2018-06-11 Technical Difficulties, Is His Computer Dying?

[JackDavis]

On his desktop he needs a GPU though, without one he won't get any video out to the monitors lol.

You're right and I just said you were right about it not having an iGPU a few messages ago. I don't know how I forgot so quickly.

 

[neger psykolog]

I'm not familiar with OBS either all I know is that since DSP's current CPU has no integrated graphics when his GPU dies all he will get is blank screens until he replaces his dedicated GPU. As far as I'm aware he uses his desktop to stream/record so it's going to be hilarious if his GPU dies out of nowhere on him.

You're right and I just said you were right about it not having an iGPU a few messages ago. I don't know how I forgot so quickly.

The relevance of the iGPU discussion is that he probably cannot use his laptop when his PC isn't working.

But Kat's PC.....

 

[JackDavis]

FACT CHECK
https://obsproject.com/wiki/System-Requirements

Anyway it doesn't really matter because he doesn't even have integrated graphics.

Basically if your computer uses CPU to encode video then you're probably not doing it right tbh. Not all applications support it though.

So reading those requirements, it looks like how it works is you use the CPU to transcode video for streaming, and the GPU to encode video to save on your HDD. So now it makes sense why he has such terrible issues streaming from his PC. Almost no other TwitchTV streamer records their gameplay locally, he does, so he taxes his GPU with encoding his recording (at something stupid like 20,000 kbps) and it leads to Rage running at 1FPS.

 

[neger psykolog]

So reading those requirements, it looks like how it works is you use the CPU to transcode video for streaming, and the GPU to encode video to save on your HDD. So now it makes sense why he has such terrible issues streaming from his PC. Almost no other TwitchTV streamer records their gameplay locally, he does, so he taxes his GPU with encoding his recording (at something stupid like 20,000 kbps) and it leads to Rage running at 1FPS.

Almost no PC games will ever max out your CPU unless its potato-tier. Its basically inconceivable unless the game is extremely buggy/badly designed and even if its badly designed its more likely that it won't use that much.

So yes, him streaming+recording is probably what causes all these issues.

Building a second PC which can record 1080p isn't even that expensive.

The issue with all of these is DSP doesn't do research and doesn't want to spend money on anything (even though I assume all of the costs of PCs/internet/drives is tax deductible)

 

[FallGout]

Almost no PC games will ever max out your CPU unless its potato-tier. Its basically inconceivable unless the game is extremely buggy/badly designed and even if its badly designed its more likely that it won't use that much.

So yes, him streaming+recording is probably what causes all these issues.

Building a second PC which can record 1080p isn't even that expensive.

The issue with all of these is DSP doesn't do research and doesn't want to spend money on anything (even though I assume all of the costs of PCs/internet/drives is tax deductible)

His biggest issue is he records at stupidly high bitrates when YouTube will just compress that to shit anyway, he also does/did record 30FPS games at 60 FPS for whatever reason wasting a ton of resources. I think he has stopped doing that now though.

 

[BallBuster]

He could just view event logs and narrow down the issue. I mean that is only day 1 stuff when it comes to PC troubleshooting.

 

[Hrothgar]

I started to get weird artefacting and graphic glitches on my main monitor one night. I was so drunk that I changed resolutions from 4K to 2K to 1080, then tried 3 different DVI and 2 HDMI cables before I remembered that I had pushed my card's overclock further about an hour earlier. Reverted that and it was fine. I think I still did a better job of troubleshooting than Phil ever could.

 

[FallGout]

I started to get weird artefacting and graphic glitches on my main monitor one night. I was so drunk that I changed resolutions from 4K to 2K to 1080, then tried 3 different DVI and 2 HDMI cables before I remembered that I had pushed my card's overclock further about an hour earlier. Reverted that and it was fine. I think I still did a better job of troubleshooting than Phil ever could.

His idea of troubleshooting is to try something once, give up then ask Twitter for help and whine when people don't give him the exact solution he needs.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

To be honest, it could also mean that his both screens are fucked up. But in either case would be weird for GPU to fry or screens getting fucked up due to restarting, but it's a possibility if he doesn't use a screensaver. In the end, instead of having everything being on 24/7 maybe he should have used Sleep Mode?

People do that? Doesn’t Windows set sleep mode to work by default for exactly this reason?

 

[AnOminous]

His biggest issue is he records at stupidly high bitrates when YouTube will just compress that to shit anyway, he also does/did record 30FPS games at 60 FPS for whatever reason wasting a ton of resources. I think he has stopped doing that now though.

Yes, he's repeatedly complained that YouTube is "shit" because it takes it longer than the video itself to upload and process. That's probably because he's feeding it these gigantic files that require lots of time to compress. He's too fucking dumb to understand this, though, and will just keep doing it that way.

 

[FallGout]

Yes, he's repeatedly complained that YouTube is "shit" because it takes it longer than the video itself to upload and process. That's probably because he's feeding it these gigantic files that require lots of time to compress. He's too fucking dumb to understand this, though, and will just keep doing it that way.

I also remember him once complaining that Shadowplay (Nvidia's included game recorder that encodes on the GPU) put out massive files and was not usable to take some of the load off the CPU while playing PC games. He likely just set it to record at 1080p 60FPS and 60MB/s bitrate(Shadowplays stupidly high recording settings) without understanding that is totally pointless when YT will compress it to 8,000kbps anyway.

People told him this stuff but like usual he ignored it all because, Phil knows everything and everyone else is wrong.

Funny how he went from recording his TV with a wonky out of focus camera to such a quality whore.