TIPS on using OBS and Ableton for Livestreaming?

[junqueira]

I can only have a few tracks/plug ins open at one time before getting serious stutters/lag. I have to set the buffer to 256 which is a little annoying; wish it could go lower without the lagging. Do you all have this problem as well?

[jestermgee]

and the audio interface you are using is...?

[Angstrom]

when I've used OBS I've not noticed any particular issues.

[acYm]

generally it's quite smooth. on my setup, the cpu meter in obs is around 0.7 to 1.2% normally. it's not very significant, but it still eats into the dsp a little, it's like you're running an invisible old vst in the background.

but sometimes, inexplicably, the cpu is like between 2 and 3%. when that happens, random audio problems occur. weird things, like how moving windows around the screen may suddenly cause clicks. then I must either restart obs and see if cpu is back down to 1%, or if not, reboot. it's pretty strange. I wonder if anyone else has seen something like that.