lagging while streaming

OBS has been running fine with no problems earlier this year. But now the past month, it's been lagging up my PC and taking up a lot of my memory. In the screenshot it goes up from around 50% to over 90%. I tried turning the bitrate down, setting the process priority to "high" and "above...

so whenever i have obs open, whether im streaming or not, it lags down my laptop way too much, that its nearly hard to function. another problem is that i usually connect my phone to my laptop, then show that screen on quicktime, which i connect to obs, which will be streamed to twitch. this...

I've been streaming for months using the same settings but ever since the new obs update i get instant dropped frames. I disabled Game mode still as soon as i start the stream i get 500+ dropped frames. I use a GTX 1060 3gb to Stream, the only game i stream is fortnite.

I have an issue where I will play my game and it is completely fine while streaming but the stream is laggy. Not only live, but when I look at past broadcasts. I have around a 130 mbps upload speed and I was watching a video which said set your bitrate to around half of your upload speed. With...

Log File: https://obsproject.com/logs/TmgrtJqvuZmbxX6f I really don't know what could be going wrong. I am just trying to record some Rainbow Six Siege with some friends but whenever I record, the videos come out unbearably choppy and laggy. Audio is fine but the quality of the video is...

I have windows 10 Laptop with NVIDIA GPU 940MX DDR3 and core i5 7200U processor, I tried streaming with 1500 bitrate and x264 for both recording and streaming but it lags a lot. I tried changing to NVENC but then OBS deny to go LIVE online. Please help me with the best settings for streaming. I...