Dropping frames only on Twitch

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TheNZA

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Hi! So today I am posting this after months of troubleshooting my issues. I started streaming using OBS recently and it went great for the first few months. I streamed at 1080p60 with a 6K bitrate with at most 100 dropped frames per stream. One day towards the beginning of December, I started dropping 1-2% of my frames per stream. Initially, I thought this was a hardware issue somehow but that was quickly ruled out (for anyone curious, I have a 2070 paired with a 3700x and 24gb of RAM). Then I figured I could lower my settings to 720p and 4500 bitrate. Nope, still dropped frames. At this point I figured it was my ISP, so I contacted them and had them basically reset everything and anything for me. They sent a technician out, replaced our modem and router with MUCH stronger variants, and made sure everything was functioning properly. Now this helped, a little bit. Before I contacted my ISP I tried using the dynamic bitrate option and that never actually helped. After I got my ISP involved, the dynamic bitrate option would cancel out ANY dropped frames, but there would be periods of like 10 seconds all the way to 2 minutes where my bitrate was sitting at like 200 and my stream turned to a pixelated MESS. Curiously, I tried using the bandwidth test mode and for some reason my bitrate remained constant during the entire test without any drops. Wondering if this was an issue isolated to Twitch, I tried streaming to YouTube yesterday. I streamed at my old 1080p60 with 6K bitrate and my MINIMUM bitrate was 5800 over the course of 2 hours with no dropped frames or issues. So obviously my issue is related to Twitch. I don't think these dropped frames are BIG issues for my viewers as roughly half the time they're not too noticeable, but I am just wondering why all of a sudden I drop like 4000 total a stream when I used to drop a maximum of 100.
 
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