Why Your Twitch Stream SUCKS (and how to FIX it)

There is no excuse for bad-looking streams or technical issues on Twitch anymore.

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0:00 Streaming Issues
0:40 Dropped Frames
3:00 Game Capture
5:00 GPU Overload
6:55 Performance & Encoding
7:36 Audio/Video Desync
8:17 Bonus Tools

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[GamingCareers]

shoutout to those of you with S Tier streams, but C Tier gameplay 🤝

[RealGengarTV]

The biggest issue with my stream is that.. it's my stream, I'm involved

[BenjaminGreenYT]

Pro tip, you can set OBS to automatically launch in Admin mode by default. Just to make sure you never forget to do it 🙂

[provolive]

Mate, stream is looking mint after watching this. Only just started watching you but I will def be tuning in regularly

[KaledYT]

My biggest problem with streaming is how to perfectly balance all the audios (Mic Volume/Game audio/Music) so you can hear them all nicely.

[uzman]

1:34 I come home after school and check your channel every day. I love you bro

[Kryptonightians]

so if i get an eithernet then my screen won't blackout all the time? i used wifi and it didn't blackout until a few months ago and then it blacks out all the time and says that it's not significant to broadcast gameplay too.

[OneBeardedBadger]

Ive burning question my pc is on the low end but can just handle the likes of euro truck sim 2 but obs when looking at task manager obs runs very high no matter if im capturing pc or console ive a 650 power supply would me upping to say a 850 watt improve that

[datbahami]

everytime i get my stream to stop lagging my game crashes in fps. any tips?

[WarDiePao]

Hi, Do you know how to fix the delay stream? I've got the delay stream and I can't find it and not knowing how to fix it.

[dgan]

Wow I am impressed I already knew all of these, I guess my programming background is coming in handy lol

[mrfuelsave]

i have dropping frames every time i enable replay buffer. any thoughts?

[HALFpastTOAST]

Never had an issue with my streaming system till recently. Halfway through my broadcast I'd look over to my obs and realise its frozen and disconnected from Twitch without me knowing. Think il run that analyser u mention and see whats going on.

[theboydouglas]

Pertinent point to me around the 06:00 mark! My stream is heavily animation and effect orientated and I have (or had) hundreds of sources. I was getting GPU overload last week and after some digging realised that my over ambition on this front was my downfall! As you say, OBS is catering for all the sources whether they're visible or not.

I'm a StreamerBot user and I'm in the process of massively reducing the number of sources (typically WebM's and sound files) that I have in my various nested scenes by getting StreamerBot to change the source file of between 1 and 4 sources in OBS as and when they're actually needed by different queues of actions. Needless to say - although I'm only say around a third of the way through reconfiguring things, I'm already seeing the positive effects on my stream. Reduced CPU and GPU usage - and no crashes!

Also great point about browser sources. For rather daft reasons (I'm not a techy!), I'd previously had several browser sources in different scenes doing similar things like showing User images for banimations etc. Now, I just have one in a nested scene that others then go on to use = significant improvement in memory usage. When looking at OBS in task manager this was the first thing that stood out like a sore thumb with browsers clearly consuming memory when they weren't even visible in OBS

[Adnansy]

you are the best man
i am a new streamer at twitch
choosing server at obs was the best for my ping issue while i was playing
thank you <3

[Ger]

0:17 that was lovely, adding salt to the wound hahahaha

[QQTs]

Didn't expect to learn anything since I've been using OBS since 2016 but log file analyzer? Huge help, thank you!

[Harley_the_Sosig]

To be fair anything twitch related is pointless as its a dying platform. they lost over 1B hours watched and the increase in hot tub tiddy streams has ruined the platform.

[Dorwulf]

Take notes people. This free information is rare nowadays as everyone's locking their info behind "skillshare" stuff

[Terrible_Hime]

dang, i already use and love epidemic but i wish i could get that sweet, sweet discount