Question / Help My ping goes insanely high while streaming.

[Gonthorian]

Hello everyone,

I decided to quickly create an account on the OBS forums to ask a question I have been thinking about for days now. I am a top 100 Rocket League player and I sometimes stream my gameplay and in 3 hours the Rocket League ESL tournament is starting so I want to stream that as well. I stream on Hitbox because somehow I'm IP banned on Twitch. My upload speed is only about 4,50 - 5,00 and a lot of people say that's enough, but apparently it isn't.

My PC specs:

- Intel i5-4690k (overclocked to 4,3 GHz)
- 8 GB RAM
- NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti

OBS settings:

My PC specs are fine, which is pretty obvious because when streaming I'm constantly at 60+ FPS. But the problem is that, with these settings, my ping goes extremely high in-game and everything starts lagging out. My car starts doing weird things and it makes the game much harder to play. When I put the bitrate down to 1500 my stream gets insanely blurry and almost unwatchable, and I don't want that either. People say my upload speed is fine though..

So I am posting this to ask the following question: is there something I can do to prevent my ping from getting high? When not streaming it's always around 20-30, but when I start streaming, after a minute, my ping rises up to 60-120. Hoping for some helpful answers as I really want to stream in a few hours :(

EDIT: I am from the Netherlands, that's why I chose EU-West in the broadcasting settings

 

[FerretBomb]

Try different ingest servers.
2000kbps is nowhere NEAR enough for 720p@60fps video. Dial it back to 30fps. Generally an i5 is going to run out of juice after that point anyway. Especially if you're gaming on the same system, rather than capturing from a console via cap card.

You can try turning on 'automatic low latency mode' in Advanced, and 'Minimize network impact' in Broadcast Settings.

No need for a bunch of screenshots by the way; in the future just upload a log from the Help menu, and post the link it gives. Logs also contain a LOT more information on what's happening on the back end, and can let us know what may be needed to help. So don't waste time taking screenshots.

Most Twitch IP-bans aren't actually your account. If you're on a dynamic IP address, it's very likely that someone else from your ISP who had your IP address before got banned. It's kind of dumb as they ban the IP and the account, even if the IP is shared between a large number of people (ISP customers). Generally an email to Twitch Support can get it cleared up, or you can just refresh your IP and hope to get one that an idiot hasn't used to troll and gotten blacklisted.

And a minor point, streaming tournaments is generally still copyright infringement, and can get you banned on Twitch *or* Hitbox. Hitbox had a big problem with that a while back (people re-casting other streams) and were swinging the ban hammers hard. Streaming other people's content is generally a bad idea, and not allowed.

 

[Gonthorian]

Try different ingest servers.
2000kbps is nowhere NEAR enough for 720p@60fps video. Dial it back to 30fps. Generally an i5 is going to run out of juice after that point anyway. Especially if you're gaming on the same system, rather than capturing from a console via cap card.

You can try turning on 'automatic low latency mode' in Advanced, and 'Minimize network impact' in Broadcast Settings.

No need for a bunch of screenshots by the way; in the future just upload a log from the Help menu, and post the link it gives. Logs also contain a LOT more information on what's happening on the back end, and can let us know what may be needed to help. So don't waste time taking screenshots.

Most Twitch IP-bans aren't actually your account. If you're on a dynamic IP address, it's very likely that someone else from your ISP who had your IP address before got banned. It's kind of dumb as they ban the IP and the account, even if the IP is shared between a large number of people (ISP customers). Generally an email to Twitch Support can get it cleared up, or you can just refresh your IP and hope to get one that an idiot hasn't used to troll and gotten blacklisted.

And a minor point, streaming tournaments is generally still copyright infringement, and can get you banned on Twitch *or* Hitbox. Hitbox had a big problem with that a while back (people re-casting other streams) and were swinging the ban hammers hard. Streaming other people's content is generally a bad idea, and not allowed.

Thanks a lot for your answer. Cleared up some things for me. Copyright isn't a problem since everyone is able to freely stream their gameplay.

Rocket League is played on 60 fps though, if I would dial back the settings to 30fps in OBS, wouldn't it mess up my stream? I will try turning on the settings you mentioned btw.

 

[Hopewithinchaos]

Rocket League is played on 60 fps though, if I would dial back the settings to 30fps in OBS, wouldn't it mess up my stream? I will try turning on the settings you mentioned btw.

No, Many streamers stream at 30 FPS. Rocket league doesn't look bad at 30 FPS. It increases quality by reducing half of the frames that are rendered. It won't be as "smooth" But it looks just fine.

You can also try the "Minimize network impact" Box

 

[Laope]

Minimize network impact

Its a must for online multiplayer while streaming IMO. that option fixed my rocket league lag