Question / Help Problem with stream video freezing

[Shikibara]

So as I have recently come to realize, alt+tabbing out of the game mid stream or even tabbing into the game after you start a stream, is like bad bad stuff that will wreck your stream and freeze the video. Being on a laptop until I can afford to build a desktop, this makes life difficult in ways I really wish weren't an issue. I need the desktop occasionally incase I need to adjust something out of game, or verify that the stream is actually working. So my question is, what advice do you have to keep the game from freezing when I need to alt+tab? Does anyone know if I can tab out without minimizing the game and killing the video? If I do have to/accidentally tab out, how can I restore the stream video without stopping and starting the stream over again?

I'm using the scene switcher that comes pre-packaged, and being on a laptop, I cannot verify that the scenes switch, and I cannot preview the OBS window to see what is being streamed, and I don't think waiting 30 seconds to see from the Twitch viewer's perspective is a good idea.

Thoughts and solutions?

Thanks,
Shiki

 

[dping]

So as I have recently come to realize, alt+tabbing out of the game mid stream or even tabbing into the game after you start a stream, is like bad bad stuff that will wreck your stream and freeze the video. Being on a laptop until I can afford to build a desktop, this makes life difficult in ways I really wish weren't an issue. I need the desktop occasionally incase I need to adjust something out of game, or verify that the stream is actually working. So my question is, what advice do you have to keep the game from freezing when I need to alt+tab? Does anyone know if I can tab out without minimizing the game and killing the video? If I do have to/accidentally tab out, how can I restore the stream video without stopping and starting the stream over again?

I'm using the scene switcher that comes pre-packaged, and being on a laptop, I cannot verify that the scenes switch, and I cannot preview the OBS window to see what is being streamed, and I don't think waiting 30 seconds to see from the Twitch viewer's perspective is a good idea.

Thoughts and solutions?

Thanks,
Shiki

use windowed mode with no border where-ever possible. in the cases where its not, I guess you just have to trust things are being done right on the back end. use your phone to view your own stream.

Second to that, if you have switchable graphics (dual intel/nvidia GPUs), this you are out of luck with much help when alt-tabbing, since switching back to desktop could mean killing the connection with the descrete GPU and switching to the onboard.