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rwoody

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I have a decent gaming PC, but I am having performance issues in a few games. Here's my major components:

i5-6600K
16GB RAM
GTX 970

For example, I have been playing GTAV for several months, and I can play on top settings with 60FPS when I play story mode. But I've recently started streaming on Twitch, and when I stream GTAV, I see all kinds of stuttering when I'm in the city. Since the game is stuttering for me in the game as well as in the stream I figured it's not my internet. (40Mbps down/5Mbps up) Would it be my CPU struggling to run the game AND the OBS software at the same time? Or could it be my GTX 970 not keeping up?
 
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GTA V is very CPU heavy, and livestreaming just adds to the CPU load, you might be in a situation where upgrading to an i7 would be beneficial. Quick Sync allows your integrated graphics to handle the video encoding which can take some load off your CPU to improve performance. It is also usually best to record your footage onto a separate drive from the game, as recording the footage to the drive while streaming data from the drive for the game can easily exceed the read/write capabilities of a hard drive, and even push SSDs quite hard.
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do you record to the same hard drive the game is installed to?

are you using quick sync?

is your processor overclocked?
 
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GTA V is very CPU heavy, and livestreaming just adds to the CPU load, you might be in a situation where upgrading to an i7 would be beneficial. Quick Sync allows your integrated graphics to handle the video encoding which can take some load off your CPU to improve performance. It is also usually best to record your footage onto a separate drive from the game, as recording the footage to the drive while streaming data from the drive for the game can easily exceed the read/write capabilities of a hard drive, and even push SSDs quite hard.
 
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Thanks for that info! I think I'll invest in a second hard drive and a 6700K.

 
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