Question / Help 0 dropped frames and no buffer at all but lagging video on twitch

Boildown

Active Member
I don't see any streaming in that log file. Do a 5 minute or longer test stream of high action content and post that OBS log file.
 

Boildown

Active Member
I still don't see any encoding statistics. Did you actually stream? Did you copy and paste the entire log file?
 

zebarkez

New Member
I'm still streaming though, should I click upload current log or last log? or should I do it after I'm done streaming
 

Boildown

Active Member
00:44:15.833: Output 'simple_stream': Total encoded frames: 509483
00:44:15.833: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 519163
00:44:15.833: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 7432 (1.4%)
00:44:15.833: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 9351 (1.8%)
00:44:15.890: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Freeing 62 remaining packets
00:44:16.476: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 46741/513813 (9.1%)

Lagged frames are the ones caused by the GPU not keeping up, 1.4%.
Dropped frames are the ones due to your internet connection being flaky, 1.8%
Skipped frames are the ones due to your CPU not keeping up, 9.1%.

The first thing I'd do is downscale the webcam more, from 720p down to 480p. You don't need it that high rez anyways when its just a postage stamp on your overall stream. And it can have an impact on performance.

The next thing I'd do is change the downscale to one of the other options other than Lanczos. Lanczos is the most CPU intensive and in the past people didn't think it looked better than the others.

If none of those fix it (you want the percentages to be less than 1% for the video to look good), then switch the preset to SuperFast from VeryFast.

This probably won't fix the internet-related Dropped Frames though. You might need to yell at your ISP, or decrease your bitrate, or tell everyone sharing your connection to stop torrenting, or something along those lines, to fix that.
 

zebarkez

New Member
the thing is, is that i never had any of these problems until i updated my windows on around june. game dvr is disabled too. maybe i should get ssd? my hdd seems to struggle a lot at loading in some newer games like pubg and h1z1 while streaming, since it creates video and uploads it at same time? i dunno. if ssd helps i might just get it. i think like that because pubg and h1z1 could take up most of hdd and none is left for obs
 
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