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Trying To Help a Friend Out (FPS Dips - BF4)

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Hey guys. I am a little stumped at this point. A friend of mine plays Counter Strike, Diablo, and Battlefield 4 and likes to stream all of them. Not at once of course. The problem is, he gets major FPS drops when streaming Battlefield. I realize that the game is pretty demanding and streaming it can be a real pain but is there anything he can do?

Listed below are his tech specs with all programs running in the background:

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Windows 7 x64
Intel Core i7 4790K
16GB RAM @1600
MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce GTX 780
1TB Western Digital HDD

Software
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)
Software for Logitech Headphones
Deepbot for streaming
Sub Alert for streaming
Chrome for chat/music

He is running two monitors, one at 1920x1080 and the other at 1600x900. If I am not mistaken he is of course playing on the 1920x1080.

Here is what he pulls when playing various games

Frame Rates
Counter Strike when not streaming: 350-450
Counter Strike when streaming at 45fps and 720p on OBS 250-300
Counter Strike when CPU maxes out for whatever reason, drops to 70-120
Battlefield 4 when not streaming he says is damn near perfect
Battlefield 4 when streaming is drops to something like 50-100

Is there anything he could do? Would an SSD help this as it would be able to read the data at a much faster rate, or no? CPU temps are only getting to around 70c tops. I am sure I forgot some info in here so if you have questions feel free to ask and I will try to answer.
 
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I'd put VSync on just to start... I know it can create certain stutter scenarios, but making CS play at 300FPS while streaming... it's an insane extra workload for the PC. Same with BF4 at 100+. Dropping to 50FPS is not something bad, except if you're running at 120+ and then your drop to 50. With VSync (if his monitor is 60hz) it should keep stable at 60 with fewer drops and less demanding workload.

SSD shouldn't help in this scenario.
 
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He tried Vsync I think and noticed a slight improvement. He also switched from 45fps to 60 and said that that helped keep things more constant but still a little lower than he would like. He did say like I said, that he didn't really get any bad dips though which is good. However, there was a slight increase in temp on his CPU. Nothing dangerous though. Is there anything else?
 

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bf4 is cpu-intensive,encoding is cpu intensive ... what exactly do you expect
if you expect no fps-drops while streaming ... keep on dreaming
your options are 1. over-clock the 4690K to > 4.5Ghz or 2. use shadow-play
orbs is crapola you are actually better off using the geforce experience software so you can leverage the extra power the 780 has available
 
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bf4 is cpu-intensive,encoding is cpu intensive ... what exactly do you expect
if you expect no fps-drops while streaming ... keep on dreaming
your options are 1. over-clock the 4690K to > 4.5Ghz or 2. use shadow-play
orbs is crapola you are actually better off using the geforce experience software so you can leverage the extra power the 780 has available

Ahhhh. Fills my heart with joy knowin g someone else says crapola haha. I will pass this info on to him. Since I don't stream ever I can't tell him what is good and what is bad. I know that both are very cpu intensive but that's about it. Well almost. So, shadowplay instead for sure?
 
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