slow down

Context: I'm an art streamer who works with Photoshop regularly, and I use an 11.5 inch Macbook Air from mid-2012, 8GB memory and 256 GB storage. I've been using OBS to stream it for several years now, and for the most part it's worked fine. But around April or May this year, it started...

I changed to a new laptop as the old one was obsolete. My new laptop has better performance in general terms except when using OBS. If I am recording my screen and audio output/input, it slows terribly down everything. The image is pixeled, the sound (output and input) is poor. The problem is...

I have an external camera I use to livestream to Facebook. I have the camera connected to an ezcap U3 capture box, and the box connects to my 2012 13in MacBook Pro. During my live streaming this morning, I got about 17 minutes in, and OBS started lagging behind! I have no idea whats wrong. Is...

When I open up OBS (Also happens when I'm not recording), and enter the game I am supposedly playing, the game starts to stutter, lag and slow down, and it's just a big mess. I have no idea what to do. Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/uH5AuvHw9jKHaH9c

So for weeks ive been streaming to YouTube with no issues at all. But lately My Friends & I have all been experiencing the same problem. As seen in the stream from last night. https://youtu.be/tgAwZwkeVhM About every 10 to 12 seconds there is a weird slow down/stutter of the entire stream...