I've been streaming since May 2016 and not once have I had any issues until around March & April of this year. Not sure why I'm receiving this issue, but everything I've researched isn't a factor in my case. I've been streaming these past few days without any problems until today's stream it started dropped frames again around 1 hour 24 minutes into the stream.
Before you read further, I have looked at the stickied threads and ruled out those possibilities. I'm not having any hardware failures or loss of internet speed. My only new addition to this year of streaming is my new webcam, green screen (cam/gs was setup in Jan. 2017) and 250gb SSD (set this up a couple weeks ago, but the issues were still happening prior).
When the dropped frames were happening I did change the server to Backup Youtube ingest server, but the dropped frames still proceeded.
Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a0ef2c0037943002350815a4a3b98a55
Internet Speed (1gbps):
Computer/Other
OS: Windows 8.1
OS is on a 250GB SSD
Almost all games are on a separate 250GB SSD, but most are on the OS SSD.
Programs running during stream: Fussbot, OBS, Steam, Discord, Mozilla Firefox - Youtube Live Stream Dashboard open, Lightshot, Peerblock (always disable it before playing games) and FileZilla Server
Forwarded Ports: I do have ports open, but I don't know if that will cause issues or not.
Firewall is off
Router firewall is off
OBS Version: 18.0.1 (64bit, windows)
Sources:
Video Capture Device
Game Capture
Stream settings
Output streaming/audio settings:
Video settings
My bitrate before was 4600. After dropped frames starting happening I changed it to 3500 instead, but still no relief. I do not lag in games, if I do see some fps drops in a game I lower its settings, but almost all the games I play have no in-game lag.
PC Hardware:
Case ➜ Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced - with USB 3.0
Motherboard ➜ MSI Gaming Z97 GAMING 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97
PSU ➜ EVGA SuperNOVA 1000, 1000W Fully Modular
CPU ➜ Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
GPU ➜ MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G
RAM (16GB) ➜ G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3
Hard Drives ➜ 1x2TB HDD & 1x1TB HDD
Samsung SSD ➜ 2x250GB SSDs
If anyone can shine some light on this it would be greatly appreciated. At this point I don't know what's going on or what to do about it.
Before you read further, I have looked at the stickied threads and ruled out those possibilities. I'm not having any hardware failures or loss of internet speed. My only new addition to this year of streaming is my new webcam, green screen (cam/gs was setup in Jan. 2017) and 250gb SSD (set this up a couple weeks ago, but the issues were still happening prior).
When the dropped frames were happening I did change the server to Backup Youtube ingest server, but the dropped frames still proceeded.
Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a0ef2c0037943002350815a4a3b98a55
Internet Speed (1gbps):
Computer/Other
OS: Windows 8.1
OS is on a 250GB SSD
Almost all games are on a separate 250GB SSD, but most are on the OS SSD.
Programs running during stream: Fussbot, OBS, Steam, Discord, Mozilla Firefox - Youtube Live Stream Dashboard open, Lightshot, Peerblock (always disable it before playing games) and FileZilla Server
Forwarded Ports: I do have ports open, but I don't know if that will cause issues or not.
Firewall is off
Router firewall is off
OBS Version: 18.0.1 (64bit, windows)
Sources:
Video Capture Device
Game Capture
- Mode: Capture Specific Window
- All unchecked except: Use anti-cheat compatibility hook
Stream settings
- Service: Youtube / Youtube Gaming
- Server: Primary Youtube ingest server
Output streaming/audio settings:
- Output Mode: Advanced
- Encoder: NVENC H.264
- ✔ Enforce streaming service encoder settings
- Rescale Output is unchecked
- Rate Control: CBR
- Bitrate: 3500
- Preset: Default
- Profile: main
- Level: auto
- ✔ Use Two-Pass Encoding
- GPU: 0
- B-frames: 2
- Audio Bitrate: 160
Video settings
- Base (Canvas) Resolution: 1920x1080
- Output (Scaled) Resolution: 1280x720
- Downscale Filter: Lanczos (Sharpened scaling, 32 samples)
- Common FPS Values - 60fps
My bitrate before was 4600. After dropped frames starting happening I changed it to 3500 instead, but still no relief. I do not lag in games, if I do see some fps drops in a game I lower its settings, but almost all the games I play have no in-game lag.
PC Hardware:
Case ➜ Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced - with USB 3.0
Motherboard ➜ MSI Gaming Z97 GAMING 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97
PSU ➜ EVGA SuperNOVA 1000, 1000W Fully Modular
CPU ➜ Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
GPU ➜ MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G
RAM (16GB) ➜ G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3
Hard Drives ➜ 1x2TB HDD & 1x1TB HDD
Samsung SSD ➜ 2x250GB SSDs
If anyone can shine some light on this it would be greatly appreciated. At this point I don't know what's going on or what to do about it.
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