Stream keeps shutting down, have logs but not sure how to read them

squidn3ss

New Member
New streamer here! I've had nothing but problems with my stream since I started with streamlabs, stream shutting down without giving me an alert and I would have to close the app and start again. I recently switched to OBS to see if it would help. Did a stream on my test account and it seemed okay, but hopped onto my main and streamed this morning and it crashed almost immediately. It started up again but was iffy the whole time I kept getting the red square. I will attach my log, I recently installed a new capture card (elgato hd360s) but I don't know if it's my computer or internet failing me! I do internet tests and it seems to be solid.. Would appreciate any help, i've been so busy I haven't had time to post anything here.

https://obsproject.com/logs/QXeBp1K0_Y4MDgTG
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
OS issue - usually not desired but ymmv
09:04:11.377: Game DVR: On​
09:04:11.377: Game Mode: On​

You have a really old CPU (7 generations old) for this use case -computationally demanding real-time video encoding
Drop to 30fps, and even then temper your expectations. Make sure your OBS settings are ones that demand a lot of CPU
Yes you are using NVENC, but that has to be fed by the CPU

With that video card, the encoding may be ok, but you may have (I'm suspecting you have) maxed out the CPU and that is causing all kinds of instability

You have audio at 2 different sampling rates... not good ...best to fix

Dropping to 30fps may fix
09:12:15.187: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 567 (3.5%)
... though if CPU maxed out for an extended period of time, that might cause this instead of actual network issue

Best to research optimizing OBS and OS for an under-powered CPU
you may need to really simplify setup (ex. I don't know how much CPU noise suppression is consuming if you aren't using the nVidia RTX offload option), color correction
 
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