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Cloud Corleone
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October 28, 2019
Question

Character Animator fps getting lower over time

  • October 28, 2019
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Hey,

I use Character Animator for Live Streaming via OBS.
While streaming i normally got 20-25 fps (which isnt perfect but well... its okay)

But when i stream for longer times i realised that the fps are getting lower (like 8-15fps). I asked (the makers of the puppet) graphicsmama but they said they didnt had this kind of problem till now.

So i got two questions:
- What could be the problem that causes this for me (is there like a log i could look at or something)
- What are things i could do to improve performance of character animator. Like use more ram, cpu, gpu or something like that

Regards, 
Cloud / Marvin

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    Matt29
    Matt29
    Participant
    March 8, 2021

    I've been noticing this issue as well. The longer the stream goes, the more frames get dropped. I've been monitoring my CPU and RAM usage and I can't explain it. It has been frustrating.

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      Cloud CorleoneAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      January 27, 2020

      Hi i still got the error

      im using my avatar for streaming. its set to 1080x720p on 25fps but even when im doing like nothing it cant keep up the 25fps... (im having a amd 3950x that is on ~18% from character animator) while streaming it drops lower and lower over time
      also got a rtx2080ti and 64gb ram in the pc...
      Are there other settings i can adjust for better performance?
       
      after 45 mins of having character animator open and doing nothing:  ~12 fps
      2,5h later: its at 3fps now
       
      hope someone can help me
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        Leogdsl
        Participant
        February 15, 2021

        Hello, this is happening to me too. I have good cpu and gpu. i9 9900k and Nvidia 2080. My cpu usage is so high only when I open the app and more and more slower when I am streaming. This is so hard to streaming with this app. Anyone know how to fix this issue? 

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          Cloud CorleoneAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          November 8, 2019

          Little update:

          With the new version 3.0 it got even worse... most of the time its at 13 fps now and drops down to 3-5 

          i set the new lipsinc options to the lowest settings in the hope it would help but that didnt changed anything

           

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            Cloud CorleoneAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            October 30, 2019

            I also realised even when only running the avatar (after stream ended) the cpu usage was around 25% only from character animator. After reloading the scene (wih pressing alt) it stays at 15%. Also character animator uses ~7 Gb ram. And short peaks of gpu usage at 25% (jumps between 0 and 25%)

            I am having a Ryzen 3700X so i think the cpu shouldnt be a problem? i assume maybe the avatar is badly optimzed or something? or there are settings i am not seeing?

            alank99101739
            alank99101739
            Legend
            October 28, 2019

            Are you recording in CH while streaming?

             

            Can you look at some kind of performance meter app while streaming to see if its running out of CPU, out of memory, or more disk I/O going on?

             

            If you hit the "refresh" button in the scene after it is slower, does it suddenly speed it up again?

             

            Just some suggestions to help identify the source. I think it would need the core Adobe team to resolve it though.

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            Cloud CorleoneAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            October 28, 2019

            No only streaming 🙂

            Guess looking at the task manager should work. Will try that tomorrow and send an update.

            Currently i restart adobe character animator and then its better again.

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            Cloud CorleoneAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            October 29, 2019

            Okay seems like my cpu is at like 50% most of the time while streaming and goes up to 70%  and the higher it gets the lower are the fps going...

            so i assume i would have to lower my stream settings? Even through i find it weird that it drops frames on character animator even on 50% already

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