obs disconnecting only on twitch and kick, not youtube

[aquelegf]

Hi,
I’ve been streaming for over 6 years and never had any issues with connection stability or OBS itself. After taking a 1-year break, I decided to return to streaming recently. To my surprise, I haven’t been able to stream properly on Twitch or Kick, because my OBS keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every 10 to 30 minutes.

Here’s what happens: the bitrate suddenly drops to 0 for no reason, OBS disconnects for a few seconds, then reconnects automatically. There are no dropped frames — I can stream for hours with 0% frame loss. My internet connection is great, both download and upload speeds are excellent.

I’ve already tried lowering the bitrate even to 2000 kbps, but the issue persists. I also enabled that beta Dynamic Bitrate and Network Optimization in advanced settings, but that didn’t help either. I disabled Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS), no luck. OBS Log Analyzer shows no errors.

Interestingly, when I stream on YouTube, everything works perfectly — not a single disconnection across multiple streams. But as soon as I switch back to Kick (and Twitch before that), the drops start happening again.

At this point, I’ve tried every suggestion I could find online and tested dozens of different configurations, but nothing fixes it. I really don’t think it’s my internet connection, since YouTube streams run flawlessly.

Could this be something on Twitch’s or Kick’s side — maybe some kind of network prioritization or server behavior that affects smaller streamers during high traffic times?

Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[PaiSand]

A log file from one of the fail streaming attempts is needed.
Most times this is due to a misconfiguration for the RTMP protocol directly on the ISP.

 

[aquelegf]

A log file from one of the fail streaming attempts is needed.
Most times this is due to a misconfiguration for the RTMP protocol directly on the ISP.

Is this it?

 

[PaiSand]

Start removing the malware called Norton from your computer. The antivirus and firewall that comes with Windows it's better, inmenselly less intrusive and is not a malware. Recommended to use revo uninstaller (much like ddu but for apps) to remove completely this malware.
You're using a Windows Insider Build of the operating system, which is not supported and may have issues. Please install a release version instead.
Unless you have a bad ISP, you don't need dynamic bitrate.

Analyzer | OBS

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After fixing this, test it again. If the issue persist then the problem could be on the network adapter (failure), the network driver (update it), the network cable, the port where the network cable is connected to the router / modem (connect the cable in other port), issues within the router/modem (view the configuration for port forwarding or firewall issues, or just hardware failing) or, most probably, an issue on the ISP over the RTMP protocol routing it across the globe to reach twitch's or kick's servers.

This is the error about the network issue:

18:31:50.489: WriteN, RTMP send error 10060 (4097 bytes)
18:31:54.621: WriteN, RTMP send error 10038 (91 bytes)
18:31:54.621: WriteN, RTMP send error 10038 (42 bytes)

 

[aquelegf]

Start removing the malware called Norton from your computer. The antivirus and firewall that comes with Windows it's better, inmenselly less intrusive and is not a malware. Recommended to use revo uninstaller (much like ddu but for apps) to remove completely this malware.
You're using a Windows Insider Build of the operating system, which is not supported and may have issues. Please install a release version instead.
Unless you have a bad ISP, you don't need dynamic bitrate.

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

After fixing this, test it again. If the issue persist then the problem could be on the network adapter (failure), the network driver (update it), the network cable, the port where the network cable is connected to the router / modem (connect the cable in other port), issues within the router/modem (view the configuration for port forwarding or firewall issues, or just hardware failing) or, most probably, an issue on the ISP over the RTMP protocol routing it across the globe to reach twitch's or kick's servers.

This is the error about the network issue:

I genuinely don't know why the log mentions a Windows Insider Build, because I’m not part of the Insider program — no idea why that’s showing up. Anyway, I uninstalled Norton and changed the router port. I’ll check for driver updates and try another stream later this week. If none of that works, I’ll probably have to call my internet provider. The only thing I can think of that’s changed over the past year is that I installed Norton and replaced my modem with a higher-speed one.