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Hey there TL, I just recently downloaded XSplit to stream some SC2. I know that XSplit can't capture SC2 in fullscreen, so one must play in either windowed, or windowed fullscreen mode. I chose the latter, however when I enter windowed fullscreen, i notice a sort of "lag", kind of like an input delay. I still get a solid 60 fps (i play on high settings, i'll post my specs at the end) according to the in-game fps meter. The reason I'm posting is because I want to know if there's a way to counter this lag/delay, or if I just have to deal with it.
It's really annoying to have to play SC2 like that, as it makes the game feel a little jittery, and choppy at times. the fps stays the exact same though, so I'm a bit lost as to what is causing it.
I have pretty much the exact same XSplit settings as TheGunrun described in his thread:
except that my max bitrate and buffer are at 2500/2600 respectively (for now, I'm still testing those settings).
My connection :
Windows 7 64-bit Intel i7 2600k OC'd @ 4.7 GHz 16GB G.Skill 1600 SLI'd GTX 260's ASUS z68-v/gen3
I have the latest version of XSplit too, I DO NOT have any extra things like Dxtory or anything like that.
I might as well add that the instant I open up XSplit, everything on my computer seems a little sluggish/laggy. Like dragging a window around doesn't look smooth compared to when XSplit is closed.
TL:DR: Playing SC2 in windowed fullscreen doesn't feel as good as regular fullscreen, and I want to know if there's anything I can do with XSplit to change that.
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I know there has to be SOMEONE who has gone through this, will disabling SLI help? I'd test it out, but I'm not at home.
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Did you turn off vsync and enable the 'reduce input latency' options?
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R1CH, I just tried that, however it didn't help =/.
I'm going to try disabling SLI and seeing if that makes any difference.
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Okay so I just tried disabling SLI, however it made no impact whatsoever. I'm going to play around with XSplit's settings for awhile.
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I have the same exact problem as you noah. I have really god net , but can't seem to stream without having little jitters that are frustrating to play with. The game starts out fine with high FPS , and stays high FPS as it goes on , but it starts to feel laggy. For example I would send out a probe to scout and i can see its animation moving with jitteryness.
Btw. where is the input latency setting?
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Okay, I've made SOME progress. In the XSplit general settings window, I had unticked 'Let XSplit disable Aero theme'. I ticked that box and everything ran smoother. Still needs work though. I'm trying to get the XSplit to pick up my starcraft2 sounds.
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Yeah I give up. The smoothness that I gained from ticking 'Let XSplit disable Aero theme' is gone. I don't know what's causing my game/pc to perform poorly like this.
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I just had a thought, not sure if you've heard of this but you need to change the affinity of the programs... I don't imagine it will solve all you problems but it should help a fair bit...
In task manager under processes, right click starcraft and click 'set affinity'. depending on how many cores your cpu is, i'd recommend checking 2 cores. I have a quad core so with xsplit I check the other two cores under its affinity. So SC2 has cores 0 and 1 while xsplit has cores 2 and 3.
Thats kind of a 'trade secret', I've only seen one person on their stream do it, and the great Day9 has only mentioned it on a special video about streaming that isn't on his channel/archive. Anyways I hope this helps. Let me know how it goes.
-Alex
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Also, if you run SC2 in windowed mode and crop out the task bar and title bar, it helps a lot. Just a thought.
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