My stream lags even though I'm not dropping frames, have plenty of upload speed and enough processing power (I think)
There is something fishy about my stream that I can't figure out. About half my viewers can watch my stream without issues but some report lags when they are not supposed to get lags.
A friend of mine, who has a 60/60mbps fiber connection, says the stream is buffering for 30 seconds, playing for 5 seconds buffering again and it does that constantly. I myself have experienced this on my laptop for my own stream even though and I too is on a 60/60 mbps fiber connection.
The past broadcasts on twitch look fine and are without visible lag so I suspect it might be issues on the viewers end but as mentioned I can't watch my own stream at times even though the past broadcast afterwards looks perfectly fine. OBS reports zero dropped frames even though I've been streaming for hours, and the upload light (in the bottom corner) is always green.
PC specs (snipped from my twitch profile so it might be irrelevant some of it)
CPU: Intel i7-3770K, OC'ed to 4 x 4.96 GHz
Video card: 2 x MSI GTX 680 TWIN FROZR III ED., 2 GB (SLI)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD55 MILITARY CLASS III
Ram: 4x4GB 1866 MHz, TRAUMATIZR Series
OS Disk: Samsung SSD 840 Series 250GB
Storage: Seagate ST1000DM003 1TB (x 3)
Sound card: Onboard (PRo Studio THX 7.1)
OS: Windows 8 Pro
Connection: 60/60 mbps fiber
OBS setup:
Resolution: 1080p downscaled to 720p
Downscale filter: Lanczos filter (Best details)
Framerate: 40 fps
Constant bitrate: Yes
Bitrate: 2 200 kbps
Encoding: x264 - Quality balance 10
Audio: AAC - 96 kbps
Twitch PoP: Frankfurt - DE (I'm located in Denmark, Frankfurt had the best traceroute compared to Stockholm and Amsterdam and it had better ping as well)
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Why is my stream lag even though I have good internet?
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