Question / Help Stream Choppy -- Lowering Bitrate Doesn't Help

[Crowny Succubus]

Hi. I've been using OBS for about a year or so now and didn't really have problems until recently. I'm getting a lot of dropped frames and it makes the stream amateurishly choppy. I've tried everything I could think of to fix it: defragging my computer, restarting my modem, speed testing my internet performance, and lowering the OBS bitrate significantly. However, none of these things have helped and I'm not sure what I need to do.

Below I've included a log of my stream along with possibly relevant specs for my computer.

Log: https://hastebin.com/qitidavaku

Intel Core i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs)
16.0 GB RAM

Video Device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Chip Type: GeForce GTX 1060 GB
Total Memory 14.2 GB

Sound Device: DELL SE2417HG-4 (NVIDIA Hi-Def Audio)


Motherboard: ASRock B250 Pro 4 Version PS

 

[Crowny Succubus]

Any advice???

 

[koala]

There are 2 notable things in your log:

20:58:44.131:
20:58:44.131: ================================
20:58:44.131: Warning: OBS is already running!
20:58:44.131: ================================
20:58:44.131:
20:58:50.246: User is now running a secondary instance of OBS!

That means some other copy of OBS is already running and is consuming system resources. Make sure OBS only runs once.

And:

21:54:29.114: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 32629 (16.3%)

This means your stream doesn't have enough upload bandwidth. What is your internet upload speed? It may be used up by other persons in your household or by other programs on your PC, in case your upload seems enough.
You set a bitrate of 2400 for that stream, got 16.3% dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth, so you actually sent with a bitrate of about 2000. If your internet upload speed is actually 2mbit (2000kbit), you cannot stream at higher bitrates.