8bitTheologian
New Member
Hello all,
I've beaten my head against this for several hours now, and I'm hoping someone can save what little remains of my sanity.
I recently moved from Pop! OS to Linux Mint 22.1. Everything seems to be running similarly or better. I copied over my scenes from the previous install, and OBS saw them largely without issue. However, I am having weird frame rate issues. One of the reasons I changed is so that I could use the obs-vaapi plugin with my AMD 6600XT. The latest version of Pop! OS is based on Ubuntu 22.04 and doesn't have the necessary dependencies. Now that I'm on a system based on Ubuntu 24.04, the plugin loads properly and I can see all the associated options.
After getting everything configured, I tried a stream to Twitch, and my viewers reported frame rate issues. I played around with different encoders: FFMPEG VAAPI, GStreamer VAAPI, and software. They all had at least some frame rate issues. Looking in the status bar, I noticed that OBS often reported FPS drops into the 50s (my stream was set to use 60FPS). I set about trying all the normal solutions: reduce bit rate, change rate control mechanism, change to 30FPS, etc. Even setting my steam to 500kbps and 30FPS as an extreme test, I still saw those frame drops. I tested with just recording, and there were frame drops in the recording. Resource usage isn't not an issue. I've kept a close eye on GPU and CPU usage, and both remain quite low.
I thought maybe the issue was with what I was capturing (a RetroArch window), so I changed the renderer and FPS. No change. Eventually, I noticed that those FPS drops still happened when OBS wasn't streaming or recording. Just sitting idle, OBS would still show my FPS being inconsistent even while on a blank scene. At this point, I'm baffled. I feel like I've twiddled very knob I can twiddle. Games run flawlessly with no frame drops, which makes me think it isn't a hardware issue. Any insight would be very much appreciated.
Exasperatedly yours,
8bit
I've beaten my head against this for several hours now, and I'm hoping someone can save what little remains of my sanity.
I recently moved from Pop! OS to Linux Mint 22.1. Everything seems to be running similarly or better. I copied over my scenes from the previous install, and OBS saw them largely without issue. However, I am having weird frame rate issues. One of the reasons I changed is so that I could use the obs-vaapi plugin with my AMD 6600XT. The latest version of Pop! OS is based on Ubuntu 22.04 and doesn't have the necessary dependencies. Now that I'm on a system based on Ubuntu 24.04, the plugin loads properly and I can see all the associated options.
After getting everything configured, I tried a stream to Twitch, and my viewers reported frame rate issues. I played around with different encoders: FFMPEG VAAPI, GStreamer VAAPI, and software. They all had at least some frame rate issues. Looking in the status bar, I noticed that OBS often reported FPS drops into the 50s (my stream was set to use 60FPS). I set about trying all the normal solutions: reduce bit rate, change rate control mechanism, change to 30FPS, etc. Even setting my steam to 500kbps and 30FPS as an extreme test, I still saw those frame drops. I tested with just recording, and there were frame drops in the recording. Resource usage isn't not an issue. I've kept a close eye on GPU and CPU usage, and both remain quite low.
I thought maybe the issue was with what I was capturing (a RetroArch window), so I changed the renderer and FPS. No change. Eventually, I noticed that those FPS drops still happened when OBS wasn't streaming or recording. Just sitting idle, OBS would still show my FPS being inconsistent even while on a blank scene. At this point, I'm baffled. I feel like I've twiddled very knob I can twiddle. Games run flawlessly with no frame drops, which makes me think it isn't a hardware issue. Any insight would be very much appreciated.
Exasperatedly yours,
8bit