Question / Help "Encoding Overloaded" issue.

[KitsuneSidhe]

Hi there!

So, I've been trying to get back into streaming after a year or so hiatus and have encountered some issues. Specifically, yesterday (Friday, April 15th) I wanted to stream the Overwatch beta a bit and was getting a message saying "Encoding Overloaded" in OBS, and the stream itself was stuttering and buffering for people at best, or just not working at worst.

I tried it a bit later with Dark Souls 3, same thing. This was weird because the day before I had started streaming Dark Souls 3 and it was working just fine for around four hours. Nothing changed with my system in that time, at least nothing that I'm aware of.

I had a similar issue a few weeks back when I was streaming Nosgoth one night, but didn't have it with another game earlier in the day. So I figured it might've been me not restarting, or the internet being wonky. Now though I'm not so sure.

Computer specifications, if needed:
CPU: AMD FX 4100 Quad Core, 3.6 Ghz
RAM: 8GB
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6900

Most recent log file: https://gist.github.com/f91d8f94f18e85d90420b7bd93ecce1a

Thank you for any help. :)

(Edit: Ooops, apparently it -did- upload the .txt versions even though it didn't look like it! I have other log files, including the ones from my Dark Souls stream on Thursday if needed)

 

[Peepeebedee]

Having the same issue on my machine of it just sucking CPU for seemingly no reason after working fine for a week. We have completely different rigs too so It's definitely an OBS issue In my opinion, lets hope we can get this sorted.

 

[KitsuneSidhe]

Ouch, sorry to hear that! I'm not sure if it is OBS or not. I tried loading Xsplit onto my system and it gave me a high encoding warning as well and suggested I set the specifications to 540p... Dunno if it worked though since I couldn't find how to actually stream with it. XD

I did try putting OBS down to 540p and still having the same issues though. :/

 

[KitsuneSidhe]

Update: It looks more and more like it's a result of my ISP throttling our connection on Friday-Saturday. I was able to stream without any problems yesterday (Sunday), first a 15-minute test during the day, and then a 4 hour one at night. I'm not sure why OBS is giving an Encoding Overload message because of it though, but the only time I received that warning was when my game crashed and I reloaded it while OBS was still streaming. Everything else was fine.

You might want to try during non-peak hours as well, Peepeebedee, if you're able to.