Question / Help No issues for over a year, now random lag spikes and frame drops

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riolu

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Hello,
I'm here with a rather odd problem. I've been using OBS Studio for my streams for over a year with no issues whatsoever. All of a sudden, I drop frames while streaming and even in local recordings even though I have not touched any software or hardware settings. The only difference is that I'm temporarily bound to using WiFi on my PC due to a broken LAN cable, but that normally shouldn't affect local recordings at least.
Even the preview screen comes to a full stop for 3-4 seconds, however the audio runs perfectly fine.
I've tried changing up the CPU priority, decreased the bitrate to a minimum and tweaked multiple other settings without success. A reinstall of OBS Studio as well as older versions of the program did not make a change either.
I'm pretty clueless about this and since streaming is my part time job I need to get this fixed as soon as possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, hoping that this is not a sign of hardware failure...

My setup:
  • CPU: Intel i5-6600K (no OC)
  • GPU: MSI GTX 960 4GB (no OC)
  • RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 4 16GB DDR4 2133 MHz
  • Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE
  • Windows 7 64-bit
Possibly relevant OBS settings:
https://puu.sh/zttHW/589945a313.png
https://puu.sh/zttIe/b795b0605f.png
https://puu.sh/zttIJ/ac7f68da5c.png

Thanks in advance,
riolu
 
I checked that and it makes sense since I'm running over a wireless connection right now. However I fail to understand how local recordings (not streaming, only recording) and the scene preview drop frames as well?
 
They don't. The term "Dropped frames" is being used incorrectly.
Link your OBS log from a time when the problem is happening.
 
Whenever Windows/ (Specifically, but other OS as well) has network connection issues, lag/spikes/whatever - will guaranteed happen. I'ts not surprising at all. Just switch back to cabled again.
 
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