Dropped Frames

toza

toza

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Hello OBS Forum!

I'm making this post because I'm at my wits end.. I've been streaming for about a year now and I've been experiencing heavy dropped frames due to network pretty much every day. I've searched high and low for answers and I'm completely out of gas.

Could someone assist me in finding an answer to this? I'm new to looking at OBS Logs.

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Here is my latest OBS Log: https://obsproject.com/logs/7ZiYIDYLmVjVqmSM
 
You also have some Rendering Lag/GPU overload going on with the dropped frames. Load reduction is in order, see below
22:05:51.218: Output 'adv_stream': Total drawn frames: 619983 (620043 attempted)
22:05:51.218: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 60 (0.0%)
22:05:51.219: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 51097 (8.2%)
22:05:51.219: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Freeing 1 remaining packets
22:05:51.219: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 60/619969 (0.0%)

As far as the dropped frames go, head over to the support page for your mobo & update your network driver, it's stale. The new driver should eliminate the errors below.
19:13:37.338: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Interface has non-zero error counters (0/13 errors, 34212/0 discards)

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You'll save some resources & may see some improvement in the rendering lag if you lower the Refresh Rate on your main monitor to 120 or 60HZ.

Turn Game Mode On
 
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I missed the DVR stuff, disable it while you're enabling Game Mode.

19:04:29.109: Game Bar: On > Off
19:04:29.109: Game DVR: On > Off
19:04:29.109: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
19:04:29.109: Game Mode: Off > On
 
rockbottom said:
I missed the DVR stuff, disable it while you're enabling Game Mode.

19:04:29.109: Game Bar: On > Off
19:04:29.109: Game DVR: On > Off
19:04:29.109: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
19:04:29.109: Game Mode: Off > On
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Thank you, rockbottom! I updated my network drivers to the most recent version and I also enabled game mode while disabling game bar.

Thank you for the recommendation of turning down my refresh rate, however, I will skip that step for now. I am mostly concerned about my network frames dropped at this time.
 
1. Use TwitchTest to make sure you're connecting to the best server for your location.
2. Before you start streaming, go to Settings > Advanced > Network > enable "Dynamically change bitrate..." [Apply] [OK]. Now when you stream, OBS will drop (lower) the video bitrate instead dropping frames. Let's say you only have 5980 Kbps of bandwidth between you and the twitch server for some reason, OBS would lower the bitrate to 5900 or 5800 and then raise it back up to 6000 when it's available. It can go as low 50 Kbps and usually goes in 100 Kbps increments. You might have lower quality frames but you're viewers will see all the frames. You can mitigate the lower quality by enabling Look-ahead and setting Multipass Mode to Two Passes. You should get more quality per bit. Please be aware those use additional GPU. Do not confuse dynamic bitrate with VBR which changes the bitrate based on the content.

I'm pretty sure OBS will show the bitrate and you can also view the changing in the log.
 
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