Bug Report OBS Disconnects as soon as I try to play

omni

New Member
Hi there,

I'm currently having this problem with OBS that completely stops me from streaming any gameplay.

I'm trying to stream the game Team Fortress 2. The stream will work if I am in the menu, whether I'm in a server or not. As soon as I exit out of the menu to play, OBS disconnects instantly. It doesn't even give it a try.

Any ideas what could be causing this? It just seems unusual that OBS disconnects any time I try to move anywhere. I can't find anything that may be causing this problem.

Thanks in advance.
 

Lain

Forum Admin
Lain
Forum Moderator
Developer
Strange.. could you check your hotkeys? perhaps you mistakenly set a common key as the "disconnect" hotkey in broadcast settings?
 

omni

New Member
What happens is, as soon as the game gets going, the kb/s goes straight to 0 and it tries to reconnect, and fails.

My stop stream key is NUM_SUB, which I don't press ever. Unless pressing ESC to get out of the menu stops it, I really can't imagine what the problem could be.
 

Lain

Forum Admin
Lain
Forum Moderator
Developer
It means the server disconnected you for some reason -- very weird. There could be any number of reasons why it would be happening. Speaking of which, I really need to log the data coming from the server specifically for these situations
 

omni

New Member
Just a bump. Here's a video of me trying to stream recently.
http://www.twitch.tv/omnibombulator/b/335881062
As you can see, the stream records me navigating menus with no problem at all. You'll see that I join a server. As soon as the server has connected, my stream disconnects.

I can post my OBS settings if that would help at all.
 

omni

New Member
Okay, here are all the settings that would effect my stream. If there are any other settings that might help, let me know.

Settings: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f251/killerreligion/obssettings.png

And a speedtest which may help:
2247954358.png
 

omni

New Member
Not sure what fixed it, but it appears to be resolved. I added the command vbvmaxrate to the Custom x264 Encoder Settings and changed a few other settings, and now it's running fine.
 

Fred_

New Member
Streaming TF2 went pretty bad for me, so I decided to try another game and see if it was just a one game thing. Started borderlands 2, set it to fullscreen windowed and went ingame and started the streaming. After a second or so it just disconnected over and over. I close the game and set vbv-maxrate=1000 and now it works. No idea if it was that or the restart that fixed it. It still lags extremely bad on the stream, but maybe that's my gpu as it seems to fine if I look into a corner, heh.

Edit: I must say! I added vbv-maxrate=1000 vbv-bufsize=1000 (bufsize for no real reason, double vbv- must be double good obviously) and tf2 is a LOT better. Now the video only locks up every now and then and the connection only drops on round switch. Big improvement!

before
after (lower settings here because i was still experimenting with that)


Edit 2: Okay, now i keep getting disconnected as fast as i join a server in tf2, even with vbv-maxrate. :(
 

Fred_

New Member
I think I've sorted out most of my problems now, I was a bit hasty with posting here... hehe. Not sure where the random disconnects come from, but changing twitch server seems to fix that. As for the stream hiccups, it seems all I had to do was to lower TF2's settings, changing anisotropic filtering to trilinear seems to have helped in particular... I think.

I'm trying out 1920x1080->1280x720 at 30fps and I have a sandy bridge 2500k running stock settings. I increased the quality a bit after lowering the settings in tf2 -
quality 5, max bitrate:2000, buffer size:5000 and the veryfast preset.
 
that sounds about right... i thought you got those results from 1k bitrate and was like wow. 2k bitrate is the minimum for 720p for high quality
 

Fred_

New Member
Hmm, I think that the "after" vid i posted was running different settings, but I can't say for sure what settings. If you're interested in what the settings I posted look like, you can see it here. I should probably lower the ingame settings a tad bit more to stop the last few hiccups.
 
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