Question / Help Preventing ping spike in online games while streaming

FireStarW

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While I stream using OBS Studio playing TF2, an online game, I usually get periodic spikes of ping from my normal ping (30) up to 400 or so, going back and forth like a sine wave over a few seconds, making the game very unplayable.

I've looked into this and it seems the main thing is to wait for the "Minimize Network Impact" option from OBS classic to be re-implemented, but I've done a few other things in attempt to combat this issu.

I'm wondering if using the "zerolatency" tune for x264 will have any impact on this issue or not, as well as any other settings I could change to prevent these spikes.

(I tried lowering bitrate, it did nothing to help, it seemed router settings were a major culprit, disabling the QoS seemed to mostly fix the issue but there are still some occasional spikes.)
 
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