Question / Help Very Strange Disconnection + DayZ + Streaming PC

Tidy

Member
Hi Everybody,

Love the new forums :)

I have a strange issue, and I really don't know why its happening.

My setup is kinda strange, as I stream simultaneously to Twitch and YouTube. My streaming PC sends to twitch, and my gaming PC sends to YouTube. Slightly different streams (1 with music, 1 without)

My upload speed on testmy is 9.8mb - and I stream @ 2000kb/s from each machine (total 4mb thereabouts)


Problem

Its happened several times now, where my Twitch OBS (on the streaming PC) drops frames then disconnects and attempts to reconnect. Around the same time my DayZ game is also beginning to crash (on my gaming PC).

The only way I can stop DayZ to crash is to close out of it, and delete the local APPDATA for DayZ.

OBS (on the streaming PC) then magically reconnects and all is good again.

Now I know everybody at this point is saying its probably my connection.... BUT the YouTube OBS stream (on the gaming PC) is going strong and doesn't drop a single frame.

Traffic Management

My ISP does have traffic management between the hours of 8am-11pm - but the disconnection happens outside of this time frame - and once the appdata files are removed - it kicks back up again fine.

Other Stuff

CPU Usage on Streaming PC is fine, sits around 40%
Temperature is fine


I am at a total loss as to why its happening, why would a game on the gaming PC mess up the connection on the streaming PC?

I know DayZ has an issue with the messages it sends and receives - but surely that would then mess up the YT stream?

Log: https://gist.github.com/18323433ce47edb5443b


Thank you for reading :)
 

Lain

Forum Admin
Lain
Forum Moderator
Developer
Hm, strange, not sure I could give any theories. The crashing sounds very unusual as well, I'd suspect something other than network at that point.

That being said, If you happen to figure it out please let us know (I know probably not something you want to hear however).
 

Tidy

Member
Hi Jim,

It is a bit strange I agree lol - but here are my results from last night

I made some changes to my gaming PC before a 5 hour DayZ stream to see if I could pin point what's happening.

1) Disabled Anti Virus on Gaming Machine
2) Installed a bandwidth manager to limit DayZ's internet usage (set it to 500kb download limit / 50kb upload limit)

5 hour stream last night and no dropped connection at all, but did still have a couple of crashes.

I don't mind the DayZ crashes as such because a quick scene change in OBS and a game restart and away you go again - it was the dropped frames & disconnection that bothered me.

I will be streaming today (different game) to see if I still get any issues.
 
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