Please explain WTF happened to my stream? Dropping a ton of frames per second!

[pugofwallstret]

Ok, I just finished streaming and I was notified by my viewers that I began dropping frames. I checked and it looked like PowerPoint presentation. This has never happened to me before.

-Edit-
It happened in the last ten minutes of the stream

 

[qhobbes]

19:33:23.138: [AMF] <Id: 3> No output Packet, encoder is overloaded!
19:33:23.177: [AMF] <Id: 3> Input Queue is full, encoder is overloaded!

Your encoder is overloaded. See

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[pugofwallstret]

I'm aware it got overloaded but I've streamed like this with no problems. So I'm assuming toning down the settings a few numbers back will do the trick?

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From 15 to 20? Still looks good and I'll probably still be able to upscale to 4k