Question / Help Streaming, got a frame drop and screen goes black of OBS

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AviateZone

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Streaming goes fine for a time, but randomly a frame drop appears and screen of OBS goes black. I press my hotkey for my scene and i get it to work again. But the same thing happens after a certain of time...

Here are my PC specs:
Intel i7 4790k 4.0 GHz, Turbo 4.4 GHz
Windows 8.1
MSI GTX 750 Ti OC Edition
Corsair DDR3 1333MHz 4x2
530W PSU

I am trying to fix the problem to change the settings a bit. I tried to change the x264 CPU Preset to veryfast instead of faster but it still didn't work.
My OBS Settings:
CBR: On
Max Bitrate 3500
Enable CBR Padding

1920x1080 16:9
Downscale: 1.50 (1280x720)
Filter: Lanczos
FPS 60.

x264 CPU Preset: faster
Keyframe interval: 2
CFR: Off
No custom x264 encoder settings

Here is the log file: https://gist.github.com/01f6cce829d226e39565

Thanks in advance.
 
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dping

Active Member
Does the scene go black out of no where or does it happen during a scene change?

a few things I noticed:
Code: 
Using anti-cheat hooking for game capture
you don't need anticheat hook with CS:GO.

Code: 
PERFORMANCE WARNING: Scene change took 13070 ms,
maybe some sources should be global sources?

Code: 
Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (2- Logitech G430 Gaming Headset)

Audio timestamp for device 'Microphone (2- Logitech G430 Gaming Headset)' was behind target timestamp by 23756673

device: Elgato Game Capture HD,
device id {39F50F4C-99E1-464A-B6F9-D605B4FB5918},
chosen type: UYVY, usingFourCC: false, res: 1920x1080 - 1920x1080, frameIntervals: 166666-166666
use buffering: true - 0, fourCC: 'UYVY'
audio device: Microphone (Logitech G430 Gaming Headset),
audio device id (null),
audio time offset 0,

The Performance warning started after you used your elgato. make sure it is a global source. but you also have your mic attached to the elgato but it is already used in OBS as your mic. conflict?

you also received the audio behind timestamp message right after your started your stream



I would also move your USB headset to a rear port and away from the elgato just to be sure they are on different hubs (put elgato on a 3.0 port?)
 
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AviateZone

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I removed the scenes i don't use anymore. So i removed the elgato. And the scene goes black out of no where. The headset is in the frontpanel USB 3.0. The elgato is also in a 3.0 port but in the motherboard. What also happens when my screen goes black, it has not selected a scene. If i go to the scene what i want to stream, it is selected. I also removed the anti cheat for csgo.
 
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dping

Active Member
AviateZone said:
I removed the scenes i don't use anymore. So i removed the elgato. And the scene goes black out of no where. The headset is in the frontpanel USB 3.0. The elgato is also in a 3.0 port but in the motherboard. What also happens when my screen goes black, it has not selected a scene. If i go to the scene what i want to stream, it is selected.
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So you have to toggle to fix? restart OBS and post another log since you cleaned out your scenes. plug headset to a USB 2.0 port.
 
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AviateZone

New Member
I have recorded one of the black screen moments and it seems that it fades to a black screen. So that means it is going to another scene but i can't find out what scene it is.
 
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dping

Active Member
AviateZone said:
I have recorded one of the black screen moments and it seems that it fades to a black screen. So that means it is going to another scene but i can't find out what scene it is.
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Make sure the scene switcher is disabled and double click on each scene and check it's properties to make sure that there isn't a hotkey set for any of them.
 
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AviateZone

New Member
Alright i am going to try it right now. But is the hotkey setting necessary? I have those on my keyboard macro's.
 
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