EPTHelp me optimize my Xsplit Settings - Page 2
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
Changing preset has no major (if at all) effect on ingame performance for me unless i max out CPU (which does not happen at fast at 1280x720 and 30fps, and OP has far superior CPU) and i was of the impression that slower presets were more important as a quality scale (even if a bad one) when you couldnt throw high bitrates at the video to make it look decent easily. x264 also seems to most efficiently use CPU at the medium preset (default on many encoders), above that for me it will leave some threads idle and the rest at 30-70% usage often (in offline encodes, where the encoder has all CPU resources) and that behaivour seems to carry over to Xsplit, at Medium or lower it will use every thread given to it and be more consistent, but above it will not (leaving them idle). If you are not maxing out CPU and cant use those cores anyway (with sc2 only utilising ~1.5 cores) then why not push preset down? I havnt done testing on a 3770k @4.2-4.5ghz but im almost certain you would be able to pull off 1280x720@30fps@medium without having a major effect on game performance in sc2 compared to veryfast. If in doubt you could do testing with affinity to hold back CPU usage, but lower presets than veryfast/faster should still be very achievable i think | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
EDIT: mystery solved; my system is behaving normally. XSplit can't use more than 4 or 5 cores at veryfast preset when streaming 720p. Slower (better quality) presets or higher resolutions will result in more cores being used because there's more work to be done. But CPU usage is also much lower when on uncapped FPS. If you tell x264 to encode a 3000 frame video as fast as possible, it wont max out the CPU cores you give it unless your preset/resolution combo is stressful enough i think. Even if you were to use affinity to prevent xsplit using sc2's cores, you would see that effect AFAIK | ||
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Spray
United States402 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
On August 29 2012 19:22 Cyro wrote: But CPU usage is also much lower when on uncapped FPS. If you tell x264 to encode a 3000 frame video as fast as possible, it wont max out the CPU cores you give it unless your preset/resolution combo is stressful enough i think. Probably you have a disk bottleneck. I have no such problem getting x264 to use all available CPU. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
On September 02 2012 16:57 R1CH wrote: Probably you have a disk bottleneck. I have no such problem getting x264 to use all available CPU. On veryfast with a low resolution stream? If its a disc bottleneck im hitting it pretty hard with SSD | ||
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raybasto
United States151 Posts
Starcraft 2 runs alot smoother but when I play Dota 2, I still get in game delay. How do my Xsplit settings look now, and what can I change? Also, how are my ingame settings looking for both as well? Thanks for all the help! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/op9JG.png) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UgmIU.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/19b85.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Bm32Y.jpg) | ||
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R1CH
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