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Xsplit Drops In-Game FPS from 300FPS to 40FPS

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.kv
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2332 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-18 17:20:44
March 18 2012 17:18 GMT
#1
WIthout Xsplit running, I get around 250-300FPS when I have Starcraft 2, Winamp, Skype running.

Once I start streaming, My FPS drops to 40FPS. Now I'm not asking to have it just to be 250fps but this is a significant drop in FPS and wanted to address this. I know it's not my settings in particular because if I use a third party-program like Dxtory my FPS is around 150-200FPS with that. The only downside and the sole reason I prefer the game source is because I can play in Fullscreen mode. I prefer fullscreen more than windowed version just because I feel like my mouse is more responsive. I play on a 1080p monitor but I have tried lowering my resolution even lower than 720p and I can't get at least 60fps.

Preset: Xsplit Default
Quality: 7
VBV Max Bitrate: 900
Audio Format: 44.100 KHz 16bit stereo
Codec: AAC LC
Audio Bitrate: 12800
Resolution: 1088x612
Framerate: 40

Pretty sure I might be able to upgrade my quality or preset but I just want to figure a way to get at least 60fps in game without completely destroying the quality of my stream. My settings in-game are on all low except my texture (High).

CPU: i5-2500k
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB)
Graphics Card: HD 6790 1GB 256-bit
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Internet Connection: 20MB Download/1.5MB Upload
Varyak
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany14 Posts
March 18 2012 17:25 GMT
#2
You should lower you xsplit framerate to 30. I have more or less the same pc specs and i have with higher xsplit settings way more ingame fps (about 100).
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.kv
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2332 Posts
March 18 2012 17:43 GMT
#3
I've done that yet it still drops to 40-50fps in big engagements
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
March 18 2012 18:04 GMT
#4
You get the performance hit from running xsplit and capturing screen (through any method) or just from encoding (local record and/or stream)?
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Jophess
Profile Joined August 2010
United States95 Posts
March 18 2012 18:24 GMT
#5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Gamesource lock the game's frame rate to what you set in Xsplit?
.kv
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2332 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-18 18:51:22
March 18 2012 18:48 GMT
#6
On March 19 2012 03:04 Cyro wrote:
You get the performance hit from running xsplit and capturing screen (through any method) or just from encoding (local record and/or stream)?


streaming is when I get hit with this.

On March 19 2012 03:24 Jophess wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Gamesource lock the game's frame rate to what you set in Xsplit?


I don't know. I guess I'll try to stream with 60fps and hopefully I get that framerate.
Edit: I don't think it does that. I think you may have got that mistaken with VSync in your SC2 settings.
Jophess
Profile Joined August 2010
United States95 Posts
March 18 2012 19:14 GMT
#7
On March 19 2012 03:48 .kv wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 03:04 Cyro wrote:
You get the performance hit from running xsplit and capturing screen (through any method) or just from encoding (local record and/or stream)?


streaming is when I get hit with this.

Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 03:24 Jophess wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Gamesource lock the game's frame rate to what you set in Xsplit?


I don't know. I guess I'll try to stream with 60fps and hopefully I get that framerate.
Edit: I don't think it does that. I think you may have got that mistaken with VSync in your SC2 settings.


Just tried it myself, and while it doesn't lock my fps, it definitely tanks it hard. Streaming with gamesource dropped my fps by over half. Without gamesource it only dropped ~5-10.
.kv
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2332 Posts
March 18 2012 19:27 GMT
#8
Ok well I went back to Dxtory.

And what I just found out is that Dxtory does fullscreen mode as well so I'm happy. My FPS is now 150-200fps in-game while streaming
truen
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
5 Posts
May 03 2012 02:48 GMT
#9
On March 19 2012 04:27 .kv wrote:
Ok well I went back to Dxtory.

And what I just found out is that Dxtory does fullscreen mode as well so I'm happy. My FPS is now 150-200fps in-game while streaming


is this while playing in fullscreen mode or windowed fullscreen?
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