Question / Help I'm Done Trying! I Need Help!

sliice

New Member
Fellow OBS'ers,

First of specs;

CPU - Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz [4 Cores, 8 Threads]
GPU - CrossFire AMD Radeon HD 6970's [Core 880MHz, Memory 1375MHz, 2GB GDDR5]
RAM - 24GB Corsair Dominator GT
MOBO - Rampage III Gene

Internet Speed;

Ping - 10ms
Download Speed - 64.35Mbps
Upload Speed - 16.85Mbps

I use Twitch to stream and the Stream Configuration Quality is always "excellent" but i'm continuously getting stream lag like every 5 minutes without fail [little white circle spiny thing] . I have setup OBS using the Twitch configuration suggestions.

Latest OBS log file is attached.

Please help me get this sorted its driving me insane, if you need anymore information let me know asap.

Thanks
 

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You mean you're keeping an eye on your own stream while streaming, and the player in Twitch is lagging, right? Have your viewers reported issues as well? Watching your stream while streaming might be choking up your network. Try not having your stream playing and have a friend tell you if they see any issues.
 

sliice

New Member
  • I have the twitch Dashboard open while streaming.
  • Twitch player is lagging, whilst OBS shows no frame lag/dropped frames.
  • Viewers always report that there's lag on the stream.

I would have thought you would need the Dashboard open so you can chat etc.. ?

i've even tried dropping the max bitrate + buffer size and running incredibly low settings, lowest resolution and switching severs but still get the same problem.

Could it be a hardware problem? maybe the i7 carn't cut it?
 

tehguy

Member
Are you gaming on the same PC that's encoding? I use an i7 860 in my stream machine and with x264 veryfast 3500Kbps and 720p60 I can stream without dropping frames. That's about the limit for that machine though, first generation i7's are not the best for encoding.
 

Krazy

Town drunk
Well, that's not true. But a lot does depend on time of day/whether your viewers are lucky enough to get a decent connection.

Anyway, if you are not dropping any frames (you aren't) then the only way to solve the issue is to lower bitrate until it stops. This is an issue between whoever is viewing the stream and the Twitch video delivery server. It's also important to note that it's not necessarily Twitch at fault either. The internet is a complex web of connections and all it takes is one bad node/server/hop along the route between the Twitch server and the viewer to cause connection issues.
 

sliice

New Member
Are you gaming on the same PC that's encoding? I use an i7 860 in my stream machine and with x264 veryfast 3500Kbps and 720p60 I can stream without dropping frames. That's about the limit for that machine though, first generation i7's are not the best for encoding.


Yeah buddy i play and stream from the same computer but ill look into using one of my other computers to stream while playing on this one thanks for the suggestion.
 

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Non-partners can stream above 2000 without buffering. Buffering is caused by not having a good enough connection to the Twitch server to download the video from them. It has nothing to do with being partnered or not.
 
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