Stream laggy as all get out?

First let me preface this with a THIS IS NOT A PLUG/PROMO OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

Now that that’s out of the way let’s get down to the nitty gritty of what I am experiencing.

If you go to this video I streamed a week ago

https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2647467245

It was decent quality and I didn’t have any dropped frames according to Streamlabs.

Fast forward to last night

https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2655725890

And Labs was telling me I was dropping 65% of my frames. I swapped to OBS and again same thing. Over 50% of my frames were dropping.

I never change setting in either Labs or OBS I leave them exactly as i had them when I found the “sweet spot” for everything.

I think the ONLY change I made was to camera scale. To see if I could get a more crisp image. But even removing my camera altogether gave the same percentage of dropped frames.

Between the first stream I linked and the last one the only changes I made to my PC was to download ARK to play that game with a friend and windows updates. That’s it.

Has anyone else experienced issues like this recently or know of a fix?

I am currently doing a system restore back to last Sunday to see if that might fix things. Will update once it gets done.