#stream issues

[hedwigoprah]

I FIGURED OUT MY SOUND ISSUE WITH OBS

ahem

I’ll be streaming tomorrow night over on twitch at 7pm CST with actual sound this time and you won’t have to listen to my very excellent impression of Varric.

If you have time and just want someone to keep you company, I’ll be around ;)

[chahleybros]

Switching to Linux 🐧

Over the past couple years Windows 10 has been giving me progressively more asinine problems to deal with, from desktop issues and bloatware, to automatically installing out of date drivers to replace the ones I've manually installed.

Before you ask, I attempted using Windows 11 when it came out and I refuse to acknowledge its existence after the hell it put me through.

Most recently Windows 10 has seemingly made a point of making ASIO and all audio devices and software I use functionally useless, causing ridiculous amounts of crackling audio. No rollbacks fixed it, no re-installs fixed it, not even Reloading Windows fixed it. The reason for using ASIO is that Windows default audio protocol, WDM, has too much latency for live real-time use. This issue not only makes things like live-streaming basically impossible but it also outright made my Digital Audio Workstation and Video Editing Software incapable of processing audio for longer than a second without hanging. Both Mixcraft and DaVinci Resolve became useless on Windows 10, and OBS was barely holding it together. When I tell you I did everything to resolve this, I mean I spent an entire Month troubleshooting this. The only solution I could find was to abandon Windows all together.

I've been meaning to switch my Setup to Mint Cinnamon for a while as I've been testing it out in Virtual box for a year or so, and after this nonsense I got a new NMVe basically immediately to run Mint on, and after switching properly I have to say I'm likely to never use Windows as my Host OS again. And yes I tested Windows on the NMVe. The issue persisted there aswell. And testing Mint via Virtual Box on Windows with Hardware Exposed via PAE and AMD-V showed the issue was entirely on Windows.

For reference this is my current rig: Everything is the same as when using Windows 10

GPU: Nvidia RTX a4500 20gb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600g

Ram: 16GB 3200mhz

DAC: PreSonus Audiobox iTwo

Capture Card: AverMedia HD Mini GC311

The Results:

Not only does Mint Cinnamon not have any of the issues I've had with Windows over the past Decade, which still persist to this day, but literally every single device I have just works.

Basically everything is Plug-n-Play with <20ms of latency on the Capture Card, which on Windows had a minimum of 600ms delay using drivers required for the card to even be detected. My Audio interface also works even better than before, with neither my DAC or Capture Card requiring manual driver installs, as their protocols are Native to the Linux Kernel.

Proton lets you play any Windows game on Steam that doesn't have explicit Linux Support, with Wine available for desktop applications. Both run better than a Native Windows install due to Mints lack of Bloatware.

Windows 10 has so much built-in Overhead that Mint can Emulate it through Virtual Box faster than if Win10 were the Host OS.

In Short: Fuck Windows. :) Also this is how my desktop looks currently:

You can make custom start menus. :)

[streamdotpng]

Okay guys serious talk, imma be showing off two tablets that I'm planning to buy

First, we have my ko-fi goal

Buy XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro professional Display monitor Tablet direct online from official , Display are reaching 88% NTSC color accuracy ,

It's bigger, overall better but it costs like a hundred more plus only connects onto pc. I was planning to get this bc I thought it was my only option but I did more searching and found this

XP-Pen’s Artist 12 (2nd Gen) drawing display combines great looks, excellent ergonomics, impressive build quality, and class-leading feature

Which can connect to (hopefully my phone which is like honor x5) and pc, it's tinier in screen but it's alot more cost efficient being like 180 smth

So like, I'm doing thinking and my main issue is like

.. Idk these sizes, like I see the inches of the screens and I have nothing to compare them too

Man I just want a big screen (tired of drawing on my phone) that's cost efficient but I have no comparison to sizes at all 😭

[takofoodtruck]

Sadly, I've needed to pull my vods due to some issues, I'll probably leave them down, so next stream will likely be the first one to stay up, as long as any changes I make for next time work out well.

I'm hoping to get a better camera to help with the focus and lighting issues. It's VERY bright for my stream, but the cheap camera i have currently dumps the exposure. If I set it to manual, it winds up blowing out the color balance and highlights. If I lower the lights, it's too dim to paint well.

I should probably just bite the bullet and set up my good camera for video use.

[gremnda]

hello! my sister's dream is streaming on twitch but they can't do that unless they have a mic! please share this link around to help them achieve their dream<3

https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-mic-quit-working?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

[thykingdomcole]

Why do my wrestling streams always die at critical points? Fucking... ffff!

[honorvulpe]

Lol whoops

So can't fix the stream at the moment. I'll need to take my device over to tech support in the morning to fix my device. Pretty sure I overloaded it but we'll see.

[maysono]

No stream today, but..

So my OBS has been acting up and I have yet to figure out the issue, but I will be in @asinametra‘s stream playing what we planned on playing. I just won’t have my stream up. Once I figure out the problem, I’ll be streaming as usual! Here is a link to her stream if you wanna watch us when we start up around 4! http://www.twitch.tv/asinametra