Completely Unknown Source of Connection Issues.

[SleepyBoi139]

I am not entirely versed in how a lot of connection stuff works when it comes to computers. A couple of days ago I had a really bad storm in my area. No internet issues throughout the night that the storm happened however the next day I couldn't do anything on the internet. Found out my ethernet cable was messed up and replaced it. Games are working mostly fine now however OBS still isn't working properly. Especially today. I started streaming, was streaming fine for about 1 hour. Then all of a sudden OBS broke and won't go back. I start up stream, it says I have red connection quality but my bitrate is where it usually sits at. I don't know what's going on. It usually sits at the normal bitrate with the red bar quality then it just goes to 0 bitrate and says reconnecting. Idk what's going on and I just want to be able to stream consistently. For context i've been streaming pretty much every day for the last month or so and not a single issue until the other day when we had the storm.

 

[qhobbes]

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[SleepyBoi139]

These are the logs covering around an hour and half of streaming. Right at the beginning of the stream, there were some issues then it "fixed??" itself and started streaming perfectly fine. after around an hour or so of streaming everything started to break again and the is how many log files were created between 6:20pm cst to around 8:00pm cst tonight.

 

[qhobbes]

1. Run OBS as Admin. To run OBS as Administrator, right click on the OBS shortcut, properties, advanced, check box, ok, apply, ok.
2. Browser hardware acceleration is currently disabled. Enabling acceleration is highly recommended due to the improvements to performance and significantly lower CPU usage for browser sources. This can be enabled in Settings -> Advanced.
3. Multiple Game Capture sources are usually not needed, and can sometimes interfere with each other (scene: Scene). You can use the same Game Capture for all your games. If you change games often, try out the hotkey mode, which lets you press a key to select your active game. If you play games in fullscreen, use 'Capture any fullscreen application' mode.
4. Your logs contain streaming sessions with dropped frames. This can only be caused by a failure in your internet connection or your networking hardware. It is not caused by OBS. Follow the troubleshooting steps at: Dropped Frames and General Connection Issues. The quick fix is to enable Dynamic Bitrate (and it looks like you had that enabled at one point, but then disabled it. Your bitrate at one point was fluctuating between 50 and 350, which may not be the best for 1920x1080 60 FPS content, but it's either that or dropped frames).

 

[SleepyBoi139]

Regarding Step 1. I am on windows 10 and doing what you have described of how to do does not show up properly. I'm not sure if I'm dumb or what. The other thing is, is that I've had this same configuration of things for about a month now with zero issues so I couldn't see as to why it all of a sudden one day breaks. I'm going to be calling my ISP at some point to hopefully fix this issue but until then I'm going to attempt to continue to follow these steps as best as I can.

 

[qhobbes]

 

[SleepyBoi139]

Thank you! I guess doing the same thing but from inside of a pre-existing folder doesn't work.