With the Steinberg, it’s the same device name and most likely address. With my USB headset, despite having the mic built in to it, the “speakers” and “mic” are showing up as different devices (named differently). OBS hates having the same device as input AND output. Been using something called Open Broadcaster for Twitch Streaming and Recording. I’ve been having this issue on both Win 7 and Win 10. The issue is NOT there when using my Plantronics GameCom 780 headset. In fact the issue manifests with Multiplatform JUST opened, doesn’t have to be recording / streaming. Issue still present when using multiplatform. I am seeing a CoreAudio.dll error in there. I’ve also uploaded the log from multiplatform 18-49-36.txt.
The hiccups came back when I opened regular OBS to check some settings. Yet for a great 10 minutes there I had no audio hiccups. Interestingly task manager shows that multiplatform taxes my cpu an extra 10% vs regular OBS. Managed to record without the “hiccups” and then they came back later on. Next step is to test with obs multiplatform and see what that does and if the issue is still there. With my Plantronics GameCom 780 headset (also on USB) I never got this issue and I don’t seem to have it now either (didn’t test all that much with that now as I want this new setup to work). I ran one of the latency tools available online and got a “this pc is perfectly capable to stream audio and video” result. I am detecting the issue by using the interface as a sound card so both for input and for output. I’ve tried all settings I could think of in the interface’s menu. I’ve tried to disable/enable all other sound devices. I’ve tried using both the latest and some older drivers for both the GPU and the interface. In the bios I have disabled all power saving features I could find. This happens on older games and newer games.I doubt it’s a situation of the system running out of available memory.
If using a downscale to 720p with 3500 bitrate it gets better a bit, but if streaming and recording at the same time the cut out appears once per minute.
Meaning that both the game’s audio and the mic’s audio get muted for a 1-3 second period.
When trying to record using x264 or nVenc at 1080p with a high bitrate (10K for nVenc, 6k for x264) I am seeing the following issue: Windows 10 (issue also present on Windows 7!)