Anything weird in the log?

[Tiyo]

Heyo guys,

I am experiencing dropped frames (up to 15% per stream) in the last couple of days and that causes screen freezes or buffering for the viewers.
Just upgraded to a dual PC setup, sending video through NDI and AUDIO through voicemeeter banana VBAN from gaming PC using gigabit switch. Everything else is hooked up to a streaming PC.
I tried every thing I could think of and also followed threads from this forum regarding the troubleshooting. It feels like it's ISP issue but of course speedtest tells differently - every time it hits max speed. But I am sure it's not constant.

Anyway, I got ISP technician coming over in a couple of days but I just wanted to see if you guys notice anything weird in the log that might be causing issues apart from the unstable network? I just want to exclude all issues from my side.

Log: https://obsproject.com/logs/5prNjpim838vsFXp

I know I haven't turned on OBS as admin today so you can exclude that being an issue since yesterday Istreamed as admin and still had 10-15% dropped frames.
Any advice/help is welcome!

Oh yes, I also noticed something weird - when I click start streaming, it feels like OBS almost freezes before the streams starts. Perhaps it's connected to the issue I have.

Tnx a lot in advance. :)

p.s. when I use the setting "dynamically change bitrate to manage congestion" I have no dropped frames but quality of the stream is super potato and that is not an option for me.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Game DVR: On <- is that intentional?

No need to run OBS as admin, as this isn't a rendering / encoding contention issue, per the log

22:08:29.514: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1 (0.0%)
22:08:29.514: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 177679 (11.5%)
22:08:29.515: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 3/3083786 (0.0%)

Now as for network, it could be ISP, or it could be something else on your LAN, or the streaming PC itself, or VPN, security s/w, etc... none of which would be visible in the OBS log
Are you doing basic hardware resource monitoring on the streaming PC? ie Task Manager (Performance tab) and/or Resource Monitor?

 

[Tiyo]

Thanks for the fast response :)

Game DVR: On <- is that intentional?

Definitely not intentional, I forgot to turn that off on streaming PC, ty!

Now as for network, it could be ISP, or it could be something else on your LAN, or the streaming PC itself, or VPN, security s/w, etc... none of which would be visible in the OBS log

Tried bypassing switch and streaming while directly connected to router - same.
Not using VPN, security is off in the local network.

Are you doing basic hardware resource monitoring on the streaming PC? ie Task Manager (Performance tab) and/or Resource Monitor?

MSI afterburner to monitor temps. Any particular thing you had in mind?
Also, I had a lot of lags when I tried a test stream from the gaming PC so not sure if it could be some of the PC components causing the issue.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

MSI afterburner to monitor temps. Any particular thing you had in mind?
Also, I had a lot of lags when I tried a test stream from the gaming PC so not sure if it could be some of the PC components causing the issue.

I'd start with basic Task Mgr (Perf) and see if CPU, GPU (encoder), RAM etc bottlenecking

 

[Tiyo]

Tested it out, none of that is bottlenecked. Probably because the PC is a beast:

• i5 10600K
• Nvidia GTX 1660 Super
• HyperX Predator RGB 64GB (2x32GB) 3200MHZ RAM
• Samsung 970 EvoPlus 1TB

ISP technician is coming over today, hopefully he will have some solutions. Will keep you posted.
If you guys think of anything else, please let me know.