STREAMER/BLOGGER? Let's do both!
Figured I should start a post series called Streamblog where you can just read about streaming and everything related. I believe you have noticed that I have tried out streaming on 
So... It may happen that sometimes I am in need to blab about my streaming sessions as well and share everything that's on my mind about that. :D
FPS DROPS WHILE STREAMING
Anyway as I said in my previous post:
Yesterday when I tried to stream PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS everything was fine for like 20 minutes. After that my in-game FPS started dropping until it even reached 8 FPS. Playing the game was unbearable.
Without streaming I can run the game fine, but later on I also noticed that PUBG makes my GPU load 99%. Maybe this caused the GPU to shut itself off at one point and this caused the major lag in the game?
I was pretty pissed since I remembered I had this problem on Twitch as well when I did a test stream with PUBG. For a slight second I thought that my pc is just junk and can't handle streaming, but then I thought that there are people playing/streaming PUBG with worse PC's than mine and somehow they manage to do it. How?
I had so many reasons that might have cause this. Maybe my GPU was faulty? Maybe I need to change the thermal paste of the GPU? Maybe GTX 1060 isn't just enough for streaming? No, it can't be. People do it with worse GPUs. Maybe I have a virus or something on the computer? Maybe my PC can't handle dual-monitoring? I was going crazy. I didn't want to admit that I just have to quit the idea of streaming PUBG over all and just find something else for me. Or pay 2000 euros for a new rig. Who has that kind of money, lol?
SIMPLEST FIX TO THE FPS DROPS?
I monitored all of my GPU's doings with MSI Afterburner. The temperature, load, fan speed and so on. I noticed that my fans don't do kind of anything. Not that they don't work, but they were kind of set on a low speed (to reduce the noise, I assume?). I strongly pushed the fan speed to 75% and admitted to myself the noise isn't that low. The temperatures of the GPU weren't high, but I figured a cooler temp doesn't hurt the situation.
I looked over my NVidia 3D settings and noticed I had everything on "high quality." Changed them to "maximum performance" and tried to stream again. That didn't fix it. I was again clueless until I figured should try turning off NVidia Instant Replay recording. Since I was trying to get some good clips while playing offline I had it turned on and it was constantly recording my every movement in the game + the stream itself was recording from GPU. This was putting pretty much on one device, I assume.
I turned the Instant Replay recording off, restarted the stream and tried again, optimistically. I hold my breath as the 20-minutes streaming mark approached and hoped I won't start getting another FPS drops... and... I didn't! I streamed for 1 hour without getting any FPS drops or lagging and my GPU load was staying stable at 50%.
Yay!
That means I am still able to stream Playerunknown's and one small part of my life is yet again fixed. ^^
