Found some quirks with 2k22 (lag and FPS) Especially for streamers

[Hatchtopher]

I stream on Twitch and have been grinding 2k22. I jumped onto the 2k bus late, namely when Epic Games offered 2k21 for free, but since then it's been my main squeeze. I noticed that every time I would be streaming 2k22, The stream would get really laggy. This was not something I experienced with 2k21. In OBS tonight, I discovered what the problem was. During gameplay (not menus or deadball exchanges) and especially during gameplay while streaming, OBS was reporting a huge render lag and dropping FPS to 5-20 FPS for my stream output. It was painstakingly laggy and hard to watch. Something was causing a major bottleneck.

Related to this, I mainly have played the game's offline modes and not a lot online. Whenever I played online, the game itself was laggy and timing shots and the such was next to impossible. But when I found the fix for the rendering lag problem, it solved this issue as well. I was able to pull off some wins and some close losses tonight in MyTeam online modes because the online game modes were finally playing the same as the offline game modes.

My monitor is 165hz and the game would play around 103 to 140FPS at 1080p during offline gameplay which I thought was good. Online gameplay is capped at 60FPS to help level the playing field and make it more palatable for a lot more users which may not have gaming-level Hz monitors. With 2k22, it turns out that high FPS ISN'T better. The game is truly optimized for 60FPS. I opened up Nvidia Control Panel and limited the FPS of the game to 60. This solved the render lag with OBS while streaming and the game's lagginess which I would experience while playing online. The game doesn't truly and fully support being played at anything higher than 60 FPS. I had tried a bunch of solutions to fix the problems but nothing worked until I capped the FPS.

I post this hoping that it will help someone who may be avoiding online play for the same reason I was. I just couldn't be competitive because the game gets too laggy to be able to proper time out the gaming mechanics. I'm curious if anyone else had been experiencing either of those 2 issues as well.

[Andrew]

Good to know! Appreciate you sharing the tip. I avoid the online scene for other reasons, but it's great to have info like this out there. I'd love to see our community get back to more gameplay discussion in general.