AFV and Streaming - Broken audio

[Luca Popp]

Good evening everyone.

I encountered an issue last saturday while I was streaming my adventures on TWR. Apparently my transmissions degraded over time (roughly 2h into the stream) to a point where the pilots reported broken up/robot like transmission whilst I could read them 5/5. Bandwidth shouldn't be the issue and my CPU was looking alright as well since I'm using my GPU for encoding - so I'm wondering what the cause of this could be?

 

To give insight into my setup, configuration and what was running at the time:

Specs: i7-4790k, GTX980Ti, 16GB RAM

Streaming configuration: NVENC Encoder h.264 (new), standard bitrate (6000kbps), 720p60 output

Programs running: OBS, Discord, TS3 (coordination), Spotify, AFV, Euroscope (2x), Chrome with about 60 tabs. Problem persisted after closing everything but OBS, TS3, AFV and both ES windows.

 

Thank you in advance.

Regards