Dropped Frames? Need Help

[JackWarner709]

Hello,

I've been dealing with some network issues on my OBS and I've been troubleshooting with the CPU, GPU, OBS, and other things that might result into dropped frames. The only thing that I find is that it is the network from the stats window and the CPU / GPU is in the 20s % in the Task Manager during stream. Here's the log attached of the last stream I did, which showed the 10% dropped frames during an hour stream. What can I do to resolve this?

Thank you

https://obsproject.com/logs/LP8fJ4Wip3DI6aeN

 

[koala]

20:06:21.207: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 25775 (10.1%)

See the corresponding help for network issues:

Stream Connection Troubleshooting | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. Dropped frames? Your stream is disconnecting? This guide will help you troubleshoot common connection issues.

obsproject.com

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Absolutely start with article koala linked
short answer - lower your streaming bitrate, reduce other traffic on LAN/WAN link, get more upload bandwidth from ISP
You aren't on a cellular (or other wireless) ISP, right?

Oh, and that streamelements PoS plugin ... all those errors aren't helping (and all those failed network calls could be impacting throughput... maybe..). so presuming you don't want to do without streamelements (my recommendation) is to start by resolving all of those errors. I don't know if StreamLabs provides adequate documentation such that RTFM will suffice, or support, or ?? good luck with that plugin

hopefully this won't be necessary... I mention this just in case you wish to be thorough in your troubleshooting - create a stand-alone OBS Studio instance... do NOT install any plugins and test (while doing some real-time monitoring of your LAN/WAN link (router/whatever)

 

[JackWarner709]

Absolutely start with article koala linked
short answer - lower your streaming bitrate, reduce other traffic on LAN/WAN link, get more upload bandwidth from ISP
You aren't on a cellular (or other wireless) ISP, right?

Oh, and that streamelements PoS plugin ... all those errors aren't helping (and all those failed network calls could be impacting throughput... maybe..). so presuming you don't want to do without streamelements (my recommendation) is to start by resolving all of those errors. I don't know if StreamLabs provides adequate documentation such that RTFM will suffice, or support, or ?? good luck with that plugin

hopefully this won't be necessary... I mention this just in case you wish to be thorough in your troubleshooting - create a stand-alone OBS Studio instance... do NOT install any plugins and test (while doing some real-time monitoring of your LAN/WAN link (router/whatever)

That's the thing. I don't have the Streamelements plugin installed, I only use their overlays. I have made a clean reinstallation of OBS and put two browser sources in the clean one: one from Streamlelements and one from another overlay site, but it stills shows a massive amount of errors. Here's the log for the recent test.

https://obsproject.com/logs/SW5ceVzR16TlV4Dq

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

That's the thing. I don't have the Streamelements plugin installed, I only use their overlays. I have made a clean reinstallation of OBS and put two browser sources in the clean one: one from Streamlelements and one from another overlay site, but it stills shows a massive amount of errors. Here's the log for the recent test.

https://obsproject.com/logs/SW5ceVzR16TlV4Dq

PoS overlays then... or some RTFM on setting them up to avoid making such a mess of the logs? all those errors take time to process, and in just the right circumstance, could impact certain network traffic (if network waiting for something to time-out before proceeding)

I'd remove /disable the PoS streamelements overlays completely from your scene/sources and test streaming. Check your logs... if those streamelements errors still appearing remove/disable more... until the errors are gone. Now, are you getting dropped frames?