justnanatv
New Member
Hello everyone,
I hope that finally here I can find an answer to my problem. Please help me!
I've been streaming for a few months, and never had problems with lagging. It happened maybe twice, and it was a game/cam being laggy on stream which I could easily see in the OBS preview. Recently I've been on hiatus for a few weeks, and once I came back to streaming, everything looked as good as always. Till the second stream after the break. I've noticed the green little square in the bottom right corner changing to orange, and red, and people in the chat started to say that stream became laggy for them (buffering a lot). I was checking the VODs every day after such situations, and VODs looked perfectly fine, no lag there, no lag in OBS preview either. I'm streaming always at the same hour, and the problems always appear at about the same hour as well (I'm starting at 18:00 the problems appear around 20:30-21:00). When I was closing the stream it was not closing automatically, I had to wait quite long to have the "Closing Stream..." text disappear. However, I had a feeling it can't be an issue with my internet, since I'm using a wired ethernet connection, and the speed is very good.
I've made a post on Reddit explaining my situation because I was thinking I might be a victim of some hacker groups that were pretty active on Twitch in the past few months (stealing IPs). But nobody was able to help me. The only thing I did was changing my server, but it didn't help much. Eventually, I used Twitch Inspector, since I faced a problem that lasted quite long (around 30 minutes).
This week I've been sick so I wasn't streaming much and honestly I hoped that the problem that appeared out of nowhere will disappear in the same manner. Saturday was okay-ish (14 minutes with issues according to the Twitch Inspector) but yesterday (Sunday) it was an absolute nightmare. The stream was unstable for nearly 2 hours (I'm streaming 3-4h usually so you can imagine how was it), people were saying in the chat that there is a delay but I was thinking it's the same as always. But I was so wrong! Even tho in OBS everything looked fine (except for that permanently red square) it turned out that the stream had a screen that freezes every few minutes, and eventually was around 20-30 minutes behind. The stream was not even recorded fully! In VOD around 20-30 minutes are gone, and it seems like I've stopped the stream mid-game, which I didn't. Here is the VOD.
Yesterday something new appeared in OBS tho, something I haven't seen before, it's this text at the bottom of the window:
Encoding overloaded! Consider turning down video settings or using a faster encoding preset.
Since I finally got some sort of a hint, what can cause all of my problems, I started to dig for an answer (also on this forums).
Here is the log from yesterday: https://obsproject.com/logs/FmNuJlG8HM2rAy5t
I've turned on the OBS Analyzer and already did some changes: I removed some things from the sources (some browser sources and graphics, some of them I added to OBS yesterday due to the Halloween theme) and I've created a new Scene Collection, and I've kept only necessary scenes in the current one, meanwhile, every other is kept in the new one. I also removed Window and Display captures from the one scene, and I've kept only Game Capture and Capture Card (these days I'm streaming from my Nintendo Switch).
I hope I explained my problem pretty well, and with all the needed details. If you need something else in order to provide a better answer, please let me know.
You are my last hope guys.
I hope that finally here I can find an answer to my problem. Please help me!
I've been streaming for a few months, and never had problems with lagging. It happened maybe twice, and it was a game/cam being laggy on stream which I could easily see in the OBS preview. Recently I've been on hiatus for a few weeks, and once I came back to streaming, everything looked as good as always. Till the second stream after the break. I've noticed the green little square in the bottom right corner changing to orange, and red, and people in the chat started to say that stream became laggy for them (buffering a lot). I was checking the VODs every day after such situations, and VODs looked perfectly fine, no lag there, no lag in OBS preview either. I'm streaming always at the same hour, and the problems always appear at about the same hour as well (I'm starting at 18:00 the problems appear around 20:30-21:00). When I was closing the stream it was not closing automatically, I had to wait quite long to have the "Closing Stream..." text disappear. However, I had a feeling it can't be an issue with my internet, since I'm using a wired ethernet connection, and the speed is very good.
I've made a post on Reddit explaining my situation because I was thinking I might be a victim of some hacker groups that were pretty active on Twitch in the past few months (stealing IPs). But nobody was able to help me. The only thing I did was changing my server, but it didn't help much. Eventually, I used Twitch Inspector, since I faced a problem that lasted quite long (around 30 minutes).
This week I've been sick so I wasn't streaming much and honestly I hoped that the problem that appeared out of nowhere will disappear in the same manner. Saturday was okay-ish (14 minutes with issues according to the Twitch Inspector) but yesterday (Sunday) it was an absolute nightmare. The stream was unstable for nearly 2 hours (I'm streaming 3-4h usually so you can imagine how was it), people were saying in the chat that there is a delay but I was thinking it's the same as always. But I was so wrong! Even tho in OBS everything looked fine (except for that permanently red square) it turned out that the stream had a screen that freezes every few minutes, and eventually was around 20-30 minutes behind. The stream was not even recorded fully! In VOD around 20-30 minutes are gone, and it seems like I've stopped the stream mid-game, which I didn't. Here is the VOD.
Yesterday something new appeared in OBS tho, something I haven't seen before, it's this text at the bottom of the window:
Encoding overloaded! Consider turning down video settings or using a faster encoding preset.
Since I finally got some sort of a hint, what can cause all of my problems, I started to dig for an answer (also on this forums).
Here is the log from yesterday: https://obsproject.com/logs/FmNuJlG8HM2rAy5t
I've turned on the OBS Analyzer and already did some changes: I removed some things from the sources (some browser sources and graphics, some of them I added to OBS yesterday due to the Halloween theme) and I've created a new Scene Collection, and I've kept only necessary scenes in the current one, meanwhile, every other is kept in the new one. I also removed Window and Display captures from the one scene, and I've kept only Game Capture and Capture Card (these days I'm streaming from my Nintendo Switch).
I hope I explained my problem pretty well, and with all the needed details. If you need something else in order to provide a better answer, please let me know.
You are my last hope guys.