OBS kb/s Square to Red After Weekend Update

[Earthwalkrr]

After the last update this past weekend, OBS has not been able to hold a stream for a steam game known as "The Isle" on my Twitch Channel (though I love the built-in Bandwidth Test Mode!). I use a Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3i Laptop, and seemed to be working fine with a video bitrate of 1000 kbps. Now after the update, those specs seem unusable. ISP confirms dedicated internet, and because I use a laptop I streamed successfully at 480p at 30fps. Since the update, I've maneuvered between 100 - 1000 kbps, to no avail. Any advice for settings to help stabilize kb/s for streaming? Here's my latest log:

15:40:28.707: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz
15:40:28.708: CPU Speed: 2496MHz
15:40:28.708: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
15:40:28.708: Physical Memory: 8060MB Total, 3590MB Free
15:40:28.708: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 18363 (release: 1909; revision: 1256; 64-bit)
15:40:28.708: Running as administrator: true
15:40:28.708: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
15:40:28.708: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
15:40:28.708: Game Bar: On
15:40:28.708: Game DVR: On
15:40:28.708: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
15:40:28.709: Sec. Software Status:
15:40:28.709: Windows Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)
15:40:28.709: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
15:40:28.710: Current Date/Time: 2020-12-16, 15:40:28
15:40:28.710: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
15:40:28.710: Portable mode: false
15:40:28.886: OBS 26.1.0 (64-bit, windows)
15:40:28.886: ---------------------------------
15:40:28.887: ---------------------------------
15:40:28.887: audio settings reset:
15:40:28.887: samples per sec: 48000
15:40:28.887: speakers: 2
15:40:28.888: ---------------------------------
15:40:28.888: Initializing D3D11...
15:40:28.888: Available Video Adapters:
15:40:28.890: Adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
15:40:28.890: Dedicated VRAM: 4154458112
15:40:28.890: Shared VRAM: 4225886208
15:40:28.890: PCI ID: 10de:1f95
15:40:28.890: Driver Version: 27.21.14.5167
15:40:28.890: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=120, name=
15:40:28.890: Adapter 1: Intel(R) UHD Graphics
15:40:28.890: Dedicated VRAM: 134217728
15:40:28.890: Shared VRAM: 4225886208
15:40:28.890: PCI ID: 8086:9bc4
15:40:28.890: Driver Version: 27.20.100.8280
15:40:28.892: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (0)
15:40:28.934: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000
15:40:28.934: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success
15:40:28.934: D3D11 GPU priority setup success
15:40:29.270: ---------------------------------
15:40:29.270: video settings reset:
15:40:29.270: base resolution: 1920x1080
15:40:29.270: output resolution: 424x240
15:40:29.270: downscale filter: Bilinear
15:40:29.270: fps: 30/1
15:40:29.270: format: NV12
15:40:29.270: YUV mode: 709/Full
15:40:29.270: NV12 texture support enabled
15:40:29.272: Audio monitoring device:
15:40:29.272: name: Default
15:40:29.272: id: default

15:45:53.681: ==== Streaming Start ===============================================
15:46:49.286: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] User stopped the stream
15:46:54.521: socket_thread_windows: Normal exit
15:46:54.521: WriteN, RTMP send error 10035 (99 bytes)
15:46:54.521: WriteN, RTMP send error 10038 (42 bytes)
15:46:54.521: Output 'simple_stream': stopping
15:46:54.521: Output 'simple_stream': Total frames output: 1350 (1793 attempted)
15:46:54.521: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 1852
15:46:54.521: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 443 (24.7%)
15:46:54.521: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Freeing 273 remaining packets
15:46:54.527: ==== Streaming Stop ================================================

 

[R1CH]

The log seems incomplete.

 

[Earthwalkrr]

The log seems incomplete.

You're right! It couldn't fit all of it. I'll attach the log here:

 

[Earthwalkrr]

I'm also attaching the last stream that I had done successfully with OBS Studio and this game.

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Then that weekend came the automatic update for OBS, then I couldn't properly stream this game after that.

 

[Nass86]

Did this happen after the Windows 10 update?

 

[FerretBomb]

Did this happen after the Windows 10 update?

A Win10 update would not cause this.
His connection to the server started having an issue. Fun part about the internet; 95% of your connection to a server is completely outside of your control, and can change from good to bad and back with you changing absolutely nothing on your end. So network problems can start and stop on their own.
The logfile showed that his connection to the server could not maintain the throughput configured, at the time of the attempted stream.

 

[Nass86]

Thanks for the reply. Has the issue been resolved?

If not it could be this known update as people on independent Laptops and running Servers are experiencing an issue that cannot be fixed without reversing the windows update.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/an...-hardware.html?page=1&pageSize=10&sort=oldest

 

[FerretBomb]

Thanks for the reply. Has the issue been resolved?

If not it could be this known update as people on independent Laptops and running Servers are experiencing an issue that cannot be fixed without reversing the windows update.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/an...-hardware.html?page=1&pageSize=10&sort=oldest

Frankly there are people who think that 5G causes COVID, and that waving chickens over a server will increase throughput.
Any time a new update rolls out and ANYTHING goes wrong, there's a section of people who will blame it on the update, and jump to open a thread on the MS forums.
The only way to test and be sure if it's actually related is to roll back the update to see if it disappears, then re-apply the update to see if it recurs.
Most times, it's just "last thing I remember having changed" being blamed.

 

[Nass86]

Yeah I hear you. Sadly in my case it is the update.