Streaming problem

[Wubshu]

So I saw a couple of similar posts, but couldn't find the answer to the problem I have been having. I apologize if this has been solved elsewhere.

Here are my pc specs

MOBO: Gigabyte Z370P D3

Cpu: i5 8400

Gpu: gtx 1060 6gb oc edition from Asus

Ram:16gb Gddr4 @2400mhz

Boot Drive: 250Gb WD Blue SSD

Storage: 1tb WD Blue HDD

OS: windows 10 x64

BIOS is up to date as far as I can tell

PSU: Thermaltake 500W white certified (I know I cheaped out here and am upgrading my psu)

 

 

So the problem I have been having is that when I stream, my game becomes super laggy and unplayable. It will go from 75-100 fps down to 20fps and back again constantly. I use SLOBS, but slobs tells me that my stream health is fine. No dropped or skipped frames detected. The thing is, this never used to be a problem. This just started happening very recently. I typically use NVENC encoder with a bitrate of 2500. I have tried the auto optimizer, I've tried user x264, nothing seems to work. I test my network speed and all seems good. But the game is still unplayable now, but not before. Any help would be appreciated!!!

[Srishunbagasundaran]

When i stream the usual source of frame drops/skips is stuff updating in the background or had just finished downloading/installing. Restarting my pc solves it.

[Wubshu]

yeah, I've tried that many times. Also thought maybe there was some sort of memory leak and completely shut down the system to no avail. And I  just want to clarify, my stream status is fine. It's the actual game that is having trouble, which is mirrored on my stream.

[Triventular]

try using just obs and see if the problem persists

[Wubshu]

So my system had a "critical" windows update on 02/13/2019. I performed a system restore to before that point and now seems to be working like before. I did a small test with the ?bandwidthtest=true method on Twitch and so far so good. I will have to test a full stream tomorrow to verify that it is working like it should. I'm going to hold off on hitting the problem solved checkmark until I am sure it is back to normal. Anybody else encounter this kind of thing with windows updates?