they missed a decent CUDA encoder. Have you heard anything?

- B.Cat

TelesisGQ

United States83 Posts

May 09 2011 00:18 GMT

#39

Simply amazing, great find!! I stream with FME, is xsplit superior to the quality and tweakability?

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

May 09 2011 00:22 GMT

#40

x264 which XSplit uses is superior to the MainConcept encoder used by FMLE. However XSplit lacks good diagnostic information such as FPS, input / output drops and buffer lengths which can make it hard to tell if your stream is working properly, as well as suffering from a bug which causes all input to become slightly blurry. XSplit is leaning towards being more tweakable now it supports ffmpeg style x264 presets.