Question / Help Bit rate won't calm down, seriously need help :(

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Vahnkiljoy

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So for some reason my bitrate is ignoring my settings and dipping so low as to disconnect me and so high as to go over 7-8kb/s, I have no idea what is going on but it happens in single player and multiplayer games as well, making streaming/playing not possible, I have no idea what the problem is and it seems to have started saturday, I thought I had it fixed but it seems diablo 3 seems to be some special case that I can't fathom.

Can anyone help me I'm on my last straw, it also happens in xsplit as I figured it might be an OBS issue but boy was I wrong. Any suggestions would be great.
 
Limit your FPS in your games using either vsync or, in Minecraft, use their ingame FPS limiter. Set it to 60fps and lock it there. You're getting waaaaay more rendering lag and encoding lag because your using AMD's Video Card Encoder and your video card can't keep up with a game using all of it's power to render the game as well as encode on OBS Studio. Also, if you're dropping any frames due to insufficient bandwidth, according to one section of the log, then I'd drop your bitrate a tad as well.

It's hard for me to tell from your log what your bitrate is set to. Twitch allows up to 6000 bitrate IF your connection allows it. How much upload speed do you have?
 
Well I was using the amd encoder as a test, which is odd because before saturday I was having no issues whatsoever, yeah I forgot to update, rolled back because I updated to the 18.0.2 as a hail mary that it would have fixed my issue yesterday. I'll have to post a log without the amd encoder.
 
17:57:15.470: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_stream'] preset: medium

Set it to very fast. your processor can't handle it.
 
I'm unsure as to how suddenly after years of streaming with these exact settings my processor can suddenly not handle it. =/

Well here is a fresh log, I reinstalled windows hoping it would have fixed it, SEEMED like it did because I was able to successfully stream creativerse for a few hours but when we switched over to some killing floor 2 BAM stream went down because bit rate tanked to 0 and never recovered. D:

https://gist.github.com/314c9ddd93ac8d6d23a8a1580881a1e4

Something else very odd and confusing that I noticed, if I alt tab away from the game the bit rate goes back to normal and tanks when the game is the main thing.
 
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