Howdy Fellow Surfers, or Sharks? Idk. Either Way I was wondering If anyone else has issues with OBS Studio and Surfshark. I am on a Windows 10 Device running Both the VPN and OBS Studio programs and With the In app Account Synchronization of OBS, You can Connect to the Chat, But with the VPN on It keeps Disconnecting and Reconnecting. With a message “Welcome the the Chatroom !” Occurring over and over. I’ve Made the decision I am okay with The App Bypassing the VPN and I just can’t seem to figure that out? Using the Bypass VPN Settings in the VPN App don’t seem to work. Does anyone else have any idea on how to remedy this?
Edit: Ahoy! I read the responses and it looks like there’s basically not much I can do lol.
Edit²: Ayo thanks for Silver mate.
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No idea if this is exclusively OBS, but the same happens on Twitch in general. If you enable timestamps in chat you see that these chat reconnects happen every minute, if there was no activity in chat. Streams with many users chatting these disconnects don’t occur. It was fine for a long time but this behavior started when “Nexus” was introduced. Haven’t found a solution for this other than not to use VPN while watching streams on Twitch. It’s annoying, because it can mean that you miss parts of conversations or an answer to a question you ask and, in worst case, you participate in a giveaway and then don’t see your name drawn because you are not in the chat for a bit.
Changing protocols, bypasser and other solutions don’t work for me. Only solution is not using VPN, which is not a solution for me.
The only workaround are to use browser extension of surfshark and bypass twitch.tv from there. The apps bypasser is kind of wonky atm
I use OBS streaming all the time. On my end using certain servers, I have not really had problems with the stream, but some games would disconnect me here/there. My boss, however, with the servers he prefers sometimes completely D/C and he has to start entirely over. Now, do not use “Rotating IP” in this case. It depends on the server’s ping and uptime. If the server you are connected to has a too high of ping it will lag, but some server’s IP also goes offline. Paid VPNs are around 99.8% uptime. That means you have a small chance of being D/C but for only about 2-20 seconds normally. You can chose to whitelist the OBS or stream URL, but you lose the encryption.
I wonder if this is on Twitch’s side when using VPNs in general. Do we know if any other VPNs act like this? If not I might consider switch to that.
I mean I can use this if I have my own chat open in a browser, I guess? But not with the application OBS. I guess this is technically a work around. But it’s a little annoying. I’ll have to try this out when I’m back home.
It didn’t show this behavior with Surfshark before Nexus was introduced. Also, the moment you turn off VPN and connect to Twitch with your native connection, with or without restarting the stream, the problem is gone too. So it has definitely to do with the VPN. If for other VPN provider show the same behavior, i don’t know.