Nothing I try seems to fix it and it's not watchable at all
https://clips.twitch.tv/MagnificentUgliestCheetahPeteZaroll
It always seems to happen more with fps

Does anyone know?

Probably your internet bandwidth. That's the usual culprit of pixelation while streaming. May be a buffering issue as well.

**edit* Is this something you're streaming to your computer or something you're straming from your PC?

It looks to me like insufficient bitrate. At a glance your video resolution seems to be 1280x720 at 30 fps and your bitrate is about 560 kbps. For this resolution (although at 60fps) youtube suggests from 2250 to 6000 kbps.

If you can't increase bitrate, can you reduce the image size? The game looks like it's in much smaller resolution to begin with.

You start a lot of threads which ask very basic technical questions.
You really need to learn a little bit about how computers and networks work.

This is by no means basic Wow you can tell the bitrate just from a video?
I went and checked and OBS says my max bitrate is 404kbs
The biggest resolution my computer can go is 1280x1024
I'll try out 2250, thank you very much =)

Can your internet connection support a stable 2.2 Mbps upload?

I agree that the bitrate is way too low but it could be an encoder issue as well, id make sure its set to h264 in the OBS settings (there is also at least x264 i think which is related but gave me worse results than h).

It's between 50kbs and 100kbs when I upload X264 is the only one it lets me pick
is H264 supposed to be in there too?

Peyote.

Then you won't be able to stream at more than 50-100 kbps (at best). You either lower your output resolution so that such a low bitrate looks acceptable, or you decide to record locally and then upload instead of stream.

Yeah 2250 makes the stream go instantly into the red with dropped frames
So you're saying I should lower my monitor resolution?

* Your monitor resolution does not affect the stream beyond having the game take less processing power (so that more is available for the video processing).

* Your internet upload speed decides how much data you can send per second.

* Your video bitrate says how much data you are trying to push per second.

* Your video output resolution decides how much data is required for each frame.

* While compression (such as h264) does lower the amount of data required for each frame, higher compression also gives a lower quality ("pixel blobs") because a lot of data has to be thrown away in order to fit within the constraints (your upload speed).

Given this information, you need to lower your video bitrate quite a bit, and in order to make the video look decent, you also need to lower the resolution.

Look at these example JPEG images, hey are of similar filesizes to represent the same bitrate. Notice how the smaller looks much better than the larger one? With the constraint of datasize, they both try to represent whatever detail should exist in the image, and since the smaller image has less detail by default, it's much easier. The larger image is more compressed. Now try to upload 25-30 of these each second with your internet connection, image quality will suffer in order to make that possible (I mean, you're not pushing 25-30 JPEGs each second, as video encoding takes the previous frames into account and only encodes differences, so there's some savings there, but you get the idea).

In your streaming application, you should be able to set the output resolution, and the application will scale the captured video as it is sent out to the streaming service.